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  • Defining Your Brand: It's the Little Things

    Defining Your Brand: It's the Little Things This article is about the little things that impact your personal brand, and how that personal brand helps you influence others. By Mitchell ...

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    • Authors: Mitchell Stephenson
    • Date: Jul 2024
    • Competency: Communication; Leadership; Professional Values; Relationship Management
    • Publication Name: The Stepping Stone
    • Topics: Actuarial Profession>Competencies; Actuarial Profession>Entrepreneurism; Actuarial Profession>Management skills; Actuarial Profession>Mentoring; Actuarial Profession>Professional development
  • Chairperson’s Corner

    Chairperson’s Corner This article is an overview of the SOA Leadership & Development Section Council's current projects, recent accomplishments and some immediate focal points of the Leadership ...

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    • Authors: Lori Weyuker
    • Date: Sep 2023
    • Competency: Communication; Leadership; Relationship Management
    • Publication Name: The Stepping Stone
    • Topics: Actuarial Profession; Actuarial Profession>Management skills; Actuarial Profession>Mentoring; Actuarial Profession>Professional development
  • What Would You Do? Responses to “Are Reserves Too High?”

    A compilation of reader responses is presented to a real life situation involving a business decision. This issue’s case study involved a recently promoted chief actuary receiving pressure to make ...

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    • Authors: John West Hadley
    • Date: Aug 2025
    • Competency: Communication; Leadership; Professional Values; Relationship Management
    • Publication Name: The Stepping Stone
    • Topics: Actuarial Profession; Actuarial Profession>Best practices; Actuarial Profession>Code of Conduct; Actuarial Profession>Standards of practice; Financial Reporting & Accounting; Financial Reporting & Accounting>Statutory accounting
  • Senior Executives: What ARE They Thinking?

    Senior Executives: What ARE They Thinking? At the 2004 Annual Meeting, four industry leaders, David Atkinson, Patricia Guinn, Bruce Nicholson, and Salim Manzar, shared their insight on a variety ...

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    • Authors: Daniel L Shinnick
    • Date: Jan 2005
    • Competency: Communication; Leadership>Influence; Relationship Management
    • Publication Name: The Stepping Stone
    • Topics: Actuarial Profession>Management skills
  • How Great Leaders Provide Leadership

    How Great Leaders Provide Leadership This articles showcases the principles of effective servant leadership. Alternative careers;Globalization;Professional development=PD;Interpersonal skills; ...

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    • Authors: Marcel Schwantes
    • Date: Nov 2016
    • Competency: Leadership>Change management; Leadership>Influence; Leadership>Mentoring; Leadership>Professional network leverage; Leadership>Thought leadership; Relationship Management
    • Publication Name: The Stepping Stone
    • Topics: Actuarial Profession>Best practices; Actuarial Profession>Competencies; Actuarial Profession>Entrepreneurism; Actuarial Profession>Management skills; Actuarial Profession>Professional development; Actuarial Profession>Standards of practice; Actuarial Profession>Traditional careers
  • What Would You Do? Bad Grooming

    What Would You Do? Bad Grooming 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 ...

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    • Authors: John West Hadley
    • Date: Jul 2019
    • Competency: Communication; Leadership; Professional Values; Relationship Management
    • Publication Name: The Stepping Stone
    • Topics: Actuarial Profession; Actuarial Profession>Best practices; Actuarial Profession>Ethics; Actuarial Profession>Management skills
  • Are You an Empowering Leader?

    Are You an Empowering Leader? 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 ...

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    • Authors: Russell Hendel
    • Date: Sep 2023
    • Competency: Communication; Leadership; Relationship Management
    • Publication Name: The Stepping Stone
    • Topics: Actuarial Profession; Actuarial Profession>Best practices; Actuarial Profession>Management skills; Actuarial Profession>Mentoring
  • How to Recruit and Hire High Quality Actuarial Talent

    How to Recruit and Hire High Quality Actuarial Talent This is the first installment of a two-part series that aims to provide valuable insights on how a new (re)insurance company can become an ...

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    • Authors: Rahat Jain
    • Date: Jul 2023
    • Competency: Leadership; Professional Values; Relationship Management
    • Publication Name: The Stepping Stone
    • Topics: Actuarial Profession; Actuarial Profession>Mentoring; Actuarial Profession>Professional development
  • The Stepping Stone, July 2019, Issue 72

    The Stepping Stone, July 2019, Issue 72 July 2019 issue of The Stepping Stone by Leadership & Development Section. practical information for actuaries, trends that impact section, section ...

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    • Authors: Society of Actuaries
    • Date: Jul 2019
    • Competency: Communication; Leadership; Professional Values; Relationship Management
    • Publication Name: The Stepping Stone
    • Topics: Actuarial Profession
  • Book Review: The Progress Principle

    Book Review: The Progress Principle Brief summary of a timely book on increasing workforce engagement. 4294995352 2/1/2013 12:00:00 AM ...

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    • Authors: Joseph Paesani
    • Date: Feb 2013
    • Competency: Leadership; Relationship Management
    • Publication Name: The Stepping Stone