Sinopsis
COUNCILcast is a podcast series brought to you by The Council of Insurance Agents & Brokers. Sound insights and new perspectives for commercial insurance and employee benefits brokers. Hosted by Ken Crerar.
Episodios
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Manufacturing: Up and Running through COVID-19
13/07/2020 Duración: 14minTim 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.
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Drivers on the Road: COVID-19’s Impact on Commercial Trucking
02/07/2020 Duración: 25minIn 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 truck drivers has only increased. As commercial auto rates rise exponentially, will the current practices lead to an increase in efficiency?
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Reopening in the Construction Industry: Discussion with RT Specialty
24/06/2020 Duración: 20minIn 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 change its practices to stay operational. Terry McCann delves into just how the pandemic has affected the construction industry and the forms of liability construction businesses may face now.
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DNA’s Day in Employee Benefits
13/05/2020 Duración: 34minLeader’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.
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Talkin’ Tech
15/01/2020 Duración: 36minIn 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 and roll photographers. Leader’s Edge staff writer Zach Ewell sat down with them both to discuss how their joint interest in insurance and technology helped launch their popular streaming venture.
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Need Healthcare. Will Travel.
05/12/2019 Duración: 36minDr. 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.
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When Transparency Meets Pharmacy Consulting
04/11/2019 Duración: 27minRyan 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.
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What Employers Can Do About Mental Healthcare
21/10/2019 Duración: 25minBen 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.
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A Conversation with LineSlip Solutions
30/07/2019 Duración: 29minWe 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 built to automate “existing workflows,” not just limited to panels.
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Turning Analytics into Action
20/07/2019 Duración: 28minQ&A with Scott Robertson, Managing Partner, KPISoft
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Insights from The Council Foundation’s 2018 Dave Oberkircher Future Leaders Scholar
11/06/2019 Duración: 03minThe 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.
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How Genomic Medicine Is Evolving Healthcare
28/05/2019 Duración: 16minNick Bellanca, Executive VP, Sales & Business Development
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Surveying the Cyber Risk Landscape
28/05/2019 Duración: 21minJustin Oliver, Senior Director, Business Development for Employee Benefits, CyberScout Ann Barron-DiCamillo, Vice President of Cyber Threat Intelligence and Incident Response at American Express
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Leader's Edge Magazine Chats with Jason Keck, CEO of Broker Buddha
29/03/2019 Duración: 23minBroker Buddha CEO Jason Keck discusses technology as a tool for solving administrative burdens for brokers and their clients.
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Pie Insurance and Clara Analytics: Making Workers’ Compensation Easier for Small Businesses
28/03/2019 Duración: 17minSandy 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 issues small businesses typically have in securing coverage. Clara Analytics also operates in the Workers’ Compensation space and uses AI and machine learning to attack inefficiencies and reduce operational claims costs for commercial Workers’ Compensation.
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Q&A with Patrick Costello from Evolve MGA
07/03/2019 Duración: 15minQ&A with Patrick Costello from Evolve MGA by A Council Platform
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What’s Next for Association Health Plans?
21/02/2019 Duración: 11minKeith VanderZanden of Advanced Professionals Insurance and Benefits Solutions sits down with The Council’s Katie Oberkircher to talk AHPs.
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Interview with Mike Cormier, head of Sales and Business Development at Risk Match
31/01/2019 Duración: 18minInterview with Mike Cormier, head of Sales and Business Development at Risk Match by A Council Platform
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Groundspeed Analytics: An Origin Story
13/12/2018 Duración: 25minAndrew 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.
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A Conversation with Michael Furlong, Founder/CEO of Indio
16/11/2018 Duración: 17minIndio 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.