The GRID Podcast

Episode 9 - "LGBTQ+ allyship and pronouns"- Pride Month Special

Charlie Thomas — Thu, 23 Jun 2022 02:00:00 +0000

In this special 3-part series of The GRID Podcast, we celebrate Pride Month.

We are bringing together some of the LGBTQ+ community from within the reinsurance and insurance market, and asking them some insightful questions such as how companies can make themselves more inclusive to this community, whether HR boards should include a specific LGBTQ+ representative, and where they stand on the publicly publishing your pronouns debate.

A huge thank you to all of our contributors for taking part in this series:

Erik Johnson, Incoming Active Underwriter at MIC Global
David Anderson, Partner, Head of US Cyber at McGill and Partners
Theresa Farrenson, Customer Experience and Integration Lead at Aon
Adam Triggs, Chair of Pride and Allies at Lloyd's

And thanks in particular to Inclusion at Lloyd’s and LINK, the LGBTQ+ insurance network for all their help and support in bringing this podcast special together.

Episode 8 - "The importance of intersectionality." - Pride Month Special

Charlie Thomas — Thu, 16 Jun 2022 02:00:00 +0000

In this special 3-part series of The GRID Podcast, we celebrate Pride Month.

A huge thank you to all of our contributors for taking part in this series:

Erik Johnson, Incoming Active Underwriter at MIC Global
David Anderson, Partner, Head of US Cyber at McGill and Partners
Theresa Farrenson, Customer Experience and Integration Lead at Aon
Adam Triggs, Chair of Pride and Allies at Lloyd's

And thanks in particular to Inclusion at Lloyd’s and LINK, the LGBTQ+ insurance network for all their help and support in bringing this podcast special together.

Episode 7 - "True inclusion is driven by company culture" - Pride Month Special

Charlie Thomas — Thu, 09 Jun 2022 02:00:00 +0000

In this special 3-part series of The GRID Podcast, we celebrate Pride Month.

A huge thank you to all of our contributors for taking part in this series:

Erik Johnson, Incoming Active Underwriter at MIC Global
David Anderson, Partner, Head of US Cyber at McGill and Partners
Theresa Farrenson, Customer Experience and Integration Lead at Aon
Adam Triggs, Chair of Pride and Allies at Lloyd's

And thanks in particular to Inclusion at Lloyd’s and LINK, the LGBTQ+ insurance network for all their help and support in bringing this podcast special together.

Episode 6 - Celebrating LGBT+ History Month

Charlie Thomas — Mon, 21 Feb 2022 01:00:00 +0000

In this special episode of The GRID Podcast, we celebrate LGBT+ History Month.

The theme this year is The Arc is Long, which is taken from a Martin Luther King Jnr speech from 1968, in which he says, “The Arc of the Moral Universe Is Long, But it Bends Toward Justice”, reminding us that change, while it may take a long time, will happen.

Exploring the meaning behind that quote and where the reinsurance and insurance industry is today in its journey towards true inclusion for the LGBT+ community is LCP Partner Catherine Drummond who joins us for this special episode.

As well as being the founder of LCP’s LGBT+ network, Cat also sits on the Senior Advisory Board to LINK, the insurance industry’s LGBTQ+ network, and is a mental health first aider.

Episode 5 - Technology adoption and "the evolution or revolution?"

Charlie Thomas — Mon, 13 Sep 2021 09:00:00 +0000

In this episode of The Global (Re)insurance and Insurance Download (GRID) our expert panel focuses on technology. As an industry, we’re often lampooned for our lack of adoption of technology. Characterised as an industry where brokers carry leather-bound binders, beholden to physical inky stamps and fax machines, it’s fair to say we’re still seen as behind the times.

But those in the industry will know we’re slightly more sophisticated these days. Multiple efforts to move to electronic placing are finally gaining traction, enhanced by the enforced remote working nature of the past 18 months.

But is it more accurate to say we've undergone a technological evolution, rather than a revolution?