Carly Burnham

Carly Burnham began her insurance career in 2004 as an office assistant at an agency in her hometown of Duluth, MN. She got licensed as a producer while working at that agency and progressed to serve as an office manager. Working in the agency is how she fell in love with the industry. She saw firsthand the good that insurance consumers experienced by having the proper protection. When Carly moved to Des Moines in 2010, she decided to commit to the industry, and she completed her CPCU in one year finishing it in 2012 and attending commencement in New Orleans. She completed her MBA at Iowa State University in 2014. During this time, she and Tony founded a Gen Y Associate Resource Group at Nationwide in Des Moines. After they had both left Nationwide, Tony recruited Carly to co-author and manage InsNerds.com. She has the difficult task of keeping his constant flow of crazy ideas focused and helping to flesh them out into useful articles. Carly enjoys sharing knowledge and ideas about the future of the industry and finds the website a good outlet for this passion. Carly is involved in the the CPCU Society Underwriting Interest Group. She also writes "Next Wave" a monthly column in the "Perspectives" section of Best's Review.

Insurance Nerds Stands With Black Lives Matter

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First, I must apologize for my silence over the past week. Insurance Nerds was created as a place to share career advice and shape the discussion around culture and education within insurance organizations. But, we have grown into a community of insurance professionals, and we have a platform that reaches many in our industry. Tony, … Read more

The Problem of Millennials

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Originally published by AM Best in March 2017 Recently, I’ve been seeing a clip of Simon Sinek, author of Start with Why and Leaders Eat Last, talking about the problem of Millennials in the workplace on an episode of Inside Quest popping up on LinkedIn and Facebook.  Sinek says Millennials have a reputation for being … Read more

ODN Expands Business Development Team

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In January 2020, ODN welcomed Lanaya Nelson to the executive management team to lead the company’s newly formed Customer Engagement and Marketing group. Lanaya brings nearly a decade of communications and marketing executive experience, most recently at the Lift Factor, an insurance industry-focused firm, and helped to advise the early growth of startup companies as the first … Read more

Transparency

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Originally Published In AM Best in May 2017 Generally, when I write about Millennials, I’m thinking of those of us in the industry and those who we are trying to attract as new talent. There’s a whole constituency that I don’t often devote much thought to. These are our millennial consumers. There are over eighty-three … Read more