Aviva Future Leader Programme
We’re here to help you go further
The Aviva Future Leader Programme is a practical and business-focused learning programme aimed at people in senior management to give them the skills and knowledge to successfully run a broking business.
The Aviva Future Leader Programme is designed to help:
- the delegate become boardroom-ready
- cultivate a solid understanding of the key challenges faced by brokers and share skills and support to overcome the challenges of today’s broking landscape
- develop candidates’ skills and behaviours, helping them to effectively lead their people and their businesses
- expand candidates’ ability and confidence to manage key relationships
- strengthen the broker community by supporting future leaders and their businesses to grow and develop
- create the next group of future leaders and industry influencers
- be the ultimate investment in you and your business
Who are we looking for?
Those with a progression plan and business support
The applicant must be in a senior management role or be responsible for leading the business. The programme will include time away from the office and there’ll be project work to complete, so employer buy-in and agreement is key.
Businesses with a strong relationship with Aviva
We're committed to supporting our key broker relationships and aligning with businesses that share our values.
Applications are now open for 2025
You can submit an application for yourself or an application can be proposed by a business for an employee. To help every candidate get the support they need, places are limited to 20 per cohort.
Please make sure you’re able to commit to the following dates before applying:
| 14 & 15 January 2025 | 18 & 19 March 2025 | 13, 14 & 15 May 2025 | 8 & 9 July 2025 |
| September 2025 - Club 110 conference | 11 & 12 November 2025 | 3 & 4 February 2026 | 14 & 15 April 2026 |
| 16 & 17 June 2026 | 11 & 12 August 2026 | 6 & 7 October 2026 | 24 & 25 November 2026 |
What does the course cover?
The programme covers a wide variety of content to help you run a successful insurance business, with topics including:
- people leadership
- presentation and pitching skills
- relationship management
- regulation and compliance
- business planning and strategic development
- HR and wellbeing
- innovation and change
- financial planning
- marketing and sales management
Bi-monthly workshops are run over two days in venues across the UK alongside external learning tasks. When possible, we make the most of industry events such as the BIBA conference and exhibition, supporting candidates to build a network of contacts.
Watch our videos to find out more about the programme
Transcript for video FLP Video
Luke Stevenson: So going forward, one of the biggest things I'll take away is the network of people, the diverse network that we've got across varying different types of businesses be really good in the future to lean on and ask for help and support and understand what's going on in their world.
The confidence of completing the leadership course, understanding more about how things are done in our business is just gonna be invaluable.
Anthony Adler: The FLP program has been great.
You know, the communities, it's great to see everyone keeping contact.
As you grow and you get older, you find that connections through the whole industry is so important.
Amy Logan: I have definitely grown in confidence in starting the FLP programme.
The different sessions have been fantastic. The variety of topics throughout the course have been amazing. I particularly find the finance sessions to be very interesting.
I would really recommend the Future Leader programme and I have done to other businesses. There is so much talent out there within the broker market, and this is the perfect way to nurture that talent.
Jayne Atkinson: Amy has certainly reflected a lot of the changes that have come through from the programme. We certainly know when she has been away for two days. She comes back full of vim and verve, and she is more enthusiastic in terms of her ability to speak in the boardroom, and it feels empowered, and we can see that she is empowered with dealing with her, you know, her staff and dealing with the day-to-Day issues that are facing us.
Sev-Singh Digpal - I think the delegates who I've been, or my cohorts I should say, have been a great help in guiding me personally in doing a better job within my company.
Rick Woodthrope - Well, I definitely recommend it. The confidence that I've got from the course, it's just gone through the roof. Before I started this, I'd have been a little bit more timid and as you've seen I've got up and done a bit of a speech.
I've never been some sort of wallflower, but I think it's really helped develop that side of me.
Michelle Craven - From a strategic point of view, he's now handling insurer relationships, having quite high-level meetings, which he didn't do before, and we are happy to let him go ahead and do those.
Transcript for video FLP Video
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Who will help you go further?
Meet the team
John Nutter - Aviva Learning and Development Manager
John joined Aviva in 1995 and has held a variety of roles across Financial Insurances, Claims and Underwriting until he became a CIPD qualified Learning & Development Consultant in 2009. As Manager of the Broker Learning & Development Team, his main focus is to help brokers to develop at every stage of their career.
Dan Wall - Aviva Learning and Development Consultant
Dan joined Aviva in 2001 as a sales executive. After spending some time as a sales coach, he developed a passion for training. He’s a CIPD-qualified learning and development consultant, specialising in business optimisation, and learning-and-development solutions designed to enhance and grow business for Aviva and our brokers.
Ian Stutz – Baker Street Consultancy Ltd
Ian has worked in the insurance Industry for 40 years including 15 years as part of the Aon UK Senior Management Team. He was then invited to invest in a Leicester based Broker BHIB and Broking Group Brokerbility following an MBO. As a shareholder and owner in 2020, he sold the business to Clear Group and is now on the main board of Clear Group. In addition to this work Ian has also provides consultancy support to Aviva Club 110 brokers and for over 10 years has had the opportunity to see and learn about the myriad of management styles that contribute to a successful independent broker.
Meet the mentors
Alex Alway
Adler Fairways
Ashwin Mistry OBE
Brokerbility
Ian Donaldson
Autonet
Jackie Hyde
Stanmore Insurance
Karen Weir
Weir Insurance
Lucy Hodgson
Eastwoods Insurance
Polly Staveley
TL Dallas
Rob Worrell
Ardonagh Group
Ryan Brown
PIB Group