Ep204 What do Teenagers Think about Insurance?

Today we’re doing something completely different. We are going to
try to look into the future. In this Episode none of the people
we are going to talk to are senior insurance leaders. But they
might be the insurance leaders of the future. We in insurance
know that we’re not likely to be at the top of young people's
wish lists when it comes to a future career.  But it’s only
recently, as we have focused more on talent gaps, that we have
started to do something about remedying this problem. That’s
where today’s episode comes in. There is a wonderful talent
accelerator called Startup Sherpas that goes out and engages with
young people via paid work experience cohorts that are funded by
industry. These projects, which take a hundred young people each,
are called Supersquads. Last summer Allianz, Aviva and the London
Market Group (the LMG) sponsored one of these Supersquads and
three of today’s guests are graduates of that scheme. Startup
Sherpas calls them Sherpees. In that project the Sherpees were
asked to come up with ideas to help the Insurance sector better
get the attention of young people and make them more likely to
think about a career in insurance. The Sherpees came up with a
huge number of ideas and these were whittled down to the best,
three of which you’re going to hear about today from their
creators. Howden Ventures and its insurer innovation partners are
sponsoring the next Supersquad and it was the Head of Howden
Ventures and recent Voice of Insurance guest, Tom Hoad who was
the person who got me involved. Today’s recording happened in the
Lloyd’s Lab at a live event I chaired in which the Sherpees
pitched their idea to an audience of industry people. I grabbed
five minutes with the presenters Chelsea Abili (Bottom left),
Amaan Patel (Top Left) and Funta Olenrewaju (Top Right) just
before they went on stage. But first I spoke to Dan Wyllie
(Bottom Right) Managing Director & Chief Operating Officer at
Startup Sherpas to set the scene LINKS:
https://startupsherpas.org/ Here’s the report that came out of
the first Supersquad:
https://startupsherpas.org/register-interest-insurance-time-machine-report-2023
We thank our naming sponsor AdvantageGo:
https://www.advantagego.com/