Leaders Blog

Be among some of the best of the best as a 2023 NAIFA award recipient. Don’t miss this opportunity to nominate yourself or a colleague to be recognized by the one and only association covering the entire insurance and financial services industry. Award winners will be honored at the Belong Awards Ceremony at NAIFA’s National Leadership Conference on December 3-5 in Washington, D.C. The deadline for awards is only 4 weeks away on August 31st.

We would like to recognize the following leaders for their participation in April Grassroots regional meetings during the second quarter of 2023! Be sure that your state attends our leadership calls to obtain the most current information. In order to accommodate schedules, leaders have the option to participate in one of three calls each month. Thanks to the chapters who were active participants in Q2. #NAIFAproud

California: Peter Buechler
Colorado: Katelyn Dain, Randy Ball
Idaho: Guy Stubbs, Garth Hassel, Emmalee Robison 
Illinois: Dennis Dean 
Iowa: Barry Delp
Kansas: Mike Holmes
Michigan: Kay Harless
Mississippi: Lee Owen
Missouri: Craig Wright
Montana: Dan Rust 
Nebraska: Mike Struebring, Michael Herring
Nevada: Neal Waters
New Mexico: Lynda Turner 
North Dakota: Kim Albert 
Oklahoma: Charlie Potts
Oregon: Kym Housley
Texas: John Wheeler, Jason Talley
Virginia: Tim Westerman

Join NAIFA Treasurer, Brock Jolly, aka The College Funding Coach, on Thursday, August 17th at 2 pm eastern as he provides some best practices to put in place so your clients can send their children to college AND still be able to retire. There's no time like the present to start planning a NAIFA watch party or inviting a non-member to watch virtually!

There are only six short weeks before the 2023 NAIFA award deadline on August 31st. Don’t miss this opportunity to nominate yourself or a colleague to be recognized by the one and only association covering the entire insurance and financial services industry. Award winners will be honored at the Belong Awards Ceremony at NAIFA’s National Leadership Conference on December 3-5 in Washington, D.C.

It's summertime and what a great time to celebrate the Red, White, and Blue? We've updated some graphics for chapters to use for social media cover images. If you have not already ordered an Advocate, Educate, Differentiate pull-up banner for your chapter, we've updated that too! Our numbers were strong during Congressional Conference and our new banner showcases our strength in numbers!

Membership, Membership, Membership! We all want to see NAIFA grow and we would be thrilled to see our chapter executives receive their membership growth bonus this year. NAIFA will be providing chapter leaders with some additional lists this week to help your efforts.

NAIFA's Governance Committee is currently accepting applications for the 2024 NAIFA Board of Trustees and/or Secretary through August 1, 2023.

NAIFA members who sit on the National Board of Trustees are either nominated and approved by the Governance Committee or appointed by the Committee. Members typically rise through the chairs at the local and then state levels before being selected to the National Board of Trustees.

We would like to recognize the following leaders for their participation in IFAPAC regional meetings during the second quarter of 2023! Be sure that your state attends our monthly calls to obtain the most current information. In order to accommodate schedules, leaders have the option to participate in one of three calls each month. Thanks to the chapters who were active participants in Q2. #NAIFAproud

Alabama: Jay Stubbs
Alaska: Andra Holmstrom
California: Michael Mares, John Nilmeier, Louis Brownstone, Alvin Parra
Delaware: Tony McDonald
Florida: Tom Henry, Scott Bunkers, Tom Ashley, Joseph Chalom, Scott Bunkers
Georgia: Debby Evans
Hawaii: Cynthia Takenaka
Idaho: Guy Stubbs
Illinois: Sara Decatoire, Dennis Dean
Indiana: Jim Hardee
Iowa: Barry Johnson, Wendy Speckerman, Craig Adamson, John Raley
Maine: Lisa Laliberte
Massachusetts: Mike Elcock, Mark Male, Connell Tarr, Joshua O'Gara
Michigan: Kay Harless
Minnesota: Corey Anderson
Mississippi: Priscilla King, Demetrius Bryant
Missouri: Benjamin LeCroy
Nebraska: Todd Gaswick, Joe Pittmann
Nevada: Jarod Morgan
New Jersey: Kris Dickson, Dan Irizarry, Dennis Cuccinelli
New Mexico: Edward Dunn, Lynda Turner
New York: David Schnall
North Carolina: Janice Stevens, Elie Aharon
Oklahoma: Dick Porter
Oregon: Paul Hagemann
South Dakota: Jennifer Soma
Texas: Bianca Alonso Weiss, John Wheeler, Joey Ussery
Utah: Tim Johnson
Virginia: Elizabeth Pate, Andrew Holt, Stephanie Sheridan, Cody Schoonover
Wisconsin: Laura DeGolier

We are #NAIFAproud to see so many watch parties popping up as members come together as one NAIFA Nation each month for NAIFA Live. Let us know about your watch party for July by completing the simple reporting form at the bottom of the NAIFA Live website. We will recognize you from our pre-broadcast slides. You can always watch NAIFA Live from your office or catch it on demand.