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Oct 2026
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Established in 2004, Leader’s Edge is the award-winning content platform for The Council of Insurance Agents & Brokers, covering legal and legislative issues, international business and regulation, management trends and best practices, technology, and more. Leader’s Edge is written and recorded for large and mid-sized commercial insurance and employee benefit executives around the globe.
In this episode of the Leader's Edge Podcast, podcast producer Zach Ewell is joined by Brady Kelley, CEO and president of the Wholesale & Specialty Insurance Association. The two explore the range of capacity and solutions available in the wholesale insurance market, emerging risks reshaping the sector, and how the business has evolved in the past five years.
In this episode of Politics & Risk, The Council’s SVP of Government Affairs Joel Kopperud sits down with Council President and CEO Joel Wood. With just over two weeks left before America’s midterm elections, Wood and Kopperud break down the key issues and races they’ve been keeping a close eye on this campaign season. Additionally, both share how next month’s midterm results could impact the insurance and healthcare industries as a whole.
The success of the second BrokerTech Connect conference validates the belief of its parent organization, BrokerTech Ventures, that it can be a convener of stakeholders across the insurance industry, says Mike Victorson, BTV co-CEO and CEO of M3 Insurance. The Chicago conference doubled in size in 2026, including insurtechs working with the top brokerages. This shows that BTV is no longer a startup but rather has a role in guiding the future of the industry, Victorson tells the Leader’s Edge Podcast.
Crawford & Co. is dedicated to ensuring that its institutional knowledge is passed from experienced claims adjusters to the younger generation, Chief Sales Officer Mark Cunningham tells the Leader’s Edge Podcast. That means establishing training programs that help replicate the learning that today’s dispersed and remote workforce would have gleaned in person at yesterday’s office. But it also means accommodating flexibility in older workers’ schedules rather than simply ushering them into full retirement, he says.
In this episode of the Leader's Edge Podcast, reporter Russ Banham discusses his October cover story on cyber-enabled cargo theft. From the container ship that blocked the Suez Canal in 2021 to today’s supply chain disruptions in the Strait of Hormuz, the freight shipping industry is no stranger to risk. But Russ’s feature examines an evolving version of an old threat–cargo theft from trucks. In today’s multibillion-dollar world of cyber-enabled larceny, criminal rings exploit digital tools to trick shippers, freight brokers, and motor carriers into unknowingly handing over valuable goods.
In this episode of our personal lines podcast series, associate editor Chris Hann sits down with Walid Nehme, Chairman at Associated Alliance. Nehme shares what it was like growing up in Lebanon during a time of war, how that conflict shaped him and his family into becoming more resilient, and how his love of mathematics led him into a career in insurance.
A string of high-profile art heists in France, as recently as early September, highlights the unique risks in holding these pricey pieces. Tyler Najeer, who specializes in fine arts and jewelry risk management for Gallagher, joins the Leader’s Edge Podcast to discuss the landscape for insuring high-value fine art and collectibles, and what exposures help enable these thefts. Najeer also shares his experience working in the brokerage space and how it’s grown in recent years to cover collections of Pokémon cards, Lego sets, and so much more.
In this episode, Leader's Edge speaks with Lance Malcolm, president of U.S. network solutions at Crawford & Co., about wildfire resilience in Europe and the United States. With wildfires scorching Spain and southern France this summer, and nearly 8 million acres burned in the United States to date in 2026, Malcolm draws parallels between the two regions’ exposure and building practices. He discusses decentralized U.S. building codes versus Europe’s national standards, shares why brokers should push clients to fortify their properties, and considers how fire response planning has evolved over the past several decades.
In this episode of our personal lines podcast series, associate editor Chris Hann interviews Jennifer Hill, Vice President and Operations Director at Harmon Dennis Bradshaw, a partner with Higginbotham. Hill shares how a college major switch from accounting to risk management set her on an unexpected path into insurance, stories from her formative years breaking into the industry in New York City, and so much more.
The new chair of The Council of Employee Benefits Executives (CEBE), Kenneth Olson, joined The Council of Insurance Agents & Brokers Vice President of Government Affairs Audra Jackson for a discussion during the 2026 Employee Benefits Leadership Forum. CEBE is the executive committee that guides The Council’s government affairs team in benefits-related advocacy and policy decisions. Olson, vice president of EB growth at brokerage BroadStreet Partners, discusses his priorities as CEBE chair, the “frustration and anger” over healthcare affordability and the complexity of change that would bring it in line, and the qualities he looks for in new industry talent.
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