How Leadership Is Practiced in Times of Change
In this article, François Jacquemin reflects on a discussion with Rada Rodriguez to explore how leadership is practiced in times of change. Focusing on direction, decision-making, and alignment, it highlights how leaders navigate uncertainty beyond efficiency and speed.
The Real Test of Insurance: Getting Claims Right
Claims management is the real moment of truth in insurance. Francois Jacquemin explores how insurers balance claim costs, client expectations, and trust, and explains why paying the right claim quickly and transparently is more important than paying more.
Distribution Is the Real Battleground of Insurance
In this article, François Jacquemin explores why insurance distribution remains the industry’s central battleground. As brokers, digital platforms, and ecosystems reshape client access, insurers must rethink their value chain, partnerships, and services to stay relevant in a rapidly evolving landscape.
AI in Insurance Requires Governance Before Scale
Artificial intelligence is transforming insurance, but governance will determine its long-term success. François Jacquemin explores how regulation, internal frameworks, and board oversight can help insurers deploy AI responsibly while improving efficiency, innovation, and customer service.
Creativity Under Constraint: Rethinking Innovation in Insurance
Creativity in insurance thrives under constraint. Francois Jacquemin explores how regulation, pricing, distribution, and culture drive real innovation in insurance. Learn why sustainable creativity is not about disruption, but disciplined execution, ecosystem collaboration, and leadership alignment.
Insurance in 2030: Evolution, Not Revolution
What will insurance look like in 2030? Francois Jacquemin explores why AI will transform underwriting, claims, and distribution but not replace human advice. Discover why the future of insurance will be digital, data-driven, and AI-augmented, yet still anchored in trust and expertise.
Sports Insurance: A Different Way of Thinking About Risk
Francois Jacquemin shares a CEO’s perspective on sports insurance and why it requires long-term thinking, specialist partnerships, and a different approach to risk from national team coverage to post-career cognitive health.
Building Bridges Is Not Stakeholder Management
Francois Jacquemin shares a leadership mindset on building bridges beyond stakeholder management. Discover how trust, strategic alignment, and disciplined relationship maintenance drive execution, resilience, and long-term value in complex ecosystems.
Distribution, Revisited: Why the Way You Reach the Customer Defines Who You Are
Distribution isn’t a channel choice, it’s identity. Francois explains why owning (or delegating) the customer relationship reshapes strategy, products, and control. From Netflix to insurance, he shows how brokers, platforms, and digital speed force clarity and alignment.
AI and Insurance: From Overwhelming Hype to Measurable Value
AI is everywhere, but insurance needs more than hype. Francois explains how to turn AI into measurable value: stronger governance, smarter claims and underwriting support, better customer experience, and real efficiency through human accountability, adoption, and disciplined execution.
Leading Change Without Losing the Human Touch
How leaders can drive transformation without losing trust. Francois Jacquemin shares a CEO-level perspective on leading change with a human touch, focusing on people, trust, and collaboration to deliver sustainable performance in complex organizations.
Leading Across Cultures: Trust, Emotion, and Execution
In this thought leadership article, Francois Jacquemin reflects on leading across cultures and explains how trust, emotion, and cultural context directly shape execution in international teams, influence performance, and determine long-term organizational value.
Rebuilding Insurance from the Customer Backward: Why Iteration, Not Reinvention, Defines the Future
Francois Jacquemin explores how insurance is adapting by rebuilding from the customer backward. A thought leadership article on iteration, ecosystems, AI, personalization, and distribution, showing how insurers evolve sustainably without disrupting the value chain.
What Leading in a Global Group Really Teaches You
Francois shares the real lessons learned inside one of the world’s largest insurance groups. How trust, networks, Hospitation, and cross-cultural collaboration create value, accelerate integration, and transform organizations into connected, thriving ecosystems.
Insurance Is Sold, Not Bought, And Why That Realization Changed My Entire Approach to Product Leadership
Francois Jacquemin explores why insurance is “sold, not bought” and how real product success comes from client-driven insights, collaborative development, and long-term alignment. A valuable perspective for leaders driving transformation in insurance and reinsurance.
Insurance as an Enabler: Why Services, Not Policies, Will Define the Next Era of Our Industry
Insurance is evolving from coverage to service. This article explores how prevention, digital ecosystems, InsurTech partnerships, and human-centric support make insurers meaningful societal enablers, not commodity risk carriers.
The Generational Shift Reshaping Insurance: From Human-First to AI-First
Insurance is shifting from a human-first to an AI-first paradigm, driven by generational change and rising expectations for speed, relevance, and emotional trust. This article explores how AI and human empathy must converge to redefine value, service, and leadership in the industry.
AI and Insurance: Between Revolution and Responsibility
Francois Jacquemin explains how AI is transforming insurance by redefining trust, personalization, and the client experience, proving that technology can enhance, but never replace, the human promise to be there when it matters most.
From Red Carpet to Risk Tables: What Cinema Teaches Us About Trust
Cinema and insurance both rely on trust, discipline, and emotional connection. This article explores how emotional resonance, not just data or AI, drives product adoption and loyalty, reminding leaders to balance logic with human presence in every decision.
Insurance Isn’t Going Anywhere, But It Won’t Look the Same Either
François reframes insurance as a system of trust, not just a product. He explores how AI, regulation, and emotion are shaping the future of insurance not through disruption, but through deeper societal alignment.