Description: Risk is opportunity! Equipped with skills to analyze risks, actuaries are no longer limited to applying these skills solely within traditional actuarial roles. Listen in as the presenters share their career experience in a non-traditional role and provide insights on how being an actuary can bring additional value to the profession.

Description: In this compelling video, Jeanne Cho Stokke delves into the art of effective remote leadership. She eloquently explores the transformative potential of remote work, shedding light on its positive ipacts on team morale and personal well-being. She navigates through the challenges posted by remote work, offering invaluable insights and strategies to navigate and mitigate these obstacles, fostering a thriving and successful team environment. Contributors : Jeanne Cho Stokke, FSA, MAAA, Jon Forster, ASA, MAAA

Description: As organizations continue to reevaluate business needs and strategize how to best move forward in an evolving industry, technology and innovation are becoming competitive differentiators. Insurers are reimagining processes and accelerating modernization initiatives, and the role of the actuary is transforming in both scope and demand. It's vital actuarial leaders recognize the impact of modernization efforts on their employees, are empathetic to their needs, and create strategies to promote engagement, development and retention during technological transformations. Discover how leaders can prepare their teams emotionally and psychologically for change, gaining their buy in and support for new initiatives while increasing long-term loyalty. A panel of actuarial leaders who have successfully led their teams through change initiatives will also offer their lessons learned and best practices. Leave with the tools and insights necessary to take an empathetic approach to modernization that eases concerns and cultivates a productive and engaged actuarial team.

Description: Check out an overview of actuaries who started their own companies and discover more about their journeys. In this webcast, join Amanda who launched a few businesses, including a new supplemental health insurance company called Brella, an actuarial and strategy consulting firm called Turcotte Consulting and a brick-and-mortar local retail sore called Yarnia. Another actuary participating in this webcast is Puneet, a chief actuary of CDPHP. They launched Humbi Health, offering competitive intelligence analytics for plans, providers and drug manufacturers. Come explore how these actuaries succeed through the ideation, MVP, funding and launch of their businesses.

Description: Explore how certain actuarial roles should be reserved under defined benefit plans for more than 50 years during the Reserved Roles for Actuaries in Defined Contribution Plans webcast. This online event will be focused on actuaries and defined contribution (DC) plan actuaries and how they have been spotlighted by the pension industry due to their roles. Join us to discover which roles under DC plans could be reserved for actuaries by plan sponsors or through legislation.

Description: Covering is a strategy through which an individual downplays a stigmatized identity. It can take place in four common ways:

Description: "Stories have the power to change minds, and leading with facts and figures only hardens pre-existing opinions. Learn to leverage the power of story to effectively communicate with and enroll your stakeholders. Andrew Sykes, CEO, Habits at WorkAndrew Sykes is the founder and CEO of Habits at Work, an experiential sales training company on a mission to make sales the most trustworthy profession on the planet by empowering sellers to practice and embody the mindsets, skills, and habits that build and maintain customer trust. Sykes is a Lecturer of Entrepreneurship at Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management and part of the Kellogg Sales Institute Executive Education Team where he teaches the award-winning course “Entrepreneurial Selling.”"

Description: With seemingly unending demands on life & annuity companies for more intense and complex calculations, as well as greater sophistication around analytics, and all of this done at speed, never before has it been so important to seek out maximum efficiency in constructing models. In this session the panelists examine how the combination of various model efficiency approaches, pulling in many different facets of modeling and making it flexible enough to dial up or down various modeling components, can bring about incredible results. Not only does it become possible to produce and expand upon financial risk metrics via a building block approach, but also enables life insurers to produce analytics and dashboards to support strategic decisions that were simply not possible or cost effectively viable before.

Description: This session brings to life the popular series entitled 'What Would You Do?' in Leadership & Development's section newsletter The Stepping Stone. As in the newsletter, participants will be posed with a real-life situation and must answer the question 'What would you do?' Situations can vary (e.g. pricing/product focused, valuation focused, professionalism, etc.) with all including a leadership/softskills slant. Participants will be expected to provide their perspectives on the situation and what they believe will work most effectively.

Description: 2021 ImpACT Conference -Session 10A: Building Academic-Industry Research Partnerships 10.28.21 Recording