There are a great many insurance designations. Most of them have a very similar model:
• Take the course/courses • Learn great information from expert instructors • Take the test/tests • Earn the Designation
That’s where it ends. Perhaps there is some flavor of a continuing education requirement, but the designation is the finish line.
Here at the Institute, our job is only beginning when you earn the Certified WorkComp
Advisor Designation.
Here is Kevin Ring, our Lead Workers’ Comp Analyst, with just some of the more than 1100 experience mod worksheets he has reviewed with Advisors over the past nine years.
Not only mod worksheets, Advisors have unlimited access to our team of experts for help with audits, employee injury problems, and more. We become your Workers’ Comp Help Desk.™
MISSION: The Institute trains, certifies, and mentors Independent Agents in a process that helps them write more business and gets better results for their clients.
7 Secrets that Cost
Your Client a Bundle on
their Workers' Comp
Getting and Keeping Clients
The days of sounding alike, doing alike are over. The Institute is all about changing the conversation to help you:
• Write more business • Get better results for your clients • Help you turn your promises into performance so you keep those clients for life
As the Uncommon Training Company,™ the Institute works with you, turning your intellectual capital into financial capital. Learn it, Sell it, add new clients.
EMPLOYERS
Do you feel out-of-control
when it comes to dealing with
your Worker’s Compensation?
Do you believe that the
insurance company just sets
a rate & you have no choice
but to pay it?
Institute membership is designed to help you get the most out of your agency.
Enrolling in the CWCA allows you and your staff to earn the Certified WorkComp Advisor designation (Live or On-Demand) and Certified WorkComp Specialist designations. But that’s just the beginning! After earning your designation, you’ll have unlimited access to our team of experts as they help you untangle your toughest workers’ comp problems.
This is a program designed to help you grow—not just so you can pass a test, but so you can take what you learn to grow your agency and get better results for your clients.
In over 30 years in the insurance industry, it has become extremely evident that certain relationships have proven to be invaluable to my success and the success of our agency. The Institute has proven time and time again to be one of the best resources that you can have that provides you with information, ideas, and a daily concern for your success in producing and retaining not only workers’ compensation accounts but helping you to stay on track as you grow. Do not miss the opportunity to build this relationship with the Institute. Your partnership with Preston and Kevin will not let you down.
Tim Hile – Ottawa Kent, MI
Being affiliated with the Institute has been very, very good for my wallet. I’ve learned a lot of wonderful tools as well as just concepts for helping people understand how workers’ comp works.
Tim Hile – Ottawa Kent, Jenison, MI
Jefferson City MO
A Member of Keystone Insurers Group
Pres, “I truly did not know exactly what to expect when Kevin and you visited our agency It was really good with great ideas. Very cool.” I certainly did not think our team would receive the follow up it has. The in-agency Institute and follow up has changed how some producers now do business, and the other producers are “coming around.” Working closely with Steve, a 14 – year producer, has absolutely moved Steve from quoting to just “having a persuasive conversation” with potential clients. This has paid off in his best production year. We’re excited you are revisiting and looking forward to more of our producers embracing the Institute process and changing the way employers see our agency and their insurance.
Shaun Irwin
Associated Benefits and Risk Consulting, MN
Absolutely deserved by one of my favorite people in business. Preston transformed our agency from a pretty vanilla operation into a vital part of our community, saving lives through better understanding and
processes that produced incredible results for our clients. Thank you Preston!
Brett Gamso
Brier, Payne & Meade Insurance
First of all, thank you & the Institute for your communications recently on COVID-19 resources. As an agency, the insurance industry’s response to Business Income was our client’s biggest concern & questions for the first couple weeks. Now that has transitioned to Workers’ Comp and how the various States are treating COVID-19 claims and what employers need to know. So thank you for the helpful info, including the link to that attorney in IL’s memo as well as the link to the NCCI page for State’s legislative activity.
Owen Taylor
When Owen Taylor of Owen-Dunn Insurance Services was visiting Asheville, he told Kevin and me, “There is no better training to jump-start a producer than your work comp training. I can provide the other coverage learning in-house, but with your work comp training and support, producers have the confidence to move forward with all lines.
Matt Stalter Joseph M Wiedemann
St. Charles, IL
One 30 minute work comp review. That’s all it took for me to save this business owner $31,351 on his work comp.
They had been with the same agent for years and had never had a class code rate and credit review. They thought “work comp is what it is”. After one review I was able to show this business owner that nothing could be further from the truth….. *Just wait till I tell you next time about their audits.
“The Institute has revolutionized our business. For the first time in years, I love going to work. I was ready to call it quits. Then I found the Institute. It put fun back into my insurance life. I’m still having fun writing larger accounts than I ever did before.”
“The Institute has revolutionized our business. For the first time in years, I love going to work. I was ready to call it quits. Then I found the Institute. It put fun back into my insurance life. I’m still having fun writing larger accounts than I ever did before.”
“Have anyone, anytime call me. (As long as they’re not in Western North Carolina)I’ll tell them to change, heck, even cancel, appointments, to get to one of your Institutes. It’s such an advantage for me and such a great service for an employer, I’m amazed everyone you talk to doesn’t attend. Keep up the continuing stream of powerful knowledge that keeps me ahead of all my competitors.
You’ve made me a WorkComp believer”
“Your team consistently earns the support. I am truly appreciative that you keep raising the bar and allow us the absorb and reap the benefits.”
Think of me as all sponge!
Yours to count on,You’ve made me a WorkComp believer”
In two days, I learned more and actual ways to help my clients than my prior 14 years of insurance experience. You’ve made me a WorkComp believer”
This is definitely an eye-opeing and educations, and inspiring experience. The Institute has so much to offer with knowledge and experience and can help your agency on a path to success with leading with Workers' Comp.
EVENTS
In-Person CWCA
Oct 8-9 Live CWCA Institute Sheraton Suites Chicago O’Hare (800AM-500PM CT Wed. 8th & 800AM-330PM CT Thurs. 9th )
Virtual CWCA
Oct 14-16, 2025 Virtual CWCA (1030-245 ET Each Day)