The CIOP Institute Honors Graduates of 2011 CIOP Designation Class

NEW YORK, Oct. 24, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- The CIOP Institute is pleased to announce the insurance leaders and professionals who have successfully attained their Chartered Insurance Operations Professional (CIOP) Designation as members of the Class of 2011. Fulfillment of the requirements for the CIOP Designation includes participation in the rigorous CIOP Designation Class followed by successful completion of the CIOP Exam Project.

The CIOP Designation Class provides an intense two-and-a-half day content-rich presentation of the key underlying concepts and cutting-edge techniques in designing, building, and sustaining high-performance insurance operations. Given the significant amount of information that is presented, and the respective knowledge to be gained by CIOP candidates, the teaching approach is particularly robust, interactive and dynamic. Topics that comprise the CIOP Designation Class include: Operational Design and Development, Forging and Executing Operational Strategies, Organizational & Business Model Design, Process Principals and Design Techniques, Designing and Delivering a Superior Customer Experience, Rethinking and Designing Robust Performance Standards, Advancing Operational Performance Through Contemporary Metrics, Competing on Analytics, Technology-Enabled High-Performing Operations, Value Proposition Engineering and Delivery, Leveraging Human Capital and Talent for Sustainable Operational Excellence, and Managing Change - Planning and Mobilizing for Improved Results.

Following the designation class, the CIOP candidates are provided 60 days to complete their CIOP Exam Project. The Exam Project provides the opportunity for class participants to review and reinforce the depth and breadth of the designation class topical content. The Exam Project also enables the CIOP candidates to select among a number of application questions to practice the respective concepts and techniques within their specific organizational setting. Candidates are also encouraged to team with other candidates from the same sponsoring firm in completing the Exam Project. While particularly demanding, the CIOP Designation Program is a very sensible and mature approach to mastering and applying critical business fundamentals, advanced concepts and cutting-edge techniques.

The combination of content-rich instruction and a reinforcing exam project ensures that the entire CIOP Designation and learning experience is intensely pragmatic and of immediate benefit to CIOP candidates and their sponsoring firms. Indeed, the CIOP Designation provides a pathway for insurance industry leaders and professionals to meet head-on the challenges associated with significantly improving and advancing the capabilities of their firms. The CIOP Designation does this through a dedicated belief in the power of knowledge as a shaper of performance, a builder of professionalism, a creator of ideas, and an inciter of innovation and change.

Philip Mondanaro, a member of the Board of Directors for the CIOP Institute, in a recent interview spoke of the overwhelming success of the CIOP Designation Program, stating that since its introduction in 2008 over 500 insurance leaders and professionals from 75 firms have participated - with many firms requiring that all the emerging leaders within their organizations successfully pursue the CIOP course of study and professional development program. Mr. Mondanaro further shared that the intention is to "relentlessly, purposely, and significantly raise the standards by which insurance organizations perform - through the highest degree of efficiency, effectiveness, integration and execution. And to do this by providing CIOP candidates a rigorous development experience in which they learn to create and sustain a new level of ability in designing and controlling business models and processes, delivering an unsurpassed customer experience, designing and managing lean operations, improving and measuring performance with precision and prediction, allocating and engaging resources optimally, and driving ever higher levels of performance throughout their organization and into the marketplace."

The 2012 CIOP Designation Class will be held April 25-27, 2012 at the Waldorf Astoria Executive Conference Center in New York City. More information regarding the CIOP Designation Program, including course curricula, conference brochure and registration forms, is available at http://www.ciopdesignation.com or by calling Paul James of the CIOP Institute at 866.930.CIOP.

Please join us in congratulating those candidates of the CIOP Class of 2011 who have successfully attained their CIOP Designation:

Brenda A. Macmillan - Commerce Insurance
Carolyn Evans - Axis Capital
Catherine Basinger - CAA Insurance
Cindy Shaw - Liberty Mutual
Claudine Davoodi - Crawford & Co.
Curt Dutilley - Main Street America Group
Dana Soubra - CAA Insurance
David McKee - Montpelier Group
Dolly T. Goodwin - Scottsdale Insurance
Ena Hassen - CAA Insurance
Jennifer Lara - Markel Corporation
Jodi Nash - Colorado Casualty
John Elias - Safe Auto Insurance
Judy Mercer - Alberta Motor Association
Julie A. Matthews - Safeco Insurance
Karen A. Karow - Church Mutual Insurance
Kelly Ridgwell - Safeco Insurance
Kendal Hale - America First Insurance
Kevin S. Lawrence - Alfa Insurance
Latrelle C. Bolden - Montgomery Insurance
Linda Jonides - Equitable Life & Casualty
Lisa Abitante - Chubb Insurance
Lisa Matteo - Chubb Insurance
Lynnette M. Langlois - Riverstone Resources
Marlene Dickson - Alberta Motor Association
Norine G. Parker - Alberta Motor Association
Pamela M. Silverman - Chubb Insurance
Pamela Pond - Safe Auto Insurance
Richard J. Bodner - Ohio National Financial Services
Ronald F. Profaizer - Main Street America Group
Ruben Goveo - National Insurance Group
Sarah Cameron - Alberta Motor Association
Sean Canuel - Alberta Motor Association
Selena Hill - Hiscox Insurance Group
Shannon Travis - Main Street America Group
Sheri Martinello - Crawford & Co.
Shreejit R. Nair - Lincoln Financial Group
Stephanie Bowdish - Liberty Mutual Insurance
Steven Rainey - Indiana Insurance
Terence Ha - CAA Insurance
Tracy Davis - Montpelier Group
Tracy J. Miles - Arbella Insurance

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SOURCE CIOP Institute