Lead Elite Academy — Insurance Edition

What one agent walking actually costs

The agency doesn't have a recruiting problem. It has a leadership problem.

Four numbers that explain why you keep re-hiring the same desk.

15%

of new agents are still with the company that hired them after four years. Most walk in years one and two

LIMRA, agent retention research

½–2×

annual salary to replace one person who leaves — recruiting, licensing, training, and the book that walks with them

Gallup, "The $1 Trillion Turnover"

52%

of employees who quit say their manager could have done something to prevent it

Gallup, "The $1 Trillion Turnover"

70%

of the variance in team engagement traces back to the manager alone

Gallup, State of the American Manager

Do the mathTen producers. One leaves every year — that's better than the industry average. At a $65K producer, that's $32K–$130K out the door annually before you count the renewals and referrals that left with them. The team lead who could have kept them was promoted for a number, not trained to lead people. That's the seat this program fixes.

Insurance agencies

The agency grows exactly as fast as the owner can personally close.

Life, health, P&C, captive or independent, IMO or brokerage — same wall. Producers get promoted to team lead with zero leadership training, retention is a coin flip, and compliance lands on one desk. The owner is the only person who can make a decision, and everyone knows it.

The five roles, in your agency

ManagementAgency owner, sales director, team leads

SalesProducers, agents, advisors, appointment setters

Customer serviceAccount managers, CSRs, claims, client service

OperationsUnderwriting support, processing, licensing, onboarding

Back officeCompliance, commissions, admin, bookkeeping

How we help · from the book and the weekly orders

Week 15

The EDGE Framework

Most year-one agents don't quit the business. They quit the feeling of not knowing what to do next. EDGE gives the team lead a way to hand a new producer ownership of a pipeline in ninety days instead of handing them a lead list and hoping.

Week 18

COACHH and LEAD: Connect Before You Correct

A team lead who only talks to an agent when the number is bad is the reason the number stays bad. This is the weekly one-on-one, scripted, that catches a producer drifting in month four instead of reading it in their resignation in month nine.

Week 36

BAMFAM: Book a Meeting From a Meeting

The renewal gets booked in the policy review. The next coaching call gets booked in this one. Nothing about keeping a client or keeping an agent is left to "I'll follow up." It's on a calendar before anyone leaves the room.

Week 42

Define the Non-Negotiables

When a producer walks, they take their habits with them. When a team lead walks, they take the standards. This week puts your compliance, service and follow-up standards in writing so the next hire runs the same agency the last one did.

In the portalEvery team lead gets an order for their own team each week — sales, service, operations and back office each get their own execution rider, and compliance staff get theirs. The owner dashboard shows who posted a debrief and who went silent, office by office, without you sitting in every meeting.Book a call

How this course helps your agency

Fifty-two weeks. One order a week. Your team leads run it, not you.

Lead Elite Academy isn't a seminar your team leads forget by Friday. It's a year-long operating system: Brandon's book, a weekly leadership order, and a portal that shows you who's executing. Here's what actually changes.

Weeks 1–12

Your team leads learn to lead, not just sell

The producer you promoted gets a real leadership foundation: accountability as a process, SOPs written by the people who run them, and how to hold a standard without becoming the office villain.

Weeks 13–24

New agents stop dying in year one

Structured one-on-ones, coaching frameworks, and direction that survives the handoff. Your team leads catch a struggling agent in month four, not at the exit interview.

Weeks 25–36

Producers who stay because of the culture, not the comp

Identity over income, trust as a system, and the follow-up discipline that keeps both clients and agents on the calendar. Your competitor's recruiter stops being your biggest threat.

Weeks 37–52

You stop being the bottleneck

The 70% rule, a leadership pipeline, controlled autonomy and non-negotiables in writing. Decisions get made without you, and the agency runs the same on the week you're not there.

Every week

Riders for every seat, not just sales

Team leads, account managers, CSRs, processing and compliance each get their order translated for their role. The whole agency moves on the same rhythm, not just the sales floor.

Your dashboard

You see who's doing the work

Every team lead posts a weekly debrief. The owner dashboard shows who executed and who went quiet, across every office, without you sitting in a single extra meeting.

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THORNHILL

The trainer

Brandon Thornhill

Former Navy SEAL and nine-figure sales architect. Fourteen years in the Navy, twelve of them as a SEAL, three combat deployments, and three years teaching First Phase at BUD/S, the course that decides who becomes a SEAL. Then he left and built a sales organization that produced more than $100 million in revenue, using the same systems he now installs inside agencies.

SEAL Team TwoIraq, Afghanistan, European SOF liaison

BUD/S instructorFirst Phase, three years

$100M+Sales organization built after service

52 weeksOne order per week, run by your team leads

You Promoted Your Top Producer.
Nobody Ever Taught Them How to Lead.

The agency doesn't have a recruiting problem. It has a leadership problem.

The agency grows exactly as fast as the owner can personally close.

Fifty-two weeks. One order a week. Your team leads run it, not you.

Brandon Thornhill

Stop being the only person in the agency who can make a decision.