So you want to be a CEO? Build a company
5 November 2015The Insurance Institute of London's Young Members' Committee, in association with Ark Syndicate and Minova Insurance, held another of its popular Educational & Networking Programme events to an audience in The Insurance Hall on 5 November 2015.
Dane Douetil CBE, Group CEO of Minova Insurance, and David Foreman, Chairman of Ark Syndicate, talked through their career experiences and the challenges they faced along the way.
By the end of this lecture members will have gained an insight into:
- The necessary skills required to lead a small company/team and build it into a successful venture
- Some of the setbacks that occur and how to deal with them effectively
- What younger members of the industry can do today to ensure they have every opportunity to get where they want to be in the future, whether that means being the CEO or not
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The business case for diversity
Diversity can only be achieved if you are truly inclusive and to ignore this will gradually lead to firms becoming out of sync with current and prospective clients.
As an investment adviser, Robert Reid, Diversity and Inclusion Champion of the Insurance Institute of London, believes that to achieve the best investment result, without being in a constant state of tension, you need to be diversified and the client needs to be included in that discussion.