Webinar - Emerging Risks : AI, Autonomous Vehicles and ESG Issues

• Have a general understanding of emerging risk
• Be aware of issues created and their impact on insurance
• Begin to identify potential insurance solution

• Use of AI
  • Implications for insurers
  • Use of AI by insurers
• Autonomous vehicles
  • Insurance implications
• ESG issues
  • Climate Change – new insurance solutions, reporting and mitigation
  • Well-being – employees, diversity
  • Social responsibility
  • Geo-political issues – effect on insurance

Trainer Biography - Nick Thomas

Nick offers a unique combination of skills in the UK insurance training sector – an industry sales specialist and a professional coach and trainer.

Nick is an Economics graduate with over 25 years corporate insurance broking experience. He was a highly successful sales producer in the UK broking market before progressing into regional and then national sales leadership roles.

As National Development Director at HSBC, Nick was one of only 40 people from a global workforce of 265,000 selected as part of the STARS programme to recognise exceptional performance. He is a highly trained consultative sales specialist, and his experience includes a secondment with a major management consultant to design a best practice sales process.

In the mid-2000s, Nick developed a chronic health condition; his journey to recovery fostered a new range of interests, and a passion for health, and performance. He studied widely, qualifying as a Master Practitioner in Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP), obtaining a Diploma in Life Coaching, before going on to study Corporate/Business Coaching with The Coaching Academy. Nick is also a qualified Holistic Lifestyle Coach and Advanced Exercise Coach.

Since 2018 Nick has worked in a self-employed capacity in training, coaching, and consulting, including within the Mergers and Acquisitions sector. In 2020, he founded Nick Thomas & Associates. Nick is in regular demand for podcasts and other media work. Visit LinkedIn or the company website for more information.

Nick Thomas & Associates – specialist training solutions to the UK Insurance Sector

Nick Thomas & Associates provides up to the minute training and coaching solutions with a particular focus on the challenges of the modern insurance professional, across sales, communication, and soft skills; technical insurance; customer service; management and leadership; performance, resilience, and health.

Nick Thomas partners with handpicked Associates, selected for their subject matter expertise, allied to first class training skills. All training programmes are designed specifically to align to client needs and delivery overseen by Nick Thomas.

Clients include major insurers and brokers, a major global Insurer ‘broker proposition’, broker network groups, insurance recruitment consultants, MGAs, Mutuals and the majority of the local insurance institutes across the country.

Contact Details

Email: nick@nickthomasassociates.co.uk

Website: www.nickthomasassociates.co.uk

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nick-thomas-64046113/

LinkedIn Company: https://www.linkedin.com/company/nick-thomas-associates/

Trainer Biography - Diane Jenkins BA (Hons), ACII, Chartered Insurance Broker

Diane has huge experience working with major Brokers across a range of roles and disciplines, to include: • Placement • Programme design • Training • New business • Client Servicing • Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) due diligence

Diane is now a highly respected trainer to the insurance market. Diane’s strength is in practical application of knowledge with specific specialisms including Business Interruption, Cyber and Property Owners. She is the Education Secretary and former chairperson of the London Business Interruption Association.

She was part of the IIL Advance Study Group - Business Interruption Policy Wordings and has collaborated with the authors of several Business Interruption textbooks. She is a member of the Cyber Insurance Association, and she carries out the insurance cyber policy reviews for Cyber|Decider (https://www.cyberdecider.com/)

Diane’s work includes delivery as an Associate for Nick Thomas & Associates.