Description: This article addresses how to best use body language to one's advantage

Description: This article provides suggestions for boosting up your career in the new year including dedicating specific time slots to your goals which will ensure that you travel along your career path quicker and to more fulfilling destinations.

Description: The author provides strategies intended to hone communication skills.

Description: This article describes how we can choose to accept our setbacks in life and in our careers, or challenge ourselves to push through them.

Description: Learn to distinguish yourself from everyone else, starting with how you introduce yourself to networking contacts, hiring managers and executives.

Description: To be an outstanding leader, you must become a masterful communicator. Learn a number of simple yet critical steps to achieving that.

Description: In the Leadership & Development Section’s Leadership Inspiration Contest, entrants were asked to tell us what inspired them to be a better actuarial leader. Here is the winning entry from the “Defining Moment / Event” category.

Description: Business Writing by Dan Shinnick from The Stepping Stone Newsletter, July 2004, Issue No. 15.

Description: The author encourages actuaries to pay attention to their “soft skills.”

Description: In the insurance industry, machine learning models are increasingly used to make decisions that affect people's lives. In order to ensure that models are fair, they should be audited for bias. There are no hard and fast rules for bias audit; metrics that can be used to evaluate fairness vary depending on the context in which the model is deployed. In this session, we present a flexible framework that highlights key considerations in bias evaluation that can be adjusted to suit your process. In this session, we will learn about different metrics to assess fairness, discuss open source tools that can be used for bias audit, and walk through a case study.