Chris Hann
Hann is associate editor of Leader's Edge magazine.
Podcasts
Personal Lines with John Nelson
A conversation with John Nelson, Co-CEO, Warner Pacific
November 1, 2022
Lifestyle
John Nelson, Co-CEO, Warner Pacific
“It has been a 35-year college education for me, so it’s challenging in that...
November 1, 2022
Lifestyle
Rotem Iram, Founder and CEO, At-Bay
“The truth is, I trust my people more than I trust myself. So I give them a lo...
September 29, 2022
Podcasts
Personal Lines with Vinnie Hager
A conversation with Vinnie Hager, President, JGS Insurance, Holmdel, New Jersey
September 1, 2022
Lifestyle
Vinnie Hager, President, JGS Insurance, Holmdel, New Jersey
“I have no problem taking other people’s experience and adopting that for ou...
September 1, 2022
Podcasts
Personal Lines with Bill Johnson
A conversation with the founder, chairman and CEO of The Liberty Company Insuran...
July 20, 2022
Lifestyle
Bill Johnson, Founder, Chairman & CEO, The Liberty Company Insurance Brokers
“I want to be getting out of bed with passion every day because I love what I ...
July 19, 2022
Lifestyle
Jacqueline Roth, Director of Employee Benefits, Bolton
"If I keep recruiting people that look just like me, I'm part of the problem."
May 31, 2022
Podcasts
Personal Lines with Jacqueline Roth
A conversation with Bolton's Director of Employee Benefits
May 31, 2022
Podcasts
Personal Lines with Elizabeth Chrane
A conversation with OneDigital's Chief People Officer.
April 29, 2022
Lifestyle
Elizabeth Chrane, Chief People Officer, OneDigital
"I strive to do it all."
April 29, 2022
Lifestyle
Elisabeth Vogt de Weber, CEO, Protección Dinámica
“You must be grateful and do your work with passion and love.”
April 1, 2022
Lifestyle
Amy Steadman, Chief People Officer, Newfront
"I would accelerate the trajectory toward getting more diversity and women in th...
February 28, 2022
Podcasts
Personal Lines with Amy Steadman
Bringing you the conversations from our back page with Newfront's Chief People O...
February 28, 2022
Lifestyle
Renee Keen, CEO for National Personal Lines and Small Business Practices, McGriff
“I would say I’m a good problem solver, but I also think it’s being tough ...
January 18, 2022
Lifestyle
Matt Gardner, Founder & CEO, Patriot Growth Insurance Services
“The Latin and Greek roots of the word ‘patriot’ are both related to the w...
November 30, 2021
Lifestyle
Anna Ewing, EVP, IMA Subsidiaries
“I really believe we can only truly share from the basis of our own experience...
November 1, 2021
Lifestyle
Jen Weathersbee, VP/Executive Director, Claims & Risk Management Services, InterWest Insurance Services
"I think we’re working hard to change the stereotype for young people coming i...
September 30, 2021
Lifestyle
Aimee Kilpatrick, COO, BXS Insurance
“I think they know if they need me I’ll be there, but I want to give them sp...
August 31, 2021
Lifestyle
McKeel Hagerty, President and CEO, Hagerty Insurance
“I think a lot about human needs and human nature, and I let the business come...
July 20, 2021
Lifestyle
Joshua Motta, Founder and CEO, Coalition
“How can you learn anything new if you think you already know everything?”
June 1, 2021
Lifestyle
Michael Victorson, CEO, M3 Insurance
I miss people and human interaction and working on things and seeing the express...
May 2, 2021
Lifestyle
Pete Gruenberg, EVP, OneDigital
I’m looking for high performance, and I’m open to all sorts of ideas of how ...
March 26, 2021
Lifestyle
Toby Esser, Chairman, AFL Insurance Brokers
I think you have to have desire. It has to be that something that makes you run ...
February 28, 2021
Lifestyle
Bill Pridgeon, President, Hylant
I actually paid for my wife’s wedding ring by winning call-in show contests on...
January 19, 2021
Lifestyle
Bruce Denson Jr., President, Cobbs Allen
When I started, my goal was to do it for five years and then do something else.
November 30, 2020
Lifestyle
Florian Karle, CEO, Südvers
The emotion, the empathy, the dynamics of the industry. It’s really something ...
October 29, 2020
Lifestyle
Shawn DeSantis, President and CEO, Navacord
People do business with people they like and trust.
September 24, 2020
Lifestyle
Ricardo Rosenthal, Founder & Group Chairman, Makler
I’m always open to evolution, always. I learn every day.
August 20, 2020
Lifestyle
Taylor Rhodes, CEO, Applied Systems
The art of leadership is being worthy of followership.
July 9, 2020
Lifestyle
Isabelle Cadignan, Commercial Director, Howden Broking Group
I’m interested in people becoming better than me.
May 26, 2020
Lifestyle
Tarun Chopra, President and CEO, Clements Worldwide
I feel the immense responsibility of continuing the Clements legacy.
April 27, 2020
Lifestyle
Kyle Lingscheit, CEO and President, PayneWest Insurance
The best part of being a leader is you have the ability to create an environment...
March 27, 2020
Lifestyle
Gautam Boda, Vice Chairman & Managing Director, J.B. Boda Group
I’ve always felt, in any business, but more particularly in the people busines...
March 1, 2020
Lifestyle
Ed Page, COO, Relation Insurance
Having fun at what you’re doing is core to creating success and making life en...
January 15, 2020
Lifestyle
Dina Daniele, SVP/Marketing Manager, Graham Company
Stop fighting battles with people who are at war with themselves.
November 27, 2019
Lifestyle
David Becker, CEO, Cottingham & Butler
We all talk about being advisors to our clients, like great lawyers or accountan...
October 29, 2019
Lifestyle
Jeff Rodriguez, President & CEO, Brown & Riding Insurance Services
I spent a career as an insurance broker, but as CEO, 99% of the time my job isn'...
October 11, 2019
Lifestyle
Mary Beth Sullivan, President & CEO, Huntington Insurance
Leaders need to be lifelong learners, self-aware and be able to live to the valu...
August 20, 2019
Lifestyle
Lori Goltermann, CEO, US Commercial Risk & Health, Aon
With today’s fast-paced, technology-enabled world, work and
life are hard to s...
July 12, 2019
Lifestyle
Jamil El Bahou, Chairman, Silverbrook Holdings
Leaders come and go. It’s great ideas, better execution and long-term visions ...
May 23, 2019
Lifestyle
Keith Schuler, President & CEO, Interwest Insurance Services
We’re known as a last-minute industry. That has to change.
April 29, 2019
Lifestyle
T. Marshall Sadd, Co-Founder and Executive Chairman, Navacord
I get out of bed in the morning with a lot of drive to do things better today th...
March 27, 2019
Lifestyle
Jay Weintraub, Co-founder, InsureTech Connect; Founder & CEO, NextCustomer
It was such a great feeling to say, “I don’t care if I fail.”
March 1, 2019
Lifestyle
Rod Fox, Managing Partner & CEO, TigerRisk Partners
It's perseverance. It's the idea that anything's possible, so you should think b...
November 29, 2018
Lifestyle
Marty Hughes, Executive Chairman of the Board of Directors, HUB International
You really better understand what it is you're selling, and you better be able t...
October 31, 2018
Lifestyle
Kurt de Grosz, President, ABD Insurance and Financial Services
The BenefitPoint experience taught me a lot about building and running a company...
September 27, 2018
Lifestyle
Kathleen Savio, CEO, Zurich North America, Schaumburg
Always be on the lookout for opportunities. You can find them, and sometimes you...
August 31, 2018
Lifestyle
Kerry Finnegan, Senior Partner, Global Business Solutions, Mercer
Community health is a pretty important topic, the whole issue of health inequity...
July 18, 2018
Lifestyle
Matt Stadler, President, Marsh & McLennan Agency
My wife and I find humor in situations other people might find crazy.
May 22, 2018
Lifestyle
Elizabeth Krystyn, Founding Partner, BKS
We have made a conscious effort to recruit the best person for the job, and that...
April 30, 2018
Lifestyle
Ross Buchmueller, President & CEO, PURE Insurance
This business is a journey without a destination.
March 27, 2018
Lifestyle
Kate Armfield, COO, AHT Insurance
I didn't want to be just the boss's daughter.
February 28, 2018
Lifestyle
Andy Vetor, Executive Vice President, Employee Benefits, MJ Insurance
I tell people in some ways cancer is the best thing that ever happened to me. It...
January 24, 2018
Lifestyle
Dave Eckroth, CEO, Parker, Smith & Feek
We always say we don’t do easy very well.
November 30, 2017
Lifestyle
Tim Prichard, President, Wells Fargo Insurance
Move quickly and adjust your approach based on how others react.
October 27, 2017
Lifestyle
Jason Smith, President, TrueNorth Companies
The only thing I'd rather be doing-and I say this with a smile on my face-is be ...
October 2, 2017
Lifestyle
Robert Kestenbaum, CEO, York International
My main goal was to control my destiny.
August 31, 2017
Lifestyle
Heather Steinmiller, SVP and General Counsel, Conner Strong & Buckelew
When I told Hillary Clinton she was my inspiration for doing the work I do…she...
July 18, 2017
Lifestyle
Jenn Walsh, Senior Vice President & Partner, Woodruff-Sawyer & Co.
They’re like, “What? You have what going on?”
May 25, 2017
Lifestyle
Bret Quigley, Chairman and CEO, Prime Risk Partners
I was the kid who had the lemonade stand.
April 27, 2017
Lifestyle
Bruce Dunbar, Chairman, McGriff, Seibels & Williams
The potato gun has been the featured event at a number of our sales retreats, mu...
March 29, 2017
Lifestyle
Steve Hearn, CEO, Ed
We respectfully retired Mr. Cooper and Mr. Gay. Then it was, “What do we call ...
February 27, 2017
Lifestyle
Marty Rhodes, President & CEO, Stephens Insurance
I was exposed to diverse cultures at an early age. Learning their customs, tradi...
January 31, 2017
Lifestyle
Jon Loftin, President & COO, MJ Insurance
I'm wide open, maybe sometimes to a fault.
November 28, 2016
Lifestyle
Rob Cohen, Chairman and CEO, IMA Financial Group
It's very complex, regulated business. Like everything in life, change happens o...
October 24, 2016
Lifestyle
Brenda (Ballard) Austenfeld, President, National Property Practice, RT Specialty
Once I moved to Kansas City and began traveling, I realized how many opportuniti...
October 7, 2016
Lifestyle
David Howden, Founder, Hyperion Insurance Group
Remember, you can have anything you want in life, but you have to have everythin...
August 29, 2016
Lifestyle
Dan Gowen, Senior Vice President, National Practice Leader, Wells Fargo Insurance Services
Anybody who thinks they've got this figured out, they're kidding themselves.
July 27, 2016
Lifestyle
Dan Keough, Chairman & CEO, Holmes Murphy & Associates
It's not until adversity hits that you find out what kid of support you have aro...
July 26, 2016
Lifestyle
Rick Miley, Founder, President & CEO, BroadStreet Partners
It's very easy to get started on a project. It's very hard to finish.
May 2, 2016
Lifestyle
Jim Hays, Founder & CEO, The Hays Companies
Neil Armstrong was the most spectacular guy I ever met.
March 29, 2016
Lifestyle
Alan Jay Kaufman, Chairman, President and CEO, H.W. Kaufman Financial Group
I felt the company was devoting too much of its time to worrying about the publi...
February 23, 2016
Lifestyle
Tracy Bowden, Tracy Bowden, Managing Director, Alliant Agencies
MGAs are interesting businesses. I wish more young people would become intereste...
February 1, 2016
Lifestyle
Liz Smith, President, Assurance, Schaumburg
I gained a great deal of knowledge and had a bigger impact because of some of th...
November 30, 2015
Lifestyle
Tom Grealish, President, Henderson Brothers
We created one of the funniest buildings in America. I want you to know quotes f...
October 30, 2015
Lifestyle
Steve DeCarlo, CEO, AmWINS
We're geared toward being a 150-year firm, and therefore we are willing to inves...
September 23, 2015
Lifestyle
Matt DeFendis, Principal, DiBuduo & DeFendis Insurance Brokers
I just bought a guitar. If I told you where I bought it, you would laugh.
August 27, 2015
Lifestyle
Bon Vivant, Hacker, Bon Vivant, Troublemaker
You don't even need to have something I want. I do it because I can.
July 28, 2015
Lifestyle
Jon Trevisan, Senior Vice President, Director of Placement, National Human Capital Practice
We need to think more creatively about evolving our industry. Healthcare reform ...
June 1, 2015
Lifestyle
Hervé Balzano, head of AXA Employee Benefits
Working here in the U.S., you can feel the intensity, the vibration. People are ...
April 29, 2015
Lifestyle
Royce Cross, CEO, Cross Insurance
I think we're all Stephen King fans. First off, he put us on the map. He's been ...
March 25, 2015
Lifestyle
Travis West, CEO, Fringe Benefit Group
The business has changed so much in the past 20 or 30 years, but the people prob...
February 23, 2015
Lifestyle
Bob Hilb, CEO, The Hilb Group
Those of us who worked for Andy Rogal would run through the wall for the guy.
January 22, 2015
Lifestyle
Doug Hammond, Chairman & CEO, NFP
It's still a blast after all these years. I work with some of the most talented ...
December 1, 2014
Lifestyle
Steve Brockmeyer, President & CEO, Bolton & Company
I learned more from that than from any classroom. I learned about motivating peo...
October 27, 2014
Lifestyle
Natalia Zaborovska, Network Director, MAI CEE Group
The majority of employees in our office are ladies. It's interesting in the insu...
September 30, 2014
Lifestyle
Alex Lintner, President & CEO, Vertafore
I think if you have a passion, that's what gives you an edge.
August 28, 2014
Lifestyle
Nancy Mellard, EVP and General Counsel, CBIZ Employee Services Division
One of my dreams would be to play golf with Condoleezza Rice at Augusta. Could y...
July 22, 2014
Lifestyle
Rod Cruickshank, President and CEO, The Partners Group
I've learned I need to get out of their way, to give them the freedom to go do w...
May 29, 2014
Lifestyle
Shaun Shaun Hooper, President and CEO, North America, Cooper Gay Swett & Crawford (CGSC)
We're not a commodities trader. We're not an investment banker. Those are things...
April 25, 2014
Lifestyle
Kurt Carlson, President, Propel Insurance
My wife is like, “We are not taking this car.” And I said, “We are so taki...
April 1, 2014
Lifestyle
John C. Roche, EVP, The Hanover Insurance Group
Authenticity in your leadership style requires a certain level of humility, some...
March 1, 2014
Lifestyle
Steve Needle, President, Employer Services, the McCart Group
I have a passion for it. Maybe the right term is sickness. It is not a job—it...
January 28, 2014
Lifestyle
Tom Riley, President & COO, AssuredPartners
As the agency ownership ages, we would like to be one of the answers to their pe...
November 26, 2013
Lifestyle
Jonathan Beach, Founder and Chairman, Beach & Associates
I discovered all the guys you grew up with relatively late in life—Faulkner, M...
October 30, 2013
P&C
What Are the Odds?
A lone wolf extremist has the best chance of destroying lives and property.
October 1, 2013
Lifestyle
Johnny Pitts, Principal/Owner, Lipscomb & Pitts Insurance
When I travel abroad and I say I’m from Memphis, I get a blank look. Then I sa...
October 1, 2013
P&C
The Face of Evil
Extremists among us threaten our government and individual citizens.
September 30, 2013
Lifestyle
John Murray, President & CEO, Rose & Kiernan
I play bad guitar. A lot of that ’70s era—Marshall Tucker, Charlie Daniels, ...
September 1, 2013
Lifestyle
Tim Byrne, Vice President and Partner, M3 Insurance Solutions
I’m not as conservative as they may think. I have very good friends in the Peo...
July 15, 2013
Lifestyle
Mitchell Andrews, Partner, the Plexus Groupe
Every day I am exposed to a different way to be successful. It never ceases to a...
May 22, 2013
Lifestyle
Lisa Hawker, Executive Vice President, Employee Benefits Practice Leader, The Hylant Group
I’m a total tree hugger. I have a degree in biology and did master’s work in...
April 22, 2013
Lifestyle
Mark Drummond Brady, International Chairman for Risk & Insurance, Jardine Lloyd Thompson Group
If you ask me who’s on my list of heroes, John Lennon is probably at the top.
March 11, 2013
Lifestyle
New Age Retirement
Not ones to settle into their rocking chairs, these executives prove the right a...
March 8, 2013
Lifestyle
Scott Trofholz, President & CEO, Harry A. Koch Co.
The difference between good and great isn’t that much. A little extra effort c...
February 27, 2013
Lifestyle
Eric Leavitt, President, The Leavitt Group
I wandered past a sumo competition. The organizer grabbed me and said, “You ar...
February 2, 2013
Lifestyle
Bill Henry, CEO and Chairman, McQueary Henry Bowles Troy
"I don’t think young people realize how many different industries you get to i...
December 12, 2012
Lifestyle
Andy Cassidy
I went to school with Edmund Muskie’s daughter. In high school I worked at a ...
November 15, 2012
Lifestyle
Claudia Mandato, Executive President, Lockton
I’m a biker chick. People have a hard time figuring that out.
October 1, 2012
Lifestyle
Kerry Drake, Regional President, BancorpSouth Insurance Services/President and CEO, Wright & Percy Insurance
Know when to shut up. People lacking confidence talk too much.
September 12, 2012
Lifestyle
Peter Lynch, President, Lexisnexis Insurance Exchange
This industry is built on sales, products and underwriting. There’s not enough...
July 10, 2012
Lifestyle
Bob Klonk, President and Chief Sales Officer, Oswald Co.
My management style? Driven. I don’t settle for second best.
June 12, 2012
Lifestyle
Hope Aldrich, President and CEO Eastern Insurance Group
We’re not beholden to stockholders. We’re beholden to our customers, our com...
May 8, 2012
Lifestyle
Jose da Fonseca, President, MDS Holdings
In 1971, I went to Paris, Amsterdam and Brussels. It was incredible. It was like...
April 10, 2012
Lifestyle
Bruce Schlesinger, Chicago Insurance Executive
While I am self-taught and not formally trained, I find being in the kitchen a b...
January 11, 2012
Lifestyle
Elizabeth Demaret
An AIG Starr Scholar, I came out of college and went to work at Cigna’s traini...
December 1, 2011
Lifestyle
Personal Lines - David McGurn Jr.
She told me to be nice to people as you work your way up the ladder because they...
November 1, 2011
Lifestyle
Kevin Davis, President, Kevin Davis Insurance Services
I originally took a class in a standup comedy because I wanted to improve my pre...
October 1, 2011
Lifestyle
John Hahn, Co-founder, Edgewood Partners Insurance Center
Don’t focus primarily on shareholder value. Create a great business culture fo...
September 1, 2011
Lifestyle
Richard Canter, Chief Operating Officer, SKCG Group
I had a window-washing business that became so successful the local mob asked me...
January 1, 2011
