The Kansas City, Mo.-based National Association of Professional Surplus Lines Offices, Ltd. announced the launch today of the NAPSLO Executive Leadership School, which will provide continuing education for experienced surplus lines insurance professionals.

The school's inaugural session is scheduled for February 8-11, 2009, in Charlottesville, Va., where senior-level members can learn leadership skills from business professors at the University of Virginia's Darden School of Business.

NAPSLO said the Executive Leadership School is designed for members of both NAPSLO and the American Association of Managing General Agents with 15 years or more of industry experience and who are at the top or close to the top of their respective organizations.

The curriculum, said NAPSLO, is planned to broaden perspectives on important social, political and economic issues influencing the insurance industry, and to enhance leadership skills so participants can more effectively manage change at the personal, team and organizational levels.

Gilbert Hine, co-chair of the NAPSLO Education Committee, said the goal of the school “is to create highly professional leadership for the future of our industry–leaders who develop the enterprise perspective required to make winning choices about running their businesses in today's complex environment.”

“The Executive Leadership School goes beyond the market knowledge and insurance expertise that the specialty lines industry is known for,” said Mr. Hine, who is also president of McClelland & Hine in San Antonio, Texas.

NAPSLO said the faculty was selected from the Darden School faculty to provide a framework for future success in strategically managing, developing and leading organizations.

Instructors will be:

o Alan Beckenstein, professor of business administration at the Darden School, who holds a doctoral degree in economics from the University of Michigan and has taught at the Darden School for 34 years in the areas of political economy, global competition, public policy, environmental management and quantitative analysis.

o Alec Horniman, professor of business administration and senior fellow, Olsson Center for Applied Ethics. Mr. Horniman is a consultant to industry in the area of organizational behavior.

o Sankaran Venkataraman, MasterCard professor of business administration. He is a member of the Strategy, Entrepreneurship and Ethics area at Darden and teaches MBA and executive level courses in strategy, entrepreneurship and ethics.

NAPSLO is a national trade association representing the wholesale specialty lines insurance industry that has more than 1,600 member offices in the United States

For information on the school, go to http://www.napslo.org/content/Meetings/ExecutiveLeadershipSchool/executive.htm.

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