Is it possible to become a  fluid speaker in German, English, Spanish or French within 200 hours of study?

Spoiler Alert: It is. 

In this episode of the Connecting Insurance Podcast, KASKO CEO and Co-Founder Nikolaus Sühr talks with Dominik Wexenberg, who lived studied and worked in different countries like Spain, England and France before coming to Mexico, where he currently resides. With a university background in ​​psychology, philosophy, sociology and linguistics and experiencing many different countries, languages and cultures first-hand, Dominik found his passion in teaching others languages professionally. Knowing languages can always be helpful for your career development

In this podcast, you can learn:

📌About Dominik and his approach to teaching busy people languages efficiently

📌 Common reasons why people fail in learning a new language

📌 Why language lives from the context

📌 Why only learning Vocabulary and Grammar will not necessarily make you fluent

📌 How Dominik's language learning system works

📌 Why memory exercise goes hand in hand with language learning

📌 Why it is easier to learn a language in a country and not in regular language class and how to "produce" the necessary environment for learning a language

#inspiration #language #learning #business #selfdevelopment

Astrid Bayer is Sustainability Officer at Provinzial and responsible for all sustainability-related topics since 2018. Not just in her business life but also in her private life sustainability is an important topic for her.

In the Connecting Insurance Podcast Astrid shares with Nikolaus Sühr insights about:

📌 More about Astrid, her background and reasons why sustainability is an important topic to her

📌 Why the insurance industry needs to move towards sustainability now and have a duty to tackle sustainability issues

📌 Where the insurance industry and insurers in particular have the power to positively contribute to a more sustainable world

📌 How sustainable investing works at Provinzial (ESG principles, exclusion criteria, ESG committee, investment policy/guidelines)

📌 “Quick wins” for sustainable operations (CO2, offices, employee benefits (last mile solution, perks, cafeteria))

📌 Sustainable concepts in terms of “product development”, and other sustainability approaches (e.g. ESG screening of corporate clients or approaches of Gothaer, HUK, Provinzial etc.)

📌 The roadmap to climate-neutral 2050 for capital investments and how to measure CO2 of investments

📌 Where sustainability is attached within the Provinzial company structure (Marketing & Communication (2018) vs. Risk Management (today))

📌 Consolidated losses and if they affect decision-making towards sustainability or away from sustainability (climate change as a factor)

#sustainability #insurance #insuranceindustry #insurer #versicherung #nachhaltigkeit #investment #sustainable

Marcel Walther is Senior Manager at EY Tech Consulting and considers himself an "Actuarial Data Scientist", as in his past he was both "an actuary and a data scientist. In the past, he helped Oliver Lang, former InsurTech CEO at wefox/One insurance, create the insurance playbook for the insurance unicorn. For him,  insurance is a data product - based on information and risk, that gives him the advantage of combining his two backgrounds and skillsets.  In this podcast episode, Marcel and Nick discuss and share details about product management, distribution channels and customer centricity in the insurance industry. Some topics that are covered are:  

Thomas Bischof is the CEO of Gothaer Allgemeine Versicherung AG and is responsible for the Property & Casualty (P&C) business. Karl Dienst is the Founder of Wegatech, a company that sells and installs Heat Pumps, Photovoltaics, battery storage systems, and e-charging stations that make its predominantly B2C clients self-sufficient in terms of energy usage. Recently Gothaer invested in Wegatech.

Oliver Lang has a history of working in the Insurance and InsurTech scene with 25 years of experience in the industry.

Coming from a background in consulting he founded several businesses (Sales & MGA's, insurers) and held a variety of positions with his last role being the CEO of InsurTech unicorn wefox and his new role as an advisor and part of supervisory boards of several companies in the insurance space, he is staying true to his two professional interests: Insurance & growth strategies.

Oliver has been a guest on the podcast previously, but in this episode, he and Nick discuss in detail Insurance distribution and Sales structures and how they will change through the progressing market consolidation.

Insights that are discussed are:

🔍 Background of the insurance distribution industry and the role of consolidation

Check out the Episode!

#insurance #germanpodcast #insuranceindustry #versicherung #versicherungsmakler #brokers #consoldiation

Zaid El-Mogaddedi is the Founder and Managing Director of the IFIBAF, the institute of Islamic and Banking.

Jonas Piela is InsurTech Management Consultant who also hosts the Digital Insurance Podcast, as a passion and side project. As his daily business, Jonas advises C-level executives and decision-makers from the insurance scene about a bandwidth of topics related to digital transformation and helps them develop strategies for today and tomorrow.

And if you are interested to find out what Nick would do in order to kick-start innovation at an insurer check out this episode and listen until the end 🙂

Fynn Monshausen ist Head of Department Digital Sales bei der Gothaer und Managing Director der Gothaer Digital GmbH. In diesem Podcast teilt er mit Nick seine Erfahrung einen digitalen Vertrieb für einen OmniKanalen Versicherer aufzubauen.   Themen die Fynn in diesem Podcast anspricht sind z.B.:  

Due to the good feedback on the 7th episode of our "Connecting Insurance Podcast" with Oliver Lang, former CEO of WeFox Insurance, we decided to do a spin-off about the "Switch Opportunity".

Welcome to our 7th Episode of the Connecting Insurance Podcast. As we are starting our collaboration with Oliver Lang, former ONE/wefox Insurance CEO, you might be curious to learn more about him.