Advisor - Carol Breed

Carol Breed is Associate Professor of Business and Insurance at Olivet College.  She also serves in the capacity of Educational Consultant for the Society of Certified Insurance Counselors for the Michigan Institutes.  Carol earned a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Business Administration with a Concentration in Insurance at Olivet College and a Juris Doctor at Thomas M. Cooley Law School.  She has earned the Chartered Property Casualty Underwriter, the Accredited Advisor in Insurance, and the Associate in Surplus Lines Insurance designations from the American Institute for Chartered Property Casualty Underwriters; the Certified Insurance Counselor designation from the Society of Certified Insurance Counselors; and the Certified Professional Insurance Women designation from the National Association of Insurance Women.  Carol has over 31 years of experience in the field of insurance.  She has worked with insurance agencies in the areas of marketing, sales, and service.  Carol has taught insurance and risk management at the collegiate level for Olivet College.  She has also designed and instructed various insurance classes to audiences ranging from the insurance novice to the experienced agent.  The programs include: pre-licensing courses; continuing education classes; errors & omissions and employment practices loss prevention seminars; and designation classes for the Certified Insurance Counselor and the Certified Insurance Service Representative programs.  Carol has served on numerous committees for Michigan’s Office of Financial and Insurance Services and the insurance community.  She is a co-founder and the president of the Michigan Insurance Hall of Fame.  She is also a member the Michigan Bar Association, the Greater Kalamazoo Association of Insurance Women, and the Olivet College Insurance Program Advisory Committee.  Upon completing her law degree at Thomas M. Cooley Law School, Carol returned to the Insurance Program at Olivet College where, not that long ago she was a student, she is now a full-time professor.  She is also advisor of the Alpha Alpha Chapter of Gamma Iota Sigma, the international risk management, insurance, and actuarial science fraternity.