The Digital Minds Programme
Creating a Culture of Innovation in Insurance
EDII’s Digital Minds Programme is a unique and immersive professional development programme designed to prepare its delegates for an ever-evolving, innovation-driven, and digitally complex world.
It’s more than just a course – it’s a catalyst for transformation within the insurance industry.
The insurance industry is constantly evolving.
What does it take, not only to survive, but to thrive?
Customer-centricity, employee engagement, emerging technology, hybrid working, regulatory changes… Today’s business is a challenging blend of technology, people and knowledge – only a creative, digital approach holds the key to success.
The programme is tailor-made for forward-thinking insurance professionals and brings together business practitioners from many roles and levels within your organisation.
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Programme Overview
The programme is tailor-made for forward-thinking insurance professionals and brings together business practitioners from many roles and levels within your organisation.
Interactive and collaborative activities with your fellow delegates.
Programme Details
Start Date: 07 May 2024
Duration: 8 Months
Cost: £5,950 plus VAT per delegate
15% reduction for 3 or more places per organisation
Our CII Accredited CPD Digital Minds programme is delivered via eight modules and built around the five stages of Design Thinking: empathise, define, ideate, prototype, and test.
Through Digital Minds, delegates gain the opportunity to delve into industry challenges, uncover customer insights, understand the significance of data and critical thinking, and devise solutions centred around customer needs.
The programme follows a hybrid delivery approach, combining in-person and virtual sessions that provide you with a comprehensive and enriched learning experience. Digital Minds has been crafted to support organisations to embed their staff in corporate innovation culture and empower delegates to overcome the challenges of the digital and virtual future.
Build knowledge with a blended learning approach with hands-on experiences, expert teaching, and insights from industry leaders.
Collaborate with like-minded peers and acquire an extensive toolkit of insurance-led design thinking and innovation techniques.
Learn to cultivate transformative solutions and inspire change within the insurance landscape.
Digital Minds empowers delegates with fresh perspectives, renewed motivation, and enhanced skills, enabling them to play a pivotal role in shaping both the industry and the future success of their respective organisations.
Digital Minds Cohort 7
Dates to be Announced
What You Will Learn
Embark on a transformative journey to master agile problem-solving, foster an innovative culture, apply design thinking for customer-centric solutions, generate innovative ideas, prototype and test concepts, analyse and prioritise challenges, inspire and influence others, and craft compelling presentations for driving industry-wide innovation.
We welcome delegates from all areas of the insurance industry, from a wide variety of roles, expertise and experience. Previous delegate roles include underwriters, brokers, actuaries, marketing executives, operations managers, product owners, claims handlers, and many more.
Aimed at ambitious business professionals who want to develop their innovative, creative and business-critical skills, check if Digital Minds is for you.
Do you want to:
Hone your creativity, innovation, and business-critical skills?
Be part of a community that has a passion to drive the industry forward?
Understand the hyper-relevant issues affecting our industry?
Explore emerging technology and understand how it is revolutionising the insurance industry?
Collaborate with like-minded market participants?
Develop skills for life?
If you answered YES to any of the questions above, Digital Minds is the perfect programme for you. Don’t delay, places are filling fast!
Testimonials From Previous Delegates
Alistair Blundy, CEO, Skyrisks
“I used to think that innovation was a magic art only understood by a specialist team hidden somewhere in the organisation. Digital Minds is brilliant at making innovation accessible, and it gave me the confidence and skills to drive positive change in the industry.
After the programme I felt empowered to be an intrapreneur. I got involved in a project to harmonise the way we structured data, removing pain points and improving the team’s efficiency. I’m grateful to Digital Minds for this empowerment, which is now more relevant than ever as I’m involved in a startup, where successful innovation is the heartbeat.”
Emma Culham, Regional Manager, National Underwriting Centre UK&I, Chubb
“Digital Minds is a totally unique opportunity. Not only do you get to work alongside a really diverse group of people. You build skills and gain insights that are normally off-limits to our industry. Exploring new technologies, learning how to embrace design thinking, and challenging yourself and others to deliver meaningful change. You learn in the classroom, but everything is really practical, so you can start applying it immediately. It doesn’t stop when you leave the course either, they really encourage you to build your network, putting on interesting talks and providing opportunities to attend EDII alumni events.”
Mark Firman, Head of Business Change & Transformation, Ascot Underwriting Limited
“There were numerous highlights during the programme, but I most enjoyed the group project. This was a real-life challenge for our market, we explored ways of addressing this topic and worked with people from different organisations and in different roles.
This also provided the perfect opportunity to put into practice some of the learnings from each module. I also liked how Digital Minds Alumni were invited in to allow us to test our ideas, present our proposals and gain valuable feedback.”
Clare Lebecq, Group Operating Officer, Specialist Risk Group
“At SRG we specialise in creating innovative solutions to challenging risk transfer questions and we seek to adopt a similar innovative approach to the use of technology. EDII and Digital Minds has helped our colleagues to think creatively about how we can embrace new technology to drive positive change. It has also helped them to think beyond the boundaries of our own organisation through their interactions with like-minded individuals across our profession.”
Your Delivery Team
Caroline Bedford
Chief Executive Officer
Caroline’s passion is developing creativity, capability and confidence in current and future business leaders. Through her 30+ years in industry, Caroline has steered through many technological techniques and trends, delivering innovative projects, programmes, and portfolios worldwide. Caroline has held various digital transformation and people development roles in the insurance industry. Read Caroline’s full bio here.
Jasmine Shell
Innovation Manager
Jasmine is an expert innovator and communications leader. Specialising in innovation techniques and digital collaboration, Jasmine uses her skills to introduce delegates to new approaches. and tools that they can cascade straight away throughout their teams.
Hélène Stanway
Coaching Director
Hélène is an award-winning and highly effective insurance leader with a proven track record in emerging technologies, innovation, operations, data, change, and digital transformation. Her passion for actively combining the human element, design, and innovation alongside technology has enabled companies in the global insurance market to embrace change by achieving their desired strategic goals, improving processes, increasing efficiency, and deploying relevant tools. With a special passion for IoT and Sensor Technology, Hélène is a perpetual learner, driven to help delegates succeed.
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