Digital Insurance Connect 2025

August 18 - 20, 2025

Austin Marriott Downtown, Austin, TX

Naeill Leigh

SVP, Strategy & Transformation Lincoln Financial Group

Naeill Leigh is Senior Vice President, Head of Strategy and Transformation for Lincoln Financial’s Workplace Solutions business. In this role, Leigh is responsible for partnering across the enterprise, executing Workplace Solutions strategy, and identifying innovations that drive future growth.

Leigh joined Lincoln Financial in 2023 from MetLife where he was most recently the U.S. Business Chief of Staff. In his previous role, Leigh led strategy projects and technology programs, collaborating across the company’s U.S. business and helping to prioritize the most impactful work and execute a new strategy for a global team, aligning resources, technology and goals. Earlier in his career, Leigh worked at McKinsey, leading various large-scale transformation and strategic initiatives across technology and financial services for clients. Leigh also held product management, sales and engineering roles at Cisco.

Leigh holds degrees in Computer Science and Telecommunications Engineering from the University of New South Wales and an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School.

Originally from Western Australia, Leigh currently resides in Cary, N.C. with his wife, Carla, and two children, Ethan and Abigail.

Enhancing the Customer Journey To Drive Engagement And Increase Trust

3:20 PM PANEL DISCUSSION: Finding the Right Strategic Partnerships: Offering Value to Untapped Customer Segments

EY estimates that by 2028 more than 30% of all insurance transactions will occur thru embedded channels. To stay ahead of the curve, it is critical for carriers to identify relevant partners and ensure they have the products and capacity to scale. Listen in for strategies on: 

 

  • Integrating insurance into non-insurance products (e.g., travel, retail, auto) 
  • In-house or outsource: Understanding when to invest in your own tech stack or partner with an Insurtech  
  • Investing in seamless, frictionless purchasing experiences to increase adoption rates 
  • Collecting real-time data from embedded insurance platforms for more accurate risk assessment, and identifying new user needs 

Check out the incredible speaker line-up to see who will be joining Naeill.

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