Ohio agency sees its high-performing culture as its most significant differentiator The O’Neill Group, Wadsworth, Ohio, traces its roots back to 1924, but gained its current appellation when Patrick O’Neill purchased the agency in 1991. Although he graduated with a degree in accounting, Patrick wanted to go into the insurance business where he could better use his entrepreneurial and sales skills. His dad worked for Westfield Insurance Company and knew
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ESOP brings teammates together at this Mississippi agency Now that’s a big family—116 people and counting! “Our leadership puts others before themselves,” says Ross & Yerger Vice President and Personal Lines Group Leader Jordan Bryan, API. “They’re willing to do anything to help out any of our people, and that’s contagious. It contributes to the family-like atmosphere that pervades our agency. “And it is our agency,” she emphasizes. “I come
Being different makes a difference for this Indiana and Colorado agency What do you get when a modern hippie acquires his dad’s insurance agency? Sounds like the start of a joke, but it’s not. What you get is a successful agency whose parent company is named Someday Is Today LLC and whose corporate vehicle is a 1970 VW microbus wrapped in tie dye with The Thompson Group logo on the
Ohio agency finds its purpose and goes from good to remarkable “The purpose of life is not to be happy—but to matter, to be productive, to be useful, to have it make some difference that you lived at all.” —Ralph Waldo Emerson Epiphanies sometimes come in small packages. In 2012, Preferred Insurance Center, Coldwater, Ohio, became a centenarian, and Partner Dan Muhlenkamp wanted to do something to celebrate the event.
Insurance never, now it’s forever There’s probably no better way to get someone to eschew insurance as a career than to expose that person to the “wonderful?” world of debit insurance. Quincy Branch, RHU, EHBA, still remembers his father Aubrey’s debit route in Louisiana. After seeing what that involved, he vowed he “would never go into insurance.” Today, Quincy heads up Branch Benefits Consultants in Las Vegas, Nevada, which includes
