Katie Crook-Davies and Rajasree Variyar: The Risky Mix Podcast hosts: Diversity, inclusion and innovation (98)

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Entrepreneurship, Investing, Business

4.8 • 50 Ratings

🗓️ 17 August 2020

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Katie Crook-Davies and Rajasree Variyar are the hosts of the Risky Mix Podcast which features conversations on making insurance more diverse and inclusive. They join Matthew Grant on Episode 98 to discuss their own experiences of working in the industry, raising awareness of careers opportunities and changing consumer perceptions of insurance. Other talking points include: The value of diversity for innovation Differing attitudes between insurtechs and incumbents Funding challenges for female founders Attracting young talent to the industry Rethinking how we work following Covid-19 If you like what you're hearing, please leave us a review on whichever platform you use, or contact Matthew Grant on Linkedin. Find out what we are up to at InsTech London and sign up to our newsletter for a fresh view on the world every Wednesday morning. Continuing Professional Development - Learning Objectives InsTech London is accredited by The Chartered Insurance Institute (CII). By listening to an InsTech London podcast, or reading the accompanying transcript, you can claim up to 0.5 CPD hours towards the CII member CPD scheme. Complete the InsTech London Podcast Feedback Survey to claim your CPD time.

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0:00.0	Good morning, good evening, welcome or welcome back, Matthew Grant here, partner at INSEC, London.
0:20.5	Now, of course, innovation is at the heart of being able to successfully grow and evolve any business. But innovation itself is not just about doing clever things with data and analytics. In fact, one of the biggest challenges for many businesses, small and large and innovating, is how to be creative and do things differently to drive growth.
0:39.5	Well, this week I'm having a fascinating discussion with Raj and Katie, who both work in
0:44.9	insurance, but they are also the host of the Risky Mix podcast, and they talk to guests who are
0:50.0	doing things slightly differently, bringing a different perspective to the industry, using their
0:54.4	own creativity and looking at ways of diversity, inclusion and maybe even a little bit of disruption
1:00.5	can shake up the status quo. I think you're going to enjoy this one. So delighted to have the two hosts of the Risky Mix podcast today. It's always an exciting
1:18.4	discussion to have other people who host podcasts and I always learn an awful lot from them.
1:22.7	So very much, Katie and Raj are looking forward, I should say, to talking to talking to you
1:27.4	today. So a quick bit of
1:28.6	background. So Katie, you train as an actuary. You worked at Swiss. Then Vitality, UK. And now you've got
1:35.6	your own consulting business helping people with actuarial problems. Raj, you are now a head of insurance
1:42.3	products at Simply business. and you also spend some time
1:46.4	at Vitality UK.
1:48.1	So I'm guessing that's where the two of you met.
1:50.7	But you're very glad to welcome you to the Instac London podcast.
1:55.2	Thank you for having us.
1:56.7	Delighted to be here.
1:58.3	Great.
1:58.6	Well, one of my questions to both of you actually, just bring this
2:01.9	one right up front, is having listened to a number of your episodes, I'm really impressed about
2:06.5	how you decide who is going to ask the questions. So how do you manage to do that and keep the
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