Juan de Castro

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Making Risk Flow | The Future of Insurance · Why Operations Is the Ultimate Growth Engine in Insurance | Ann Haugh · 29 Jul 2026 podcast

historically less or careers, for example, in operations that offer less to like more strategic roles.

And I think that this is now opening really up to become strategic leaders.

What's your advice to those?

Let's imagine somebody coming from an operations background to really get a seat on the strategy table.

Building on what you said, one of the things our Sam Lewis, who leads product engineering at Cytora, when we ask him, like, what is your advice to, like, in this case, engineers who want to do a different role, his advice is always start doing the role.

See, that's even a step before raising your hand and say, I want that role.

It's even just start doing elements of that job, right?

So if you're in operations, start getting exposed to underwriting and come up with ideas of how can you

improve the underwriting, or if it's in finance, do the same, right?

It's the concept of, I think, to your earlier point, I think careers become less linear today.

And it's really the people that raise their hands, they proactively get involved in new things.

And first of all, are the ones who master that influence skill that you were talking about, right?

Because they have a broader knowledge and are able to bring better perspectives.

To wrap it up, Anna, I would like to ask you three very quick questions with short answers to pick your brain.

So the first one is one operational habit like every company should still.

Yeah, and a great strategy always also identifies what you want to stop doing, right?

Exactly.

Second one is when you think about operational excellence, what is the one thing you think people get wrong about operational excellence?

And the last one, which is a bit unfair to ask you to give a short answer, but if you had to say where is specialty insurance going in the next three to five years in your crystal ball, what would you say?

I love it.

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