Should My Son Work Elsewhere Before Coming into Our Family Agency?

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Insurance is oftentimes a family business, but how do you manage transitioning an agency from one generation to the next? Jordan and Justin Goodman discuss their point of view and answer your questions on family agencies from their own personal experience in this episode of the Independent Agent.

Cocktails: Justin tries a Negroni

Part 1: A parent wants to know if they should send their son to another agency to learn prior to joining the family agency.

Part 2: The younger and older generation of a family agency can’t see eye to eye – should they split up?

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Justin Goodman

With two decades of experience in the insurance industry, Justin is the co-founder and CEO of Total CSR and the co-founder and Managing Director of Project 55. By the age of 29, Risk and Insurance Magazine recognized him as one of the nation’s top five construction insurance experts. He has also been named to Insurance Business Magazine’s Hot 100 and was most recently honored as the 2024 Insurance Journal Agent of the Year.

Through his leadership at Total CSR, Justin has trained over 50,000 CSRs, account managers, and producers, driven by his passion for developing the next generation of insurance professionals. When not spending time with his family, he dedicates his free time to speaking at industry events and advising agency owners across the country.