| LOMA
Announces 2005 Education Award Winners
ATLANTA
, September 13, 2005 –
LOMA is pleased to announce the 2005 Educational Achievement, Excellence
in Education and Educational Quality award winners. This year’s winners
represent a diverse group of insurance and financial services companies
dedicated to employee education and professional development.
The
Educational Achievement Awards
recognize the top 15 LOMA member companies on individual, regional and
global levels with the greatest involvement and participation in LOMA's
professional learning programs based on their total number of exam
enrollments during the previous calendar year. The winners represent a
broad spectrum of companies in terms of size, location and the markets
they serve, but all have established a corporate culture that encourages
employee involvement in industry education and recognizes employees for
their individual learning initiatives.
This
year, LOMA has expanded the Educational Achievement Award at the
recommendation of LOMA’s Education and Training Council by adding to its
individual company category two new categories: the regional and global
company levels.
The
2005 Excellence in Education Awards,
presented to 68 out of 1,200 LOMA member companies worldwide, recognize
companies for their outstanding participation and performance in LOMA's
professional learning programs, and continued growth in exam enrollments.
With
LOMA education programs now being offered in seven languages—English,
Bahasa Indonesia, Chinese, Korean, French, Spanish, and Portuguese—the
competition for these awards is fiercer than ever.
“The
Education Award winners understand the importance of employee education in
today’s competitive market, and they realize that professional
development is crucial to both an employee’s success and an
organization’s bottom line,” said Thomas P. Donaldson, FLMI, CLU,
president and CEO of LOMA. “This is an exciting opportunity for us all
to celebrate the industry’s dedication to lifelong learning and
professional development.”
Special
recognition goes to New York Life Insurance Company,
United States
, and American International Assurance, Hong Kong, for being the first
11-year winners of the Educational Achievement Award; and to PHILAM Life,
Philippines
, for being the first 11-year winner of the Excellence in Education Award.
The
Educational Quality Award
recognizes member companies with exemplary employee professional
development programs. This year, LOMA proudly presents this award for the
second time to Modern Woodmen of America,
Rock Island
,
IL
, a member company where 40 percent of its employees are FLMIs.
For
a complete list of this year’s educational award winners, visit http://www.loma.org/EdAwards.asp.
Ceremonies
for the award winners will be held during the LOMA 2005 Annual Conference
& Conferment at the Hilton in the Walt Disney World®
Resort in
Lake Buena Vista
,
Florida, Sept. 18-20, 2005. Visit http://www.loma.org/annualconference.asp.
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