Profiles of the 2022 Women in Insurance Leadership

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Digital Insurance has named 12 honorees for this year's Women in Insurance Leadership award, recognizing women who demonstrate innovative and managerial excellence in the insurance industry.

This is an expansion for the award, which up until now had honored 10 women per year. With more women achieving leadership roles over the years that we've been running the program, we felt it was an appropriate time to expand the cohort. DI also named six Women in Insurance Leadership: NEXT honorees, recognizing the next generation of leaders who will continue the industry's digital transformation.

But even though women have made great strides in reaching the upper echelons of insurance over the years, the pandemic upended the best-laid plans of many. As the workforce adjusts to everything from hybrid work environments to staff shortages, the networking and achievement that has spurred women's ascendance in insurance will look very different.

Our honorees have proven adept at navigating the early stages of this transition, while also taking important roles in the evolving digital transformation of the industry. They represent different lines of business and different functional roles, but share the common thread of representing the best of leadership in insurance's digital age.

Now, let's meet this year's honorees. In October, we'll post profiles of each of them within this gallery, on Dig-In.com, and in our newsletters. And join us and all our honorees in Chicago, November 8 for the Women in Insurance Leadership conference.

Monica Caldas

Deputy CIO, Liberty Mutual

Laurie Fitzgerald

CFO, retirement, Pacific Life

Robin Gordon

SVP, chief data and analytics officer, MetLife

Natalie Ho

VP, strategy and insights, global marketing, RGA

Becky Kennedy

SVP and COO, Everlake Life

Jennifer Kyung

Chief underwriter, USAA
Jennifer Kyung of USAA
Jennifer Kyung, vice president, property and casualty underwriting at USAA.
For her full profile, click here

Cheryl Lebens

President, personal lines, Grange

Wendy Peterson

Strategy and innovation director, Farm Bureau Financial Services

Heidi Sirota

Chief pet officer, Nationwide

Sam Tummala

Head of technology, U.S. and Canada, Beazley

Cissy Williams

EVP and COO, Protective Life

Mindi Work

SVP, chief of strategy, Symetra Financial
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Mindi Work, senior vice president and chief of strategy at Symetra
For her full profile, click here.