Welcome to RIMScast. Your host is Justin Smulison, Business Content Manager at RIMS, the Risk and Insurance Management Society.   Justin Smulison interviews Jay Kiew, one of the keynotes for the RIMS Canada Conference 2024; the first of several Canada Conference keynotes who will appear on RIMScast. Justin and Jay discuss what is a change navigation strategist, how a risk or insurance professional could benefit from the perspective of a change navigation strategist, and what a licensed Insights psychometric practitioner does.   Listen in for a contemporary bonus definition of innovation. Key Takeaways: [:01] About RIMS and RIMScast. [:21] About this episode of RIMScast, coming to you from RIMS Headquarters in New York. I will be joined by change navigation strategist, Jay Kiew, who will be one of the keynotes for the RIMS Canada Conference 2024. [:44] First, let’s talk about RIMS Virtual Workshops. The full calendar of virtual workshops is at RIMS.org/VirtualWorkshops. On July 23rd and 24th, our good friend, Elise Farnham returns to teach Claims Management. August 15th kicks off the three-part series, Leveraging Data and Analytics for Continuous Risk Management. [1:08] Other dates for the Fall and Winter are available on the Virtual Workshops full calendar at RIMS.org/VirtualWorkshops. [1:16] Let’s talk about prep courses for the RIMS-CRMP. RIMS will co-host the next two-day RIMS-CRMP Exam Prep session on July 18th and 19th with Parima. RIMS will host its own RIMS-CRMP Exam Prep on July 30th and 31st and on August 7th and 8th, a RIMS-CRMP Exam Prep along with Utah Valley University. [1:38] The next RIMS-CRMP-FED Exam Prep course will be hosted along with George Mason University on December 3rd through 5th, 2024. Links to these courses can be found on the Certification Page of RIMS.org and in this episode’s show notes. [1:53] Registration is open for the 48th Annual Florida RIMS Educational Conference. It will be held from July 30th through August 3rd, 2024 in Naples, Florida. The link is in this episode’s show notes. All RIMS Regional Conferences information can be found on the events page of RIMS.org. [2:14] Registration opened for the RIMS Canada Conference 2024, which will be held on October 6th through 9th in Vancouver. Visit RIMSCanadaConference.ca to register! [2:27] Our guest today is Change Navigation Strategist, Jay Kiew. He is one of the keynotes appearing at the RIMS Canada Conference on October 7th. Read his bio on the RIMS Canada Conference registration page or visit JayKiew.com. [2:46] Jay has over 13 years of experience with Deloitte, TELUS, and ADP, leading mission-critical strategic transformations with over two billion dollars worth of impact. We will discuss those experiences and the roles risk professionals played, hear from this Vancouver native on his risk philosophies, and get a sense of the energy he will bring to the RIMS Canada Conference 2024.  [3:20] Jay Kiew, welcome to RIMScast! [3:58] Jay Kiew has a podcast, Mavericks and Machetes, about navigating and hacking through the thick of change. Mavericks blaze trails in their organization. Organizations also can be mavericks. The podcast digs into exploring how people impact and drive behavioral change. Justin offers a joke about the title. [5:27] Jay saw a Toastmasters booth at his college welcome day. He joined before he knew what it was, a weekly event where he could test the art and science of public speaking. That translates well to his full-time job today. Toastmasters got him going, in terms of his fear of speaking in public. It was scary but he decided to lean into it. [7:13] At that time, Toastmasters didn’t accept members under age 18. Jay had just turned 18 when he joined. He participated in leadership offices. While he developed his skills as a speaker he contributed to the chapter. At 19, he became the world’s youngest Distinguished Toastmaster. When that became an article on Wikipedia, other