Telisa Yancy, enterprise president at American Family Insurance, will be the featured speaker at the next Cap Times Power Hour on Wednesday, Jan. 28, at The Edgewater Hotel in Madison.
Yancy joined American Family in 2009 in a marketing role, working her way to vice president of marketing in 2013. She later served as chief operating officer of American Family’s agency business, with primary accountability for the personal, commercial and life lines of business, as well as the sales and claims operations.
Yancy became president of American Family Direct in July 2021, with oversight of the organization’s direct-to-consumer companies. She was named enterprise president of the company in November 2022. In this role, she directs strategy and operations for product, marketing, claims and all business units for both the agency and direct sides of American Family Insurance Group companies.
The quarterly Power Hour speaker series is sponsored by The Burish Group at UBS, Newcomb Construction, the American Family Insurance Championship, WPS Health Solutions, The Network for Technology, Health & Innovation, Inc., and Godfrey Kahn Law.
Among the previous speakers were Craig Culver of Culver's, Greg Marcus of The Marcus Corporation, Brian Raffel of Raven Software and Wendy Perkins of WPS.
The moderator for the series is Mark Richardson, president of Unfinished Business Consulting and CEO of GigBlender.
The Jan. 28 event featuring Yancy will be in the Grand Ballroom at the Edgewater Hotel, 1001 Wisconsin Place. Doors will open at 3:30 p.m. to allow time for hors d'oeuvres and networking. The conversation itself will run one hour and will start at 5 p.m. Tickets are on sale and you can get them here.
Admission is $40 for a single ticket or $295 for a table for eight. Cap Times members can get individual discounted tickets for $25.
