| James L.
Britt, CPCU, is a managing director in the insurance brokerage
sector. Jim spent his early career in agency and underwriting
management with a major insurance carrier. This was followed by
several years in the regional brokerage business before joining a
global brokerage in 1987. Jim has worked with governmental and
educational organizations from both individual and collaborative
program perspectives. His initiatives have included property and
casualty brokerage, benefits consulting, risk consulting, pooling,
and consortia. Other client industry experience has included
distribution, broadcasting, and insurance underwriters. In addition
to traditional placements and alternative risk financing for
domestic programs, he has implemented off-shore captive solutions.
Jim is an active speaker including presentations for the CPCU
Society National Leadership Institute, PRIMA, RIMS, and URMIA. Jim
is a graduate of the University of North Carolina. He also holds the
Chartered Property Casualty Underwriter (CPCU) designation from the
American Institute for CPCU. Jim has served in a variety of chapter
and Society leadership positions with the CPCU Society. He will
serve as president for the 2007-2008 Society year. Jim is an active
member of the UNC Educational Foundation and is a past member of its
Board of Directors. He has also served on the Board of Trustees at
Charlotte Christian School, and he is a member of United States
Masters Swimming. |
Bruce
Kawahara is co-founder and principal of BluOpal Consulting, LLC, a
coaching and consulting firm dedicated to guiding organizations to
achieve results by awakening the power in people. For more than 20
years, Bruce has brought his functional expertise in business
consulting, learning and development, sales performance, executive
coaching, competitive intelligence and organizational development to
a wide variety of public and private sector organizations. Since
co-founding BluOpal Consulting in 2002 with partner Michele Roden
Spruill, he has worked with hundreds of company presidents,
executives, managers and teams, helping them identify and accomplish
their business and life ambitions. By designing powerful strategies
to boost professional performance, Bruce has helped clients create
corporate leadership training and development programs, negotiate
and execute successful career transitions, and facilitate Boards of
Directors through strategic planning processes. His greatest
business strength—creating sustainable solutions that combine
vision, planning, operations/systems alignment and people
performance—allows his clients to more easily identify their
strategic vision; envision practical ways to achieve their goals;
and understand how to engage their workforce and inspire
performance. He makes the process fun by drawing on his greatest
personal strengths: turning ideas into reality, communicating openly
and directly, and focusing on building the capabilities of an
organization one person at a time. Bruce is a Professional Certified
Coach (PCC), an industry standard of experience from the
International Coach Federation. He also holds the Certified
Professional Co-Active Coach (CPCC) designation from The Coaches
Training Institute (CTI), the largest in-person coach training
school in the world. He formerly served as the co-chair and vice
president of the Iowa Coaches Association, a chapter of the
International Coach Federation. |
Dale
Sanders, Certified Business Continuity Professional (CBCP), has 18
years experience in Information Technology and 30 years in emergency
management and public safety. He has used his experiences to help
develop Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery plans for several
Des Moines companies. Dale is the Disaster Recovery Specialist for
Iowa Health System and oversees their Business Continuity
Program.
Joe Solem, ABCP, is an IT manager
for a worldwide manufacturing company. Joe has spent more than 30
years in the Information Technology field achieving the position of
Director, Information Technology. He has also been doing work in the
disaster recovery field for over 20 years. He currently serves on
the Board of Directors of the Iowa Contingency Planners and is also
a member of the Metro Emergency Planners organization in Des Moines,
Iowa. Joe has an associate certification in business continuity
planning. |