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The financial services profession can be unpredictable and challenging — even in the best of times.

Award-winning resilience expert Heidi Dening acknowledges that advisors have had to change the way they have always done things recently because of circumstances around the pandemic, but even before that, working in the financial services profession is full of uncertainties from the ever-fluctuating markets. “They’re forever having to adapt,” she said, noting that both courage and self-leadersh...

While change has always been a constant in the financial services profession, the sudden pivot required in the early months of 2020 at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic tested MDRT members around the world. In Round the Table, we spoke with financial advisors who quickly shifted the way they ran their businesses and connected with their clients. Rather than struggle during this tumultuous time, they found new success. These MDRT members managed to have their most productive year ever in 2020 or

Following the tragic events of 2020, organizations and entities in the public and private sectors are re-evaluating how they handle race relations within their companies and agencies. For some in the transportation sphere, improving on diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) has been an ongoing project for years, while others are just joining in on the conversation. Most begin with a focus on understanding what DEI is and why it’s important.

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The United States has been facing increasing global competition regarding artificial intelligence and needs cutting edge innovation to maintain an advantage. On Thursday afternoon, Aimee McGranahan, Chief Operating Officer from the Spookstock Foundation, moderated a panel focused on turning the innovations that have been discussed throughout the symposium into reality to support the war fighter and intelligence community. Panelists included Jim McCool, Director of the new department of Data and

The COVID-19 pandemic made a huge impact on every industry and operation. Vice Admiral Robert Sharp, Director of the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, said that the silver lining of the past two years has been that evolving conditions under the pandemic allowed for technical and cultural changes within the agency. Many of those changes occurred in IT infrastructure, as the agency branched out in new ways that are unique for an IC organization. The pandemic also allowed for the NGA to test