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With over 25 years in insurance and financial services, Clark Cesar brings a wealth of expertise from roles including life and annuities sales, financial representation, and brokerage management. Beginning his career in 1995 in Boston, Massachusetts, Clark's journey has seen him excel in various domains, from advising on retirement plans to his current position as a Sales Executive in group he...

Kassi O’Brien is a Champion for both Employee Benefits and Women in the Insurance Industry. A native of Kentucky, she grew up raising tomatoes used her chore of picking up and selling the tomatoes that were going to be thrown away for imperfections, showing early signs of entrepreneurship.   After graduating from Clemson University with a degree in Finance she spent time in Florida working in manu...

In a special 2-Part interview, Rod speaks to Jerald Tillman, LUTCF is the owner of JL Tillman Insurance Agency in Cincinnati, OH. A successful independent risk management firm that has served the community for over four decades. However, he is nationally known as the Founder of the National African American Insurance Association. A professional trade association committed to the professional devel...

In a special 2-Part interview, Rod speaks to Jerald Tillman, LUTCF is the owner of JL Tillman Insurance Agency in Cincinnati, OH. A successful independent risk management firm that has served the community for over four decades. However, he is nationally known as the Founder of the National African American Insurance Association. A professional trade association committed to the professional devel...

Chereace Richards is a wife, mom, author, award-winning entrepreneur, and "Million-Dollar Round Table" financial services professional. However, her story doesn't begin there. After completing undergraduate and graduate degrees in Computer Science and Information Technology, she began what was to be a successful career trajectory in the Federal Government until she and her husband we...

Irlande Audenier is an Insurance Executive and Professional based in Ft. Lauderdale, FL. Born in the Bahamas to Haitian parents, she immigrated to the US as a toddler in a large family making the difficult adjustment to a new life in a new country. Growing from a bullied young girl to an eventual prom queen, she learned how to bridge gaps between people and a source of positive influence as a teen...

Lincoln Baringer is the President of RhinoFin Consulting, a firm specializing in helping businesses understand and optimize strategies using voluntary benefits and offering education and resources to businesses affected during the COVID-19 pandemic to receive Employee Retention Tax Credits to recover revenue losses. However, before this, he was a young boy in Ohio dreaming of becoming a musician,...

Jelani Fenton is an 'Insurance Entrepreneur.' As the CEO of Safari, a career development and job placement insurtech company, he helps companies create diverse talent pipelines while connecting young talent to the insurance industry. As the new CEO & President of EG Bowman Insurance, a full-service insurance brokerage, he carries the torch of a legacy begun by one of the most legendary...

SPECIAL INNOVATORS EDITION! Kathy Conley-Jones, LUTCF is the Founder of Conley Financial Group in St. Louis, MO. A 40-year veteran of the insurance and financial services industry...she is a trailblazer, mentor, "IBA Elite Women in Insurance", and "NAAIA Lifetime Achievement" award-winning history maker following in the footsteps of iconic women entrepreneurs like Ernesta Proco...

India Brown is the CEO of India Insures and President of Legacy Leaders Financial Services. A woman-owned firm specializing in wealth transfer and income strategies for women business owners, single parents, young families, and non-profit organizations. Meet India Brown, the CEO of India Insures and President of Legacy Leaders Financial Services. Her woman-owned firm specializes in crafting wealth...

Bradley R. Everett is often described as driven by compassion and ambition, originally aimed to be a fighter pilot who eventually became a Top Gun in Financial Services. Graduating from Utica College of Syracuse University with a degree in Business and minors in Economics and Public Relations, he completed a Business Analytics course at The Wharton School. Bradley's professional career began a...

Patience Noah is the Owner and Principal of Patience Noah Insurance, a successful Full Service Insurance Agency in Framingham, MA. However, 20 yrs ago she was a young girl living in the villages of a war-torn, Liberia preparing to migrate to America and dreaming of working with the United Nations. A decade later she was an athlete & beauty queen preparing to graduate college. After getting hir...

Gerald Scruggs, Sr. is a 20 yr Supplemental Health & Financial Services Professional from Detroit, Mi, and Your Benefit Solutions, LLC owner. As a youth, he developed a strong work effort and an appreciation for earning his own way by working with his father at a community gas station. Eventually, he grew up to become one of the first Black Master Furriers in the country, before fate took him...

Terrence Blackwell is the Founder and CEO of Blackwell Legacy Group, a small business consulting firm. With a background rooted in hard work and strong values, Terrence started his journey at a young age, eventually pursuing a degree in criminal justice. After experiencing financial limitations in his career, he ventured into network marketing and found his breakthrough opportunity in a financial...

T. Priester, the President of NOBLE Insurance Solutions in Atlanta, GA, is an industry professional with over 18 years of experience. A native of Brooklyn, NY, he grew up with limited professional options primarily only having rappers, athletes, and drug dealers, as role models of success. After high school, he spent four years in the US Marine Corps and after an injury was discharged and initiall...

Adam Woodford, M.A. is a Husband, Father, and Employee Benefits Consultant based in the Washington, DC area. A 15-plus-year career professional, he began his career after college on a Track and Field scholarship, with an insurance carrier and grew up eventually transitioning to employee benefits after a meeting with a colleague and learning about a career path that he never knew existed. Growing u...

Jason Murray is an Investment Advisor and Financial Services Professional in the New York Metro area. Over the course of his career, he has become a respected entrepreneur, author, and business trainer. He specializes in assisting individuals with launching, growing, and building successful businesses, leveraging his experience as a business development specialist in corporate America. Jason's...

Rafael Preciado is the owner of Skyview Financial Group and a Sr. Field Chairman with Hegemon Group International in Salt Lake City, Utah. A 12-year veteran in the industry and family man, he started after finding the industry through a friend. Growing up in a home with his mother and sometimes present father who was incarcerated much of his youth or in Mexico, his family had come to the US from M...

Johnny Nitafan owns Nitafan Financial in Mesa, AZ, and hosts the "From UNKNOWN to UNFORGETTABLE" podcast, and has established a successful career in the financial services and insurance industry in a very short amount of time. However, he was a young kid from San Diego with hoop dreams, playing in college, and he even started a clothing line at 18 inspired by his basketball heroes. Fully...

Natasha Dorsey is an accomplished executive with a Fortune 500 global insurance firm, where she serves as an Assistant Vice President and Health Benefits Consultant. With over 22 years of experience in the industry, she is a trusted leader and recognized expert in health and welfare benefits, long-term care insurance, HR consulting, open enrollment, health care reform, and disability insurance. Na...

Jason Rodriguez is the CEO of Prominent Insurance Services, A Wilmington, DE. based Property & Casualty firm. Growing up in Brooklyn, New York City, he dreamed of being a basketball player admiring legends like Magic Johnson. However, he noticed at an early age he had an entrepreneurial spirit and found himself very comfortable talking to people even taking turns in fashion and music. He event...

Keyon "Coach Keyon" Corniffe Sr. is a financial education specialist, mentor, and president of BShynas Legacy Financial, LLC. His goal is to help create millionaires across the country. In the last decade, he has educated thousands of individuals and families about financial goals and taught them to do the same. Before his success, Keyon was a single father working three jobs. Growing up, he saw h...

Quincy L. Branch is a family man, second-generation insurance professional, and CEO of Branch Benefits Consultants, Nevada’s most successful independent minority-owned insurance agency. Initially thinking he would be playing professional basketball after having high levels of success in high school and college, he took a detour after an injury to work with his father's agency and channeled his com...

Douglas Eze is a Certified Financial Fiduciary®️, a Wealth Strategist, Author, Speaker, and Philanthropist. As the CEO of Largo Financial Services and Chief Marketing Officer of American Classic Agency, he has spent the last 25 years building a career guiding clients in wealth and estate planning, while training others to do the same. In the process, his business has become a multi-million dollar...

Tina Carter is the owner of Carter Financial Strategies, a Financial Education and Retirement Strategies firm based in Long Beach, CA. Before becoming known as Ladee Tee, The Financial Bee, she worked as a Tax Preparer and in Healthcare working 10 hours a day for someone else's dream. After hearing about Financial Services as a way to grow her own financial education and help others to do the same...