Insurance company headshots that match across every office

Insurance company headshots fall behind fastest where people move between desks and firms. In the London Market that can mean a team lift-out. A whole class of business arrives from another carrier, and brokers need to recognise the new underwriters before the first renewal under your name. A new active underwriter, a promotion to head of a class or a board appointment each calls for a portrait at short notice.

Broker-facing teams keep a calendar of their own. Ahead of the January renewals, and before the autumn conference season, brokers and clients look up who they will be dealing with. Underwriter pages, appetite guides and event profiles all need a current photograph. A merger between brokers, a rebrand, or the launch of a new syndicate or managing general agent puts every picture in the firm on to one new website at once. The annual report brings the board and the executive committee. Composite insurers, with large claims and service operations, take on joiners month after month, and every one of them should have a proper picture on their Teams and Outlook profile.

The Lloyd's market is a formal place, and the portraits that suit it are plain. When a broker scans a list of underwriters for the right person to see, our Classic look gives them what they expect. That means plain grey or white behind the sitter, even light and a head-and-shoulders crop.

Composite insurers with a consumer brand sometimes want more warmth on customer pages. Our Environmental style can give it, with your own office softly blurred in the background, while the Standard holds crop and eye line identical to the rest of the firm. The board, the executive committee and active underwriters suit an Executive Day, where each person receives three finished images and every portrait gets more time at the finishing stage. Editorial light, more directional and set against a darker ground, gives the annual report a little more weight without breaking the house look.

Claims teams raise a different question of discretion. Some handlers deal directly with claimants and would rather not appear on the public website. Decide early which teams are published and which are photographed for internal use only. Actuarial, pricing and finance teams are photographed to the same Standard as the front office, so the internal directory looks as considered as the public one.

People book their own ten-minute windows through the link you circulate. That suits insurance better than most sectors, because underwriters and brokers rarely know their afternoon in the morning. A Lloyd's underwriter can window in before or after a stint at the box. A broker can come in between visits to the market. Claims managers can stagger their team across the day so the phones are always covered, and actuaries can keep the morning clear when a reserving deadline is close.

We work from a meeting room near the underwriting floor, so nobody loses time in lifts. Each sitter sees their frames on a tethered screen and approves them before going back to work, which means a busy class underwriter is never asked to return. Because 40 sitters is the most a Standard Day holds, a large claims operation is planned across several days. The Executive Day, capped at 12, keeps the board's session short and private.

The insurance year already runs to fixed dates: renewals, half-year and full-year results, and the reporting cycle. Team moves and promotions land in between, and insurance company headshots taken once a year leave gaps that brokers notice. The Quarterly Programme matches that rhythm: four Standard Days each year with the day rate locked, in London and your regional offices, and offices abroad can be added as Worldwide Days. The sitter portal stays open throughout, so an underwriter who needs a file for a conference profile can download it again without waiting for anyone.

Consistency is the reason to keep coming back. After the first day you receive your Corporate Headshot Standard. It is a written record of how your people are lit, what sits behind them, how they are framed and cropped, and how the images are finished. Each later session, whoever photographs it and wherever it happens, is matched to that document, and nothing is released until each image has been checked against the ones around it. An underwriter photographed in a regional office in the autumn then sits beside a London colleague from the spring without any visible join.

Send us your offices, an approximate headcount by team and the renewal dates you work to, and we will set out a programme.