Description: A real life situation is posed involving a management, leadership, or other business decision, and readers are invited to submit their responses to "What Would You Do?" This issue’s case study involved an actuarial manager facing the potential resignation of a key employee.

Description: Joint Risk Management Section chairperson's corner, June 2023

Description: Expanding Horizons recently had the opportunity to interview Wenjun Zhu, the winner of the Society of Actuaries’ (SOA’s) third Actuarial Science Early Career Award.

Description: This article gives examples of good and bad prompts for actuaries to use when using large language models.

Description: Este webinar explorará el rol vital de los actuarios en Ecuador, abarcando su participación en el mercado asegurador y de medicina prepagada, y su influencia en la formulación de políticas públicas para los sistemas previsionales.

Description: Meet the authors of and learn about the contributors to the newly published e-book "Design Your Future with the Competency Framework." Presenters will share their personal reflections, stories and words of wisdom to bring to life the eight professional and personal competencies in the SOA Competency Framework.

Description: This is a press release unveiling the winner of the 2024 SOA Actuarial Science Early Career Research Award. This includes a bio of their previous accomplishments.

Description: Discover the "101” basics of project management including developing project plans, monitoring progress relative to timelines, facilitating meetings, communicating with the project team and stakeholders, and effective tools to support project management. There will be a focus on the type of technical work actuaries are often asked to manage, such as actuarial modeling projects.

Description: All actuaries are not created equal. Our personal brands are built through the various dimensions of ourselves. This session will cover the role of self-awareness, clarity of values, and consistent communication in establishing an authentic personal brand. We will also cover how to promote your brand and stay up with its evolution throughout your career.

Description: This webcast will focus on a multi-option approach to develop talent within your organization. We’ll talk about supporting a culture of growth, developing a growth plan, engaging support for that plan and leveraging your development work to advance your career. To the managers in the audience (and anyone who aspires to this role), engaging your talent is one key way to ensure retention, especially with high performing/high potential team members. Growth opportunities keep top talent engaged and motivated. We will cover the benefits of investing in talent development for the organization and employees and I’ll share some practical options for you, too. By the end of the presentation, attendees will be equipped with actionable insights to help them develop their own action plans, and managers will have their own insights around the importance of supporting these plans to retain their top talent.