The Risk Management and Insurance program at Olivet College is considered one of the top risk management and insurance undergraduate programs in the United States. As an insurance and risk management major, you'll experience a high-quality curriculum, learn from faculty who care, enjoy co-curricular activities, gain industry involvement and if you're like most of our students - graduate with at least one job offer.
From day one, Olivet’s team of faculty, professional advisors and staff will help guide and prepare you for career choices that best fit your personality and ambitions. This individualized attention ensures you can attain your academic and career goals if you set your mind to it.
Our Risk Management and Insurance program has a 100 percent job placement rate, and many of our graduates in this program receive multiple job offers with an average starting salary of $42,000.
As part of this program, you’ll have the opportunity to join Gamma Iota Sigma, our national award-winning professional society. Active members travel the country to places like Chicago, Las Vegas and Virginia Beach to attend conferences and compete with peers from other colleges and universities.
Most importantly, Gamma Iota Sigma members have opportunities to gain valuable leadership, organizational and interpersonal skills that will help make you exceptionally marketable upon graduation.
The Insurance Leadership Academy, soon open to 50 high school students in Ingham County, will provide nine transferable college credits to Olivet.
Olivet College senior Blayne White said he took a similar program offered by Eaton RESA when he was in high school at Holt.
“It was the best decision I ever made,” White said. “Now I am able to finish college early and already have job offers.”
Meet Hailey Willett
You don’t have to be an ambitious, motivated insurance major at Olivet College to land a full time job before graduation – but it helps.
Hailey Willett is just that. As a senior Risk Management and Insurance (RMI) major with a minor in Journalism and Mass Media and Communication (JMC), she is one of a kind.
At Olivet College, we believe in our Risk Management and Insurance program. It's one of the top in the country, and we're proud of that fact. But, don't take our word for it. Hear about the program directly from the faculty and students involved.
(Retired) Director, Risk Management and Insurance Center and Professor of Business and Insurance
Professor Carol Breed is co-advisor of the Alpha Alpha Chapter of Gamma Iota Sigma, Olivet College’s national award-winning international risk management and insurance fraternity. She also serves in the capacity of educational consultant for the Society of Certified Insurance Counselors for the Michigan Institutes, and is a member of the Certified Insurance Service Representatives Board of Governors.
Prof. Breed earned a bachelor’s in business administration with a concentration in insurance at Olivet College and a Juris Doctorate at Thomas M. Cooley Law School. She earned the Certified Insurance Counselor and the Certified Risk Manager designation from the Society of Certified Insurance Counselors and the Certified Professional Insurance Women designation from the National Association of Insurance Women. She has also 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.
Prof. Breed has more than 35 years of experience in the field of insurance. She has worked with insurance agencies in the areas of marketing, sales and service. She teaches a range of insurance and risk management courses at Olivet College.
Assistant Professor of Insurance and Risk Management
Michael Weglarz is an assistant professor in the Risk Management and Insurance Center at Olivet College. He is a business leader, and sales and marketing specialist with more than 20 years’ experience working in and developing marketing programs for the insurance, financial services and retail vertical markets. Weglarz has spent most of his successful career working at industry leading companies Equifax, Arbitron and Epsilon where he developed and facilitated strategic direct and database marketing programs for his Fortune 500 clients, utilizing a wide array of customized solutions that include: loyalty programs, and custom and syndicated research, as well as data analysis, segmentation and modeling.
In 2011, pursuing a lifelong desire to become an entrepreneur, Weglarz began and has successfully operated a full service Allstate Insurance agency located in Auburn Hills. Every year since its opening, his agency has been recognized and has received the “Honor Ring -- Premier Agency” designation from Allstate for surpassing client and company expectations. Aside from being a successful business owner, Weglarz is also a pre-licensing instructor at Kaplan University where he helps teach, guide and motivate adult learners to prepare and become licensed with the state of Michigan in life, health and accident insurance.
Weglarz earned a Master of Arts in organizational management from the University of Phoenix and a Bachelor of Arts from Central Michigan University. He also has a multitude of certifications in sales and leadership to go along with his licenses in property and casualty, life, health and accident insurance with the state of Michigan and FINRA securities - series 6 & 63 license.
Weglarz has passion for all sports, as well as a constant thirst for learning and self-improvement. Also for the past 15 years, he has coached high school basketball at his alma mater, Brother Rice High School in Birmingham. Weglarz resides in suburban Detroit, is married and the proud father of two.
Director of Risk Management and Insurance and Assistant Professor of Insurance and Risk Management
Professor Tom Humphreys teaches business, insurance, risk management and financial planning courses at Olivet College. He has more than 25 years of business and insurance industry experience with both independent and captive agencies. Prof. Humphreys has instructed Property & Casualty and Life, Accident & Health insurance licensing courses as well as continuing education courses for Kaplan University across the country for 10 years. His passion for education has been exemplified in serving as president on both a local board of education as well as an intermediate school district board for a combined 25 years.
Prof. Humphreys' education includes an undergraduate degree in Telecommunications from Michigan State University and a Master of Business Administration degree from Kaplan University. He has earned professional designations from the American College, The National Alliance and the Insurance Institute of America. He holds the Chartered Property and Casualty Underwriter (CPCU), Chartered Life Underwriter (CLU), Chartered Financial Consultant (ChFC), and Certified Insurance Counselor (CIC) designations. In addition, Prof. Humphreys maintains an active insurance producer license in Property & Casualty, Life, Accident & Health, as well as a counselor license in the same disciplines.
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As part of this program, you’ll have the opportunity to join Gamma Iota Sigma, our national award-winning professional society. Active members travel the country to places like Chicago, Las Vegas and Virginia Beach to attend conferences and compete with peers from other colleges and universities.
The Insurance Leadership Academy, soon open to 50 high school students in Ingham County, will provide nine transferable college credits to Olivet. 
Meet Hailey Willett
