The Digital Leadership Curriculum is TDI Academy's flagship program for insurers — 56 lessons across 7 courses covering the full digital insurance value chain. Co-designed around your function, audience and timing.
One curriculum. Four customizable formats. Built by insurance, for insurance.
Tell us a little about your team and your timing. Malini (Head of TDI Academy) will be in touch within one business day to scope the right format.
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The evidence on what happens when you don't address them is unambiguous. TDI Academy was launched to turn these three challenges into three strengths — built specifically for insurance.
Digital technology now leads every other workplace skill as most needed — but most insurers are not yet equipped.
Of companies that explicitly addressed culture change, 79% reached "sustained strong" or "breakthrough" performance. 0% of those that neglected it did.
Technology changes exponentially. Organizations change logarithmically. Without continuous upskilling, the gap widens every year.
The reason most digital L&D doesn't move the needle — and how the DLC is built to solve it.
Critical for team buy-in & engagement, cultural alignment and digital transformation success. Without it, technology investments fail on adoption.
Essential for the digital skills, tools and frameworks teams need to do the job. Without it, strategy stays on the page.
The gap in most digital L&D. 75% of programs overweight Minds and ignore Hearts. TDI Academy does both — insurance-specific.
Three reasons we're the insurance industry's only business school dedicated to digital.
Built by insurance specialists. Tailored pathways for specific roles and lines of business. Scalable and customizable to your context.
Practical case studies. Facilitated discussion groups. Multi-format delivery. Modern, mobile-friendly platform.
Measurable outcomes. Leadership and collaboration. Global recognition. CII-accredited certification pathways.
The Digital Leadership Curriculum is the asset behind every program format. 100% insurance-focused. Updated continually. CII-accredited. Every format on this page is built from these lessons — combined in different ways to match audience, time commitment and depth.
The DLC covers the full digital insurance value chain — from strategy through technology and data to the value-chain functions of underwriting, claims, distribution and service. Each course is a self-contained module that can be selected, sequenced and customized to your situation.
The strategic context for digital insurance — markets, disruption, transformation models.
Customer-centricity, digital distribution channels, partnerships and ecosystems.
Data's transformative power, Python for data, visualization, prompts, machine learning, predictive modeling, and L&H / P&C use cases.
Sales tools, L&H + P&C underwriting, digital product development, service & admin, L&H + P&C claims, implementation.
Cloud, core platforms, APIs, the modern technology stack for insurers.
Generative AI for insurance, blockchain, IoT and other emerging technologies in the insurance context.
Leading teams through digital change, culture, governance, and a personal Digital Leadership action plan.
Add your case studies, internal experts, function focus and certification — every program is shaped to your situation.
All four formats are built on the Digital Leadership Curriculum — co-designed with you, scaled to fit your situation. Every format can be tailored for any seniority; audience mix shapes the program design. Volume discounts apply at scale.
Functional digital insurance learning — pick a functional area or theme, pick the lessons that matter, run it with your team.
An accelerator for senior leadership teams — co-branded, customized, run as a cohort over 2–4 months.
The immersive 4–6 month deep dive — complete the full DLC and earn the Advanced certificate. For high-potentials and senior leaders.
Practical, interactive virtual workshop — designed for leaders to navigate digital change and reshape their thinking.
The most rigorous digital insurance qualification available — and the visible recognition for the high-potential leaders insurance most needs to develop.
Cohort-based · 4–6 months · 50–100 hrs · Discussion-rich
The Mini-MBA is for motivated learners with the time and ambition to go deep — high-potentials and senior leaders inside your organization who need to be the digital-fluent voice in every conversation.
Every lesson is translated into business reality through 7 facilitated Discussion Groups across the cohort. Real-world assignments apply learning and demonstrate mastery. On completion, the Advanced Digital Insurance certificate, badge and desk plaque give your top talent visible recognition — inside and outside your organization.
Every program is customized — examples, case studies, certification, branding, scale. Choose any combination that fits your situation.
Pick a single function — Underwriting, Claims, Ops, Distribution, Marketing, Tech — and frame lessons, discussion groups and challenges around that lens.
Co-design discussion groups around your strategic priorities. Bring your own case studies and use cases into every cohort.
Bring your subject experts as guest contributors. At scale, train your own managers to lead discussion groups in-house.
Reflect your strategy, your priorities, your line of business and your terminology throughout every lesson and discussion.
Add individual or group projects, personal action plans, impact journals or team challenges — chosen to fit your program.
Run multiple cohorts in parallel across geographies (volume discount applies). Option to deploy at enterprise scale.
Co-branded certificates and badges from your company and TDI. Reinforces internal recognition and external credibility.
Global cohorts across time-zones. Materials available in 20+ languages for selected pathways.
Four distinct deployment patterns from leading insurers — showcasing how to scale digital leadership capability inside a single organization. Run multiple formats in parallel for shared momentum across one year.
The leadership team at the insurance arm's global technology division wanted to accelerate digital culture and provide their teams with access to learning in digital insurance — with opportunities for deeper progression via the Mini-MBA program.
Multi-program deployment across APAC markets and teams since 2021. Recent deployments include the Mini-MBA program and Team Learning by Function. Annual review of requirements and programs.
Upskill a cross-functional cohort of IT & Business Innovation leaders across 5 markets (US, JP, AU, NZ, IN), improve cross-functional collaboration, and generate innovative proposals to re-imagine insurance.
12 mandatory DLC lessons + access to the entire curriculum, 4 cross-functional discussion groups, and a Group Challenge with team presentations to Global Executives. One group project was selected for ongoing strategic investment by the Group Innovation Fund.
The Senior Leadership Team of a global top-tier Health insurer wanted external insights on how technology is impacting insurance, integrated with their quarterly strategic planning cycle and off-sites to feed directly into transformation priorities.
4 courses from the DLC with core on-demand lessons and 4 virtual discussion groups across 12 months. 4 cross-functional groups prepared presentations on challenge questions agreed in advance with ExCo, presented at each Discussion Group.
A curated, practical, leadership-focused micro-program for high-potentials and future leaders across multiple functions — designed to shift mindsets and give leaders personal, team and business-level digital tools.
Blended format: 4 core DLC lessons as pre-work (4–6 hrs) + a live 3-hour virtual Masterclass split across 2 days. Covered Personal GenAI for Leaders, Re-imagining Insurance, Leading Teams Through Digital Change, and a personal 90-day Action Plan. Co-branded Digital Leadership Certificate.
Cross-program metrics from 50,000+ completed lessons across the Digital Leadership Curriculum.
From mandatory post-lesson feedback across the curriculum.
5–10× better than typical on-demand learning platforms (5–10%).
Of post-program survey respondents reported significant learning gains.
Three decades-deep insurance leaders, supported by a faculty of 30+ insurance specialists, technology leaders and industry experts.
30+ years in Operations, Actuarial, Product Development, Distribution & Business Development. 20 years in entrepreneurial roles in insurance. Based in Singapore for 25+ years.
hugh.terry@the-digital-insurer.com30+ years in Life, GI & Asset Management across Distribution, Operations, Customer Experience, Change Management and Strategy. Ex Aviva CEO and KPMG lead partner for Insurance Innovation in HK. Based in Hong Kong for 20+ years.
simon.phipps@the-digital-insurer.com20+ years global insurance experience in Operations, Strategic Planning, Business Development and Marketing within start-ups, small business and corporate environments. Based in the UK.
malini.nagaria@the-digital-insurer.com30+ insurance specialists, technology leaders and industry experts from around the world — supporting every program end-to-end. Available as guest contributors in discussion groups and as case study contributors.
Easy to consume. Designed to be watched on the go. Built for the 80–90% completion rate that makes the difference.
Lesson introduced by an industry SME with relevant experience.
What you'll learn and why it matters — three explicit learning goals.
Topic-by-topic deep dives recorded by industry experts. Supporting deck for each.
Recap of key learnings plus curated references for deeper study.
MCQs to reinforce learning — required for certification.
Lesson rating, what you liked, suggestions, learning achieved.
A short briefing call is all we need to scope the right format — and turn this into a proposal.
We walk through your audience, your objectives, your priorities and your timing. Agree which of the four formats is the best fit.
We come back within 5 business days with a formal proposal — program design, timeline, investment, and co-design commitments specific to your situation.
Once approved, 4–6 weeks from contract to kick-off. Joint planning sessions to embed your priorities and your design priorities into the program(s).
Book a 60-minute scoping call with Malini Nagaria, Head of TDI Academy. We'll come back with a tailored proposal within 5 business days.
Book a scoping call → Or email malini.nagaria@the-digital-insurer.comSister curriculum. Focused on personal and enterprise use of GenAI. Three program formats — Leadership Edition cohorts to one-day Masterclass.