The Rising Stars of Protection: Lauren Hygate

“It all comes back to those real life stories that get shared”

John Brazier
clock • 7 min read

COVER talks to Lauren Hygate from AIG Life about her experiences so far in protection sales and the wider industry.

Lauren Hygate first joined AIG Life in 2019 in an administrative support role, working across the provider's sales, operations and events activities. From there she moved on to the protection consultant team and in August last year became Protection Consultant Team Leader, managing a team of eight people. "Lauren has gone from knowing very little about protection and our industry to talking about it every day, and leading a team of people whose role is to demonstrate the importance of it," says Claire Thorne, head of intermediary support, Sales, at AIG Life. "Her early accomplishments...

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