Future of Risk

Future of Risk

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Future of Risk episodes

  • Hurricane emergency response plan tips

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    Minisode: When’s the best time to create an emergency response plan? Before hurricane season. The second-best time? Now! A step-by-step recovery plan can help you get your business up and running faster and lessen the impact for you, your employees and your customers. Here are some tips to get you started.

    5 min
  • Flexible working: not if or when, but how

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    “In late 2019, 87% of HR leaders said that flexible working was a focus for them in 2020, and boy, were they right about that! – Lauren Mason, Mercer

    Flexible or hybrid work arrangements have been brewing for some time and accelerated last year. What does this mean for businesses? And is checking in with your employees a nicety or a necessity? Find out in our conversation with Tracy Lampert, Head of Employee Experience & Culture at Zurich North America, and Lauren Mason, Senior Principal and U.S. Flexibility Solutions Leader at Mercer.

    39 min
  • Kidnap & ransom: AKA “sleep good at night” insurance

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    We’re eager to get back to traveling, too! Face-to-face interactions with partners and customers is important to any business. But what should you consider before stepping on the plane? We talk to Will McAleer, President of World Travel Protection Canada, Nicola White, Director of Control Risks, and Cody Griffin, US Head of International Casualty at Zurich North America about why K&R (kidnap and ransom) coverages are like Fight Club, watching what you put on social media, flooded hotel rooms and more.

    30 min
  • Making D&O work for you

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    The question isn’t “does your company need D&O?”; the

    question is “what’s changed?” This week, we talk to Brian

    Zink, Senior Vice President and Head of Management Liability at Zurich North

    America.

    21 min
  • Benefits of Resilience Infrastructure

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    Building to the latest

    resiliency standard can save your business money. Earlier this year, Ben Harper

    is Head of Corporate Sustainability at Zurich North America spoke to

    congressional subcommittee hearing about investing in resilience and mitigation

    earlier. This week, he sits down to talk to us about the importance of

    resilient infrastructure for businesses and the U.S.

    19 min
  • How and why you should deconstruct your business’ supply chain

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    Special episode: Alban Laloum interviews Chris Snider, Head of Risk Services, Zurich Canada and Jennifer Fortunato, Risk Engineering Manager, Construction, Zurich North America, to discuss the impact of the ongoing pandemic on supply chain risk and lessons we’ve learned in this past year on how to manage and mitigate it.  

    28 min
  • What is social inflation?

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    Social inflation. It’s a catch-all phrase that describes the recent trend of increasing loss costs in the lines of business where juries decide the value of claims. What contributed to this trend? We talk to John Shane, Senior Vice President at Zurich North America and Head of Staff Legal, Liability, Financial Lines, and Latent and Environmental Technical Claims.

    17 min
  • Do your employees feel like they belong?

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    Things every business should consider, no matter the size of their workforce: in office or remote, employees’ sense of belonging within the organization, the digital divide and more. With Laura Rock, Chief Human Resources Officer for Zurich North America.

    37 min
  • The challenges and benefits of remote interns

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    It’s May, that means…the interns are coming! This year, many of them will be working remotely. What are the virtual challenges (and benefits) for both interns and the businesses who hire them? Jessica Aguilar, Head of Talent Acquisition for Zurich North America, explains.

    26 min

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Future of Risk looks at the changing risk and resilience landscape with insights on the challenges facing businesses today…and tomorrow. Each episode, we invite leaders and subject matter specialists…