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Manja Kollmann

Manja Kollmann

Chief Operating Officer at Liberty Mutual Reinsurance with 20+ years in insurance and reinsurance across Germany, UK, South Korea and Turkey.

Aug 20, 2026

10:57
How do you navigate rebuilding your identity, your professional identity and your professional understanding articulation of who you are every time you move to a new country or a company? How have you navigated that over
11:13
the years? I think that's a really interesting question.
11:20
If I may, I'd like to, not correct, but maybe challenge a bit the ongoing hypothesis.
11:26
And let me explain why.
11:27
I know it's a cliche, but we keep saying it's a small world and the insurance industry is even smaller.
11:32
I think there's a lot of truth in this.
11:34
So personally, despite the different companies and countries, I truly and truthfully have never entered an organization where no one knew me or had heard me.

32 MINS LATER

43:26
i love that that is so good yeah have five topics ready for you and you can just rotate and write rightly oh that great this is this is so much good content right i'm very conscious that i like a part two is invented like it needs to happen at some point um before we finish one question that I really wanted to ask you again based on your experience one most surprising thing that you've experienced in one of the countries and I appreciate that may be a story or maybe a sort of a cultural shock whatever it is but what's one thing that so far has most stood out for you

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