Michele McDermott Email Address

Senior Vice President, Human Resources

Assurance Agency is one of the largest, privately held insurance brokerages in the Midwest. Business Insurance ranks it among the 100 largest brokers public and private in the United States. The company specializes in providing property and casualty insurance solutions and designing and administering employee benefit programs. Its clients include a wide scope of industry: construction, staffing, senior care and manufacturing, to name just a few. Assurance has been inspiring its trust and confidence with service excellence since the company s founding in 1961. Assurance provides access, and in many cases a preferred broker status, to more than 100 of the toprated insurance carriers in the country.

A wise woman once told me “Connect your soul to your role.” And so, I bring individuality, creativity and passion to my role every day. I’m a people person. In fact, I’m the top Human Resources professional at Assurance. As such I have the pleasure of developing, managing and administering all human resource-related strategies, programs, policies and procedures. With my 20+ years of experience, I bring a strategic focus to developing Assurance’s current and future leaders, recruiting top insurance talent and enabling business scalability while maintaining a “Best Place to Work” culture. My goal is to leverage wellness and employee benefit programs to increase engagement and ultimately minimize risk and maximize the health of Assurance’s employee-base. Areas of expertise include: • Engagement • Benefits • Safety Training • Corporate Vision • HR Strategy • Talent Management • Leadership Development • Culture Assessment • Succession Planning • Employee Relations • HRIS • Change Management • M & A For more information on open careers at Assurance, please visit: http://www.assuranceagency.com/about-us/careers.