Description

A focused course, tailored for you

Specialty Insurance PM's Programme-Authorship Playbook

How a specialty insurance project manager authors a programme finance protects when the carrier rolls out AI underwriting.

When the new underwriting assistant starts triaging E&S submissions before underwriters open them, the work coming out of project management stops landing the same way.

$199 one-time

Tailored to your situation. Access within 24 hours. 30-day money-back.

Includes a hand-built implementation playbook delivered alongside course access, generated for your specific situation.

Why this course

When the underwriting assistant rolls out and starts triaging submissions before underwriters open them, your status reports start reading thin. The work you did still mattered. The assistant absorbed the layer the reports were summarising. Status meetings shift. The line leader starts asking different questions.

The PMs who come out of that rollout with a programme-lead title are the ones who already framed their work that way. Their projects rolled up to one programme finance protected. Their weekly was already at line-leader level. Their scope statement already drew the line between PM work and programme leadership.

This course is the three artefacts and the operating cadence to land them. Plus a 90-day implementation playbook built against your live project mix.

What you walk away with

An authored programme with finance-readable economics.
A programme-state artefact the line leader reads first.
A defensible scope statement distinguishing PM work from programme leadership.
A clean translation from 'project manager' to 'authored-programme owner' on a specialty insurance workload.
A defensible answer when the operating-model review asks which programme your work is associated with.
A 90-day plan from generic PM to authored-programme framing.

The 12 modules

Module 1. Reading the AI underwriting rollout for PM-level implications

AI underwriting reaches delivery functions in the same review. The diagnostic for the PM layer.

Module 2. Project management vs programme authorship

Two structurally different framings. The structural difference. The three artefacts authorship requires.

Module 3. Your authored programme

Frame your current projects as one programme authored under your name. Economics, milestones, governance. The programme document finance reads.

Module 4. Programme-state artefact for the line leader

Format, cadence, content the line leader reads first. Three worked examples calibrated for specialty insurance delivery.

Module 5. Scope statement: PM vs programme owner

Two overlapping seats. The scope statement that puts you in the programme-owner track defensibly.

Module 6. Working with underwriting, claims, and actuarial partners

Specialty insurance programmes overlap underwriting, claims, and actuarial. The collaboration pattern. The credit-sharing.

Module 7. AI-underwriting rollout sequencing

AI rollouts in underwriting have specific sequencing (pilot, scale, generalise, sunset). The PM artefacts that protect work through each phase.

Module 8. Regulatory and compliance dependencies

Specialty insurance programmes have regulatory dependencies (NAIC, state, ICS). The dependencies most PMs miss until examination.

Module 9. Cross-portfolio leverage and reusable PM patterns

Reusable PM patterns (intake triage, milestone framing, escalation rhythm) that strengthen authorship across programmes.

Module 10. Working with the CIO office and the COO office

Authored programmes need both CIO and COO sponsorship. The conversation pattern.

Module 11. Promotion mechanics inside specialty insurance delivery

Internal path from PM to programme manager or programme director. The promotion artefact.

Module 12. Your 90-day move to authored-programme framing

Day-by-day plan. Authored programme draft in week one. Programme-state artefact v1 in week two. Scope statement in week three. Line leader conversation in month two. Authored-programme conversation in month three.

How this addresses your situation

Specific modules that map to what you said you are dealing with.

Modules 1 and 2 cover the diagnostic for a PM at a specialty carrier rolling out AI underwriting.

Modules 3 to 5 produce the three artefacts (authored programme, programme-state artefact, scope statement) every authored-programme PM has.

Modules 6 to 9 cover cross-function cadence, rollout sequencing, regulatory dependencies, and reusable patterns.

Modules 10 to 12 cover CIO/COO partnership, promotion, and 90-day execution.

What you get with this course

The 12-module course delivered as text plus downloadable templates.
Templates for the authored programme, the programme-state artefact, and the scope statement.
A hand-built implementation playbook generated for your specific seat (PM at a specialty carrier in an AI underwriting rollout).
Three worked examples of the programme-state artefact (calibrated for different specialty-insurance programmes).
Scripted talking points for the line leader conversation about authored-programme framing.

What you will have in hand by Day 1, Week 1, Month 1

Day 1: Authored programme scaffold drafted; programme-state artefact format chosen.

Week 1: Authored programme v1 written; programme-state artefact v1 drafted.

Month 1: Programme-state artefact landing with line leader weekly; authored-programme conversation scheduled.

Before and after

Before

You run projects. Milestones land. The AI underwriting rollout is in progress. The line leader knows your work. There is no document with your name on it that frames the projects as one programme. The programme manager conversation has not started.

After

Your authored programme is the document the line leader reads first. The programme-state artefact lands with line leadership weekly. The scope statement is what the next operating-model review cites. The programme manager conversation is scheduled.

What happens if you do not address this

AI underwriting rollouts reach delivery functions within one or two operating-model cycles. PMs without an authored programme get the project-redistribution outcome. The window to author is the weeks before the next operating-model review.

Who it is for

For Project Managers, Senior PMs, and Programme Managers at specialty insurance carriers rolling out AI-augmented underwriting or operations.

Who this is NOT for. PMs running pure technology infrastructure rollouts with no operations-or-underwriting scope. PMs at carriers not in AI-augmented underwriting rollout. Junior PMs still ramping.

How it arrives

Text-based course via LMS, plus downloadable templates and the hand-built implementation playbook.

Time investment. Roughly 10 hours of reading and 12 to 16 hours producing your real artefacts against your live projects.

Why $199 is the right number

Internal insurance PM training is PMI-style. External insurance communities cover technique not the authored-programme move during AI-underwriting rollouts. A senior programme director mentor would cover maybe four of these 12 modules informally. $199 buys the focused playbook plus the implementation document for your live programme.

FAQ

Will the line leader actually read my programme-state artefact?

Module 4 is built so the artefact lands as a time-saver in the line leader's existing reporting. Three worked examples included.

What if my projects span underwriting and claims?

Module 6 covers that case. Cross-function programmes can be framed as one authored programme if the dependencies are explicit. Worked example included.

Why pay for this instead of reading free PMI content?

PMI content teaches PM technique. This teaches the authored-programme move at PM level during a specialty insurance AI underwriting rollout. Different artefacts, populated for your real seat.

What if my CIO and COO offices are not coordinating?

Module 10 covers that case. Authored programmes that bridge a CIO/COO gap are protected by both offices once the bridge is documented. Worked example included.

What is in the implementation playbook for me specifically?

A populated authored programme against your real projects; a draft programme-state artefact; a 90-day visibility plan with scripted conversations against your line leader and CIO/COO partner.

30-day money-back guarantee. If after a week of working through the materials this is not what you needed, reply to the receipt email and a full refund is processed. No questions, no forms.

Within 24 hours your account in the learning environment is provisioned and the tailored implementation playbook is delivered alongside it.