Four Big “I" members were recognized for implementing cutting-edge technology, investing in recruiting and training top talent, and finding creative ways to position their agencies for long-term growth.
Earlier this week, Liberty Mutual and Safeco Insurance announced the 2023 Agent for the Future Award winners. Four Big “I" members were recognized for implementing cutting-edge technology, investing in recruiting and training top talent, and finding creative ways to position their agencies for long-term growth.
The Agent for the Future Awards celebrate the most innovative, forward-thinking, and digitally savvy agents and agencies. Here are the four Big “I" members that won awards:
Outstanding Agency Overall: Guaranteed Rate Insurance. In the last few years, GRINS focused on embedding insurance into the buyers' journey. The agency launched a digital insurance marketplace that allows customers to compare quotes from multiple carriers and integrated it into the mortgage process for their parent company. The API is also available to business partners to embed the marketplace into their point-of-sale systems.
Outstanding Large Agency: WalkerHughes Insurance. WalkerHughes Insurance has grown by nearly 40% every year for the past 10 years through a combination of organic growth and acquisitions. To identify like-minded agencies for acquisition, WalkerHughes' agency development team created a proprietary screen-scraping technology that generates reports from the websites of prospective agencies that align with what the agency is looking for.
Outstanding Small Agency: Camargo Insurance. Five years ago, the agency leaders at Camargo designed a long-term plan for growth. Camargo thought outside the box and adopted a strategy of fractional leadership and made diversity, equity & inclusion a key aspect of Camargo's operations and culture. As a result of the changes, Camargo experienced four consecutive years of more than 20% organic growth.
Digital Innovator: Ericson Insurance Advisors. After a year of development, vice president Kurt Thoennessen launched RiskRevu, an InsurTech platform with a library of smart forms to help agents gather data across service, sales and renewal transactions. RiskRevu helps agents streamline their data-gathering efforts so they can spend more time on interactions that add value to clients.
This is the sixth iteration of the Agent for the Future Awards, which have honored the most future-thinking, growth-focused independent insurance agents and agencies. Congratulations to all the 2023 Agent for the Future Award winners!
Will Jones is IA editor-in-chief.
