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Insurance leaders address the industry's diversity challenges

'Across the country, people have finally acknowledged that the status quo is unacceptable,' says Janet Jordan-Foster with AXIS Capital.

The Wholesales & Specialty Insurance Association’s U40 group for young professionals recently sponsored a timely and topical panel discussion that illuminated the challenges and successes of the insurance industry’s diversity and inclusion initiatives. The Wholesales & Specialty Insurance Association’s U40 group for young professionals recently sponsored a timely and topical panel discussion that illuminated the challenges and successes of the insurance industry’s diversity and inclusion initiatives.

The event was part of WSIA’s 2020 Virtual Annual Marketplace and coincided with the organization’s announcement that it has formed the Insurance Industry Diversity Foundation (IIDF) “to promote and attract diversity in race, gender, sexual orientation and disability and to influence meaningful progress in the diversity of the insurance industry and its talent pipeline.”

The panel discussion, which is available as a webcast recording for WSIA members, launched with an introductory video in which several insurance industry leaders voiced thought leadership around diversity and inclusion.

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Elana Ashanti Jefferson

Elana Ashanti Jefferson

Executive Editor Elana Ashanti Jefferson is a veteran journalist and communications professional. She can be reached by sending email to [email protected]

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