Social Impact and Supporting Independent Workers : An Interview with Anthony Beilin and Benjamin Hay, CEO & COO of Collective Benefits

Episode description

 Hello and welcome to the latest episode of the Leadership in Insurance Podcast where this week we are lucky enough to be joined by Anthony Beilin and Benjamin Hay, CEO & COO of Collective Benefits, the Insurtech start up who are on a mission to make independent work work for everyone. 

We had a great conversation this week where we discussed a wide variety of topics such as:

• Building a solution that allows platforms to deliver dynamic, usage based, realtime protections and benefits for their workers 
• Being driven by the need for flexibility in independent work
• Is this a business born out of a regulatory environment and have restrictions created this opportunity?
• The protection gap for independent workers
• Evolving the route to the customer
• Is the gig economy good for society?
• The flexibility of gig working
• Do people find their work meaningful in the gig economy?
• The importance of accuracy of information when discussing the gig economy
• Collective Benefit’s Head of Social Impact
• Social impact being at the heart of Collective Benefit’s mission
• The lack of a metric to track worker’s wellbeing
• What impacts worker well being?
• The importance of partnerships
• The B Corp movement
• Creating a benchmark for what we think social impact means within this framework
• B Corps - it’s not just about the certificate its about fundamental change
• Giving people tools and removing challenges of access to basic finical and well being products
• How new demographics require new models
• Launching in lockdown!
• How the pandemic helped people understand who Collective Benefits are and what they are trying to achieve
• Improving member experience and keeping members at the heart of our thinking
• Collective Benefits pop ups!
• What does the New Year have in store for Collective Benefits?

Thank you Anthony and Benjamin for your time, it was great to speak to you!

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