Actuarial careers can be personally rewarding, in multiple ways. If you also want to:
please join us for this webinar with Fiona Hathorn, CEO of WB NexGen Directors.
Fiona will share some of the latest thinking to help increase your chances of winning 'stretch' promotions. She'll explore why adding a board or committee appointment to your CV is an excellent way to draw attention to, and validate, your capabilities.
Individuals who join boards, even of very small organisations, are able to use their experience and skills to influence an organisation. At the same time, they gain:
Fiona will outline the top seven reasons why being a director will benefit your career and will also explore your questions.
Bradley Shearer, FIA & CFA, founded Protagion Active Career Management to support professionals, including actuaries, globally to achieve their career goals through professional mentoring and coaching. He began his career as a finance actuary, and product and pricing leadership roles followed, allowing him to gain experience across insurance, employee benefits and pensions, and investments and wealth management. He is involved in professionalism skills training for the IFoA, its Skills and Domains Committee, and its Finance and Investment Board.
Fiona is an expert in the areas of governance, regulation and talent management and has sat on both marketing and audit and finance committees. Her professional background was as an equity analyst and angel investor, and Head of Desk for Emerging Markets and Global Equities.
Fiona also advises a number of different boards and organisations, including as an Advisory Panel Member for the Financial Reporting Council and an Advisory Board Member to Spktral (a technology company that helps organisations simplify the gender pay gap reporting process). She is also a judge for the Non-Executive Director Awards, sponsored by The Sunday Times.