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In a breakout session at the 2024 BenefitsPRO Broker Expo, a jam-packed panel including, Susan Combs, CEO, Combs & Company; Eugene Starks, Partner, Acuity Group; Sue Wakamoto-Lee, director of business development, Advanced Benefit Consulting and Insurance Services; Jenny Weaver, national partnership specialist, PES; Jessica Brooks-Woods, CEO, NABIP; Marlin Woods, executive coach, The Woods Plan; and Sims Tillirson, SVP, sales & broker partnerships, BLUE RAVEN actuarial discussed their challenges, backgrounds, stereotypes, opportunities, and the future.

While discussing what dress code was like for male boomers back in the day, Eugene Starks said "When I got into my professional job, it was always coat and tie… I could be in my office and take my coat off, but if I got up to walk around I had to put my coat back on." Sue Wakamoto-Lee, who is from the baby bomber generation, agreed and emphasized the no open-toe shoe policies she experience.

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