Keynote: It Starts With Ideas

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Bill Donnell, CPCU
President and CEO, NCCI

Bill Donnell is President and Chief Executive Officer of NCCI, a trusted source of workers compensation information. Under his leadership, NCCI serves nearly 40 state governments and more than 900 insurance carriers, providing data, insights, tools, and services that foster a healthy workers compensation system.

Donnell is an accomplished executive leader with more than three decades of industry experience specializing in property/casualty (P/C) insurance/reinsurance in both global and domestic US leadership roles. Prior to joining NCCI, he was president of Swiss Re’s US P/C reinsurance business. Currently, he serves on the board of the Community Foundation of Palm Beach and Martin counties. He is a noted insurance industry subject-matter expert and speaker.

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Malcolm Gladwell
Author of six New York Times bestsellers and host of the popular podcast Revisionist History

Malcolm Gladwell is the author of six New York Times bestsellers—The Tipping Point, Blink, Outliers, What the Dog Saw, David and Goliath, and Talking to Strangers. He has been named one of the 100 most influential people by TIME magazine and one of the Foreign Policy’s Top Global Thinkers.

Gladwell’s newest book is the audiobook Miracle and Wonder: Conversations with Paul Simon. Published by Pushkin Industries, Gladwell and co-author Bruce Headlam recorded over 30 hours of conversation with Simon. The result is an intimate audio biography of one of America’s most popular songwriters. Brimming with music and conversation, Miracle and Wonder is a window into Simon’s legendary career, what it means to be alive as an artist, and how to create work that endures.

His book The Bomber Mafia: A Dream, a Temptation, and the Longest Night of the Second World War was inspired by a four-part series about General Curtis LeMay on his podcast Revisionist History. In it, Gladwell weaves together the stories of a Dutch genius and his homemade computer, a band of brothers in central Alabama, a British psychopath, and pyromaniacal chemists at Harvard to examine one of the greatest moral challenges in modern American history.

He has explored how ideas spread in The Tipping Point, decision making in Blink, and the roots of success in Outliers. With his latest book, David and Goliath, he examines our understanding of advantages of disadvantages, arguing that we have underestimated the value of adversity and over-estimated the value of privilege.

Gladwell is the host of a 10-part weekly podcast, Revisionist History. In it, he reexamines an overlooked or misunderstood aspect of past events. He has been a staff writer for The New Yorker since 1996. He has won a national magazine award and been honored by the American Psychological Society and the American Sociological Society. He was previously a reporter for The Washington Post. Gladwell is an extraordinary speaker: always on target, aware of the context and the concerns of the audience, informative and practical, poised, eloquent, warm, and funny. He has an unsurpassed ability to be both entertaining and challenging.

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Gregory P. Jacobson
Co-Chief Executive Officer, The Jacobson Group

Gregory P. Jacobson is Co-Chief Executive Officer of The Jacobson Group, the leading US executive search and staffing firm to the insurance industry. He is also known industry wide as an investor, board member, and influencer. Jacobson has assisted countless insurance companies, large and small, early stage and traditional, in achieving their goals by acquiring talented executives to drive their organizations forward. He has successfully led searches for critical senior-level disciplines including CEOs, COOs, CIOs, CFOs, and independent directors.

He contributes to many regional and national insurance events, including those of AM Best, American Property and Casualty Insurers Association, Medical Professional Liability Association, and the National Association of Mutual Insurance Companies, among others. He is considered an expert on the industry's labor market and has often been called upon to share his perspectives on the industry’s talent outlook, human capital strategic planning, and talent acquisition. He has been a featured columnist in Best’s Review and regularly contributes his insights with periodicals such as Carrier Management, Financial Times, Insurance Business America, Insurance Journal, and LOMA’s Resource.

Jacobson is currently on the board of the 1970 Group, a specialty financing company supporting the insurance industry. He has served as a board member of the National Insurance Industry Council for the City of Hope and the Chicago Sinfonietta, the nation’s most diverse orchestra. Additionally, he was a driving force behind the creation of the Insurance Careers Movement and continues to be an active supporter of the grassroots movement inspiring young people to pursue insurance careers. He is also a member of YPO, an exclusive global leadership community of chief executives. He graduated from Illinois State University with a degree in violin performance.

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Gerry Stanley, MD, P-CEO
Senior Vice President and Chief Medical Officer, Harvard MedTech

Gerry Stanley, MD, P-CEO, is the Senior Vice President and Chief Medical Officer for Harvard MedTech and has a passion for healthcare transformation. Dr. Stanley has deep expertise in healthcare IT, population health management, self-insured health plan management, medical consumerism, and direct-to-employer network enablement.

As a third-generation family physician, he has grown up in the evolution of healthcare delivery systems and is an active proponent of utilizing data and analytics to educate clinicians about the power of managing patient populations one clinical interaction at a time. He describes the opportunity to find a solution for the growing opioid epidemic and mental health crisis by creating a resource for clinicians to treat patients wholistically as “a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to solve a societal need.”

Most recently, Dr. Stanley served as the chief medical officer for the employer and consumer division of Cerner. While at Cerner, he developed a value-based care and population health strategy for critical access hospitals, community hospitals, and a framework for health plan development for integrated delivery networks. He also had responsibility for Cerner’s national system of on-site and near-site health centers/pharmacies/occupational centers serving self-insured employers, care coordination teams, a national team of corporate wellness strategists, an analytics division, a third-party administrator, and the self-insured and direct-to-employer insurance strategies for Cerner clients.

He has a unique ability to identify market-specific opportunities for development, stabilization, and growth. He believes that a collaborative approach and strong foundational understanding of healthcare delivery, health systems, insurance brokers/consultants, and self-insured employers is critical to scale health plans and achieve the quadruple AIM of healthcare.

Dr. Stanley received his undergraduate degree from Creighton University studying classical and near Eastern civilizations and graduating magna cum laude. He then attended the Creighton University School of Medicine where he served as class president for three years, graduated with clinical honors, and received the university’s highest honor, the Spirit of Creighton award. He completed his residency at the Northern Colorado Family Medicine Program with a focus on rural and surgical family medicine. He practiced medicine for over 10 years in a variety of practice settings and group/hospital leadership positions before attending the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University and graduating from the physician CEO program.

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