Leader's Edge

Where is the first place to start when planning for 2021? According to Penny Moore, chief commercial officer of Springbuk: employee healthcare data. It’s there that brokers and employers can identify gaps in care, coverage and education. Listen in as Moore gives her take on the role of data analytics during a national health crisis that’s forced employers to pivot their companies and their employe...

: Hospitals contain a mix of employees, doctors, patients and caregivers, creating a challenging environment in which to manage risks. Cindy Van Asten, Partner, Director of Employee Benefits – Green Bay Market, and Chris Halverson, Risk Management Sales Director / Director of Disaster Response and Recovery at M3 Insurance sat down with Chris Woleske, President & CEO at Bellin Health to break down...

The manufacturing industry has been humming along, albeit at lower capacity, throughout much of the Pandemic. Kevin Clary, VP of Risk Management at Amerisure, helps us understand the risks, best practices, and lasting impact of the crises that manufacturers have to consider when thinking about insurance as Covid-19 lingers through the near future.

Will COVID-19 be a catalyst for tech adoption in our industry? What ever happened with blockchain? What new technologies are making their way into the industry? We caught up with George Kucera of Patra to find out.

Tim Koenig, assistant vice president of EHD, provides insight on how one of America’s most essential sectors, the manufacturing industry, has managed risk throughout the Covid-19 Pandemic. He explains the impact he has witnessed on his manufacturing clients and how he thinks they will approach insurance differently in the future.

In the midst of a pandemic, the demand for commercial goods has only increased. Chad Hoppenjan, assistant vice president of Cottingham & Butler’s Safety Management Services Company (CMS), explains how COVID-19 pushed the sector to adapt to new risks, and adopt new rules and practices. From extended hours and closed rest stops, to concern around driver-lounge sanitation, the demand for commercial t...

In the first episode of the Leader’s Edge Back to Work podcast series on how businesses from a variety of industries are approaching reopening, Rob Boyce, Market Intelligence & Insights director at The Council, interviews Terry McCann, managing director of RT Specialty – Chicago. As construction projects were deemed essential during the pandemic, the construction industry was quickly forced to cha...

Leader’s Edge sat down with Wamberg Genomic Advisors’ (WGA) Chief Innovation Officer, Darren Rowe, to talk about the innovation propelling WGA and how genomics promotes a more holistic view of patient health.

In 2019, Brian Comerford and Nick Lozano began publicly discussing their insights and struggles within the ever-changing world of information technology. Their podcast, Lead.exe, centers on the importance of leadership from a technology perspective. Comerford and Lozano get together twice a month to interview a wide variety of professionals, from radio personalities and SEO strategists, to rock an...

Dr. Keith Smith, co-founder, Surgery Center of Oklahoma and John Kirke, EVP of Employee Benefits, CCIG sat down with us to discuss the role of the free market in creating competition among providers, how employers are evaluating centers of excellence for their populations, and what’s at stake for patients.

Ryan Rice and Garrett Jerue of Prism Health Strategists share their path to pharma consulting, how PBMs are reacting to their fiduciarily-aligned service model, and how data analytics are driving their client relationships.

Ben Miller, PsyD, the Chief Strategy Officer at Well Being Trust, gives his take on the state of mental healthcare in the workplace. We talk delivery and payment reform, the “skimpy” options permeating the commercial market, and how to apply the concept of social determinants of health to the work setting.

We had the opportunity to chat with Leo Bernstein and Kevin Rabinowitz, executives from LineSlip Solutions. LineSlip is a cloud-hosted software platform purpose-built for the insurance industry that helps commercial brokers streamline critical broking tasks, including quote comparison and placement process. LineSlip is currently focused on streamlining panel business, but its custom approach is bu...

Q&A with Scott Robertson, Managing Partner, KPISoft

The Council Foundation’s 2018 Dave Oberkircher Future Leaders Scholar, Samantha Dever, shares her internship experience at the Marsh & McLennan Agency and what the scholarship meant to her at The Council’s 2019 Employee Benefits Leadership Forum.

Nick Bellanca, Executive VP, Sales & Business Development

Justin Oliver, Senior Director, Business Development for Employee Benefits, CyberScout Ann Barron-DiCamillo, Vice President of Cyber Threat Intelligence and Incident Response at American Express

Broker Buddha CEO Jason Keck discusses technology as a tool for solving administrative burdens for brokers and their clients.

Sandy Laycox, editor-in-chief of Leader’s Edge magazine, sat down with John Swigart of Pie Insurance and Jayant Lakshmikanthan of Clara Analytics to discuss their respective business models and their plans for the future. Pie Insurance is a small-business focused full-stack Managing General Agent (MGA) that has used digital advances to streamline the quote-bind process in an effort to confront the...

Q&A with Patrick Costello from Evolve MGA by A Council Platform - 868329

Keith VanderZanden of Advanced Professionals Insurance and Benefits Solutions sits down with The Council’s Katie Oberkircher to talk AHPs.

Interview with Mike Cormier, head of Sales and Business Development at Risk Match by A Council Platform - 868329

Andrew Robinson, co-CEO of Groundspeed Analytics, sat down with The Council’s Rob Boyce to examine what inspired Groundspeed Analytics. Through leveraging AI and machine learning, Groundspeed can turn unstructured data into structured data, allowing brokers to better understand their own book of business and offer clients tangible insights into their policies.

Indio provides a white label, open API platform to agents and brokers that seeks to streamline the application process by, for example, piping data across multiple policy applications so a client needs only to answer a question once.

The Council’s Senior Vice President of Strategic Resources & Initiatives, Cheryl Matochik, interviews Nick Shalek of Ribbit Capital. This podcast offers a unique view of insurtech investment through the fintech venture capital firm lens with a message brokers: get out in the action and engage; just monitoring won’t give you what you will need.