Description: The Emerging Leaders’ Summit is a new event designed for SOA young professionals. This virtual event will offer a full complement of engaging soft skill sessions including communication, leadership, team building, managing your brand, workplace relationships and professionalism. Join your colleagues to learn leadership skills with an actuarial perspective. Connect with others in the networking session and between sessions at the virtual hang outs. You will gain new knowledge to enhance your career, as well as meet new friends and peers.

Description: Come discuss the benefits and challenges of collaboration between academic institutions and industry stakeholders in shaping actuarial education and research agendas. Register for this event now.

Description: A compilation of reader responses is presented to a real life situation posed involving a management, leadership, or other business decision. This issue’s case study involved management hiring someone to make changes, then ignoring all suggestions.

Description: It is well established that empowerment of staff is a critical leadership trait. But what are the metrics to recognize that you have achieved it? What steps enable this achievement? Which psychological attributes explain its efficacy?This article proposes to answer these questions through a multi-disciplinary examination of empowerment in the context of three leadership domains.

Description: Actuaries advancing in their careers, leadership and influencing skills is essential. This webcast illustrates the challenges and methods of influencing in organizations using excerpts from a cinematic case study about a newly promoted senior manager in a large insurance corporation.

Description: Hear from three actuaries on their experiences working remotely in 2020 and beyond. Each participant will have a distinct viewpoint on remote work based on their situation, including: Liz Dietrich, who led her Prudential team through the initial shift to remote work during the pandemic and will address the team’s next steps. Amanda Hug, who joined Willis Towers Watson during the pandemic by interviewing remotely and then learned to integrate into the corporate culture the same way. Vincent Xuan, who will provide insight around how his team at Equitable adapted to remote work. During this webcast, the panel will share: Their perspectives based on their unique situations Best practices and leadership tips for managing teams and workloads remotely Thoughts on how we did as an industry with the shift to remote work Leadership skills that are critical for moving forward in a hybrid (remote and in-person) world

Description: July 2019 issue of The Stepping Stone by Leadership & Development Section. practical information for actuaries, trends that impact section, section activities.