Sandy Laycox

Editor in Chief

Laycox is editor in chief of Leader's Edge. Before joining The Council, she served as senior writer/editor for America's Essential Hospitals, where she co-launched an award-winning digital magazine and wrote a history of the association. Prior roles include producing corporate histories for The History Factory and editing best practice case studies in corporate performance at the Corporate Executive board. Laycox earned a bachelor of arts degree in history and philosophy from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a master of fine arts degree in creative nonfiction writing from the University of New Orleans.

Podcasts Preparing the Board for ESG

A discussion on litigation, D&O, board diversity and more.

January 24, 2023

Podcasts "I’m Never Going To Settle"

A conversation with The Council’s 2023 board chair Bob Klonk

January 17, 2023

Industry Relentless Pursuit

Q&A with Bob Klonk, Chairman and CEO, Unison Risk Advisors and Oswald Companies,...

January 17, 2023

Podcasts How I Got There

The personal and professional journey of Travelers executive Patrick Kinney.

December 6, 2022

Podcasts A Conversation with Amrit David, Managing Director at Barclays

Are we seeing a sea change in the way investors are evaluating insurtechs?

December 1, 2022

Industry Deal or No Deal?

Q&A with Amrit David, Managing Director, Barclays

December 1, 2022

Podcasts Characteristics of Leading a Human-Centered Culture

A conversation with with Warren Wright, Second Wave Learning, and Farzin Farzad,...

November 1, 2022

Brokerage Ops Building a Human-Centered Culture

Q&A with Warren Wright, Second Wave Learning, and Farzin Farzad, Critical Equity...

November 1, 2022

Podcasts An Eye on Tech-Related Investing

Q&A with Dave Miles, Founding Partner, ManchesterStory.

Sponsored By BrokerTech Ventures October 25, 2022

Podcasts Governor Chris Christie and the Art of Compromise

An insightful, mixed-bag conversation with the former presidential candidate.

September 29, 2022

Industry Can We Compromise?

Q&A with Governor Chris Christie

September 29, 2022

Podcasts The Future of Insurtech Is Female

Q&A with Kacie Conroy, Director of IT, M3 Insurance

Sponsored By BrokerTech Ventures August 24, 2022

Podcasts Premium Financing Goes Digital

Q&A with Nolan Steenberg, Solutions Engineer, FIRST Insurance Funding

Sponsored By FIRST Insurance Funding August 17, 2022

P&C Getting the Cyber House in Order

Q&A with Brian Fritton, Founder and CEO, Havoc Shield

July 19, 2022

Podcasts A “TurboTax” for Cyber Hygiene

Q&A with Brian Fritton, Founder and CEO, Havoc Shield

July 12, 2022

Podcasts Walking the Walk on ESG

A conversation with Joe Tocco, Chief Executive Officer of the Americas, AXA XL

Sponsored By AXA XL September 22, 2021

Brokerage Ops Counseling Through COVID

When the stresses of 2020 bore down on its staff, The Council turned inward for ...

August 31, 2021

Podcasts Tackling Healthcare Disparities

UnitedHealthcare’s chief consumer officer Rebecca Madsen shares what the insur...

July 30, 2021

Podcasts What Do Employers Want in Healthcare Reform?

Q&A with Shawn Gremminger, Director of Health policy, Purchaser Business Group o...

July 30, 2021

EBLF Value-Based Payment Edges into Employer Programs

Q&A with David Snow, Chairman & CEO, Cedar Gate Technologies

July 20, 2021

Health+Benefits Life Insurance to See Material Shifts

The life insurance industry has experienced more change in the last two years th...

May 3, 2021

Industry The Nourishing Force of Private Capital

Private equity’s whole job is to find and farm productive investments. The ins...

May 2, 2021

Podcasts Private Equity Infusion

Two experts break down the runway left in retail brokerage M&A, alternative acqu...

April 20, 2021

Industry Connecting the Dots

Q&A with Vikram Mansharamani, Author and Global Trend Watcher

February 28, 2021

Podcasts Global Trend Watcher Vikram Mansharamani

Talks five-year forecast on the global economy, U.S. politics, technology, cyber...

February 8, 2021

Podcasts Former FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb

On the vaccine supply and distribution, the future of the ACA, and drug pricing ...

February 2, 2021

Industry Michael Murphy

On what’s next for Donald Trump and the Republican Party, Biden’s cabinet pi...

January 20, 2021

Health+Benefits David Axelrod

On the future of the ACA, prescription drugs, pollsters, and whether Mitch McCon...

January 20, 2021

Industry It's Never Overt

A conversation with ABD vice president Ivoree Reinaldo about what it’s like to...

September 30, 2020

Industry Going Sideways

A conversation with economist Anirban Basu, chairman & CEO, Sage Policy Group

September 30, 2020

Health+Benefits Healthcare from the Infinite Perspective

Our conversation with Simon Sinek continues

September 1, 2020

Industry Are You Unencumbered?

A conversation with Simon Sinek

September 1, 2020

Industry Hearing and Being Heard

The search for a role in racial justice

July 8, 2020

EBLF The Business of Resiliency

A conversation with Simon Sinek

June 22, 2020

EBLF The Power of Relationships

This time has shed light on the importance of meaningful partnerships and reinfo...

June 17, 2020

Industry You Gotta Have Friends....

An important reminder of the power of collaboration.

May 31, 2020

Industry Committed to Exploring Risk

Changing an editorial strategy overnight is daunting, but we couldn’t ignore t...

April 27, 2020

Brokerage Ops Digital Relationships, Small Business, and Advising from Afar

Q&A with Amy Zupon, CEO of Vertafore

April 21, 2020

Brokerage Ops The COVID Diaries: Reflections from China and Italy

Q&A with Yichen Zhang, Assistant Manager, Global Networks, Continental Insur...

April 7, 2020

Industry Alternative Capital and Brokerage? Still Going Strong

Q&A with Amrit David, Managing Director in the Investment Bank at Barclays

April 1, 2020

Industry Tackling Climate Change: A View from The Hill

Q&A with Congressman Sean Casten of Illinois.

January 15, 2020

Industry Brokers Launch First Distribution-Focused Insurtech Accelerator

Q&A with Mike Victorson, president and CEO, M3 Insurance; Dan Keough, chairman a...

November 26, 2019

Industry RiskStream Collaborative Continues its Pursuit of “The Golden Triangle”

RiskStream Collaborative President Chris McDaniel offers exclusive update on con...

November 25, 2019

Industry We Gotta Get on It

From building trust through technology to addressing resilience and underinsuran...

July 23, 2019

Industry Get Lost in Leader's Edge

Our website is redesigned with storytelling at its core.

July 12, 2019

Health+Benefits Healthcare Hot Spots

A snapshot of federal and state healthcare payment reform proposals.

May 24, 2019

Brokerage Ops Five Minutes with Ben Fidlow of Willis Towers Watson

We sat down at RIMS 2019 to discuss how WTW's predictive analytics are moving be...

April 30, 2019

Industry Captives with Steve Bauman of AXA XL

We chatted with AXA XL's head of global programs and captive practice, North Ame...

April 30, 2019

Industry RIMS 2019 Goes Global

Q&A with Kristen Peed, corporate director of risk management at CBIZ in Kansas C...

April 30, 2019

Health+Benefits Addressing PTSD in the Workforce

Q&A with Dr. Teresa Bartlett, senior medical officer at Sedgwick

April 29, 2019

Industry The Risk Manager's Take

Q&A with Cindy Roelke, who has risk management responsibilities for all of Weste...

April 29, 2019

P&C Travel Risks: What Employers Need to Know

Q&A with Erika Weisbrod, director of security solutions - Americas at Internatio...

April 29, 2019

Health+Benefits Is Bigger Better?

Rob Edwards, chief external affairs officer at the University of Kentucky Health...

March 28, 2019

Industry We’re in the Money

Amrit David, managing director in the International Investment Bank at Barclays,...

March 28, 2019

Health+Benefits Welcome to The Shop

A glimpse of life inside a cultural and community hub that is making a differenc...

March 1, 2019

Health+Benefits 1984 or 2019?

Who’s driving the next evolution of healthcare data?

January 23, 2019

Lifestyle Pushing the Edge

For 15 years, Rick Pullen did things differently than everyone else, changing th...

November 30, 2018

Brokerage Ops Quiet Your Mind

Clear your head and lead in the moment: a Q&A with Kevin Davis.

August 30, 2018

Health+Benefits The Great Cost-Shift

Q&A with author and healthcare futurist Ian Morrison

November 30, 2017

P&C Developments in Puerto Rico

While much uncertainty remains, here’s an initial look at where losses might c...

October 30, 2017

Health+Benefits A Common Language

Q&A with Rod Cruickshank, President & CEO of The Partners Group

October 30, 2017

Industry Walk the Talk

Q&A with Zenefits Vice President of Carrier Relations Colin Rogers

October 20, 2017

Industry Stake in the Ground

Q&A with OneDigital Chief Growth Officer Mike Sullivan

September 26, 2017

EBLF Medical Exam

Tech-enabled transparency is a major step in regaining control of healthcare cos...

May 25, 2017

Industry VIDEO: Tough Minded In A Soft Market

Council members speak their mind on what it takes to succeed in today’s insura...

April 28, 2017

Industry How JUST Are You?

JUST Capital ranks the insurance industry.

February 24, 2017

Health+Benefits Dying While Human

The palliative care movement is better for patients, providers and payers

January 5, 2017

Health+Benefits Leader’s Edge Predicts NFL’s $1 Billion Payout

A landmark agreement between the NFL and former players is finally being settled...

December 15, 2016

Industry Uncertainty Abounds, Opportunity Exists

How will Fidel Castro’s death affect Cuba? Will Trump engage?

November 28, 2016

P&C Prescription Addiction

While money and misinformation fuel America’s opioid crisis, brokers fight to ...

October 26, 2016

Health+Benefits ColoradoCare at ILF 2016

2016 holds some critical state-level issues in play that could have a major impa...

October 12, 2016

Brokerage Ops The Marketing Mind

Using automation tools, marketers can harness data to drive new business.

July 26, 2016

Health+Benefits District Judge Rules Administration Is Illegally Reimbursing Insurers for ACA CSRs

Money troubles for exchange insurers?

May 16, 2016