Director
Yutree Insurance
Since starting out as an account manager in 1996, Laura High has climbed up the industry ladder and, in 2007, became a distribution director for Bluefin Insurance Services. Presently, she serves as director at Yutree Insurance, which she and three other senior industry professionals launched in 2011. She heads the underwriting division, which provides exclusive liability policies to brokers. In September 2016, the company made its biggest deal, a new binding authority liability product backed by Endurance at Lloyd’s.
In 2014, High was appointed as the Anglia region chairman of the British Insurance Brokers’ Association (BIBA). She is working to push brokers in the region to engage with the trade association and enable BIBA to campaign for the most relevant issues.
Even with her success, High senses the industry’s struggle in recruiting women, and even more so getting them to the top. She advises recruiters to emphasise the social/relational nature of the work and, in terms of developing leaders, she highlights the need for more visible female role models.
“I think it’s about putting female role models up there … you want to hear from successful people in the industry about what their path is. You have to give [women] confidence. They need to be encouraged to push through with other success stories.”
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