Description: Creating an effective team is core to actuarial transformation. This involves establishing teams with jobs that line up to achieve the company's goals, with clear roles that engage people and enable them to develop. Coupled with this, effective teams need to harness the benefits of diversity. This is done both directly and through sponsorship and allyship to ensure that the full benefit of diverse teams can be realized with multiple viewpoints and perspectives strengthening teams. During the sessions, the speakers will draw on their experiences from around the world on, building global and diverse teams. By attending this session, you will:•Be able to gain insight on the benefits of embracing diversity when creating an actuarial team across the globe, and how sponsorship and allyship in workplace foster an inclusive environment.

Description: Learn to master leadership, communication and teamwork during the Soft Skills in the Quantitative Field webcast. While actuaries work in a technical field, discover ways to implement creativity into professional settings. The second portion of this webcast focuses on technical skills. Determine best ways to utilize time management for deep work, while also concentrating on knowledge exchanges between colleagues with different perspectives and areas of specialization to increase satisfaction. Explore how both soft and technical skills can challenge the actuarial perception standpoint and which will be least vulnerable to automation in the future.

Description: "Given the typical career trajectory of an actuary starts with increasing technical skill, we often overlook developing our communication skills, much to the determent of our overall career growth and business effectiveness. The only way that our work turns into business action is through communication, and business action is the sole purpose of our analyses. Come explore several ways to communicate more effectively by developing an understanding of our audience and what their “win” is, focusing on developing impactful messaging and outlining clear action, and how networking, especially broadly across the organization, can help us communicate more effectively. After this session you will be able to: Understand your audience and tailor your communication appropriately Develop clear messaging and explanations and deliver next steps Understanding how broadening your network can help you communicate more effectively"

Description: Join our expert panel of three influential actuaries with diverse backgrounds for a dynamic seminar on mastering trust-building strategies that will transform your personal and professional life. In today's rapidly changing business landscape, trust has become more crucial than ever before, affecting everything from relationship-building to team dynamics and organizational culture. You'll leave ready to elevate your leadership impact and influence, both in and out of the office.

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: 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: 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: 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: "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.”"