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AIG cultivates a learning culture for employees
F
or Christina Alonzi,
there is no such thing
as too much education,
so she feels right at
home in the learning
environment fostered at AIG
Insurance Company of Canada
(AIG Canada). “AIG is a learn-it-all
culture not a know-it-all culture,”
says the senior business analytics
manager.
Thirteen years ago, when
Alonzi joined AIG, one of the
country’s leading property and
casualty insurance companies, as
a technical claims assistant, she
knew she needed more education
to progress in her career. With the
support of her managers and the
financial backing of her employer, she enrolled in a part-time
program to obtain her chartered
professional accountant (CPA)
designation. “I was still working
full time, so I studied on evenings
and weekends,” she says.
Her hard work paid off when
she successfully completed her
CPA exam in 2022. With that
accomplishment under her belt,
she’s now considering the chartered insurance professional (CIP)
designation.
It’s that type of continuous
learning that president and CEO
Pete Walker tries to nurture in
AIG’s 350 employees in Canada.
Headquartered in downtown
Toronto, with offices in Vancouver
and Montréal, AIG Canada is part
of American International Group,
Inc., a global insurance company
with operations in 190 countries
and jurisdictions.
“We ask our teams to be open to
learning all the time. Whether it’s
a graduate who is coming in or a
30-year veteran of the insurance
industry, everybody can learn
something new,” says Walker.
“As an organization, we are trying to be better every day by being
more efficient and making better
decisions. As individuals, our
team members are encouraged
to grab opportunities to learn, be
empowered to own their careers
and be ready for that next career
step.”
“We ask our teams to be
open to learning all the time.
Whether it’s a graduate who
is coming in or a 30-year
veteran of the insurance
industry, everybody can
learn something new.”
— Pete Walker
President and CEO
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Christina Alonzi, senior business analytics manager at AIG, participates in a tree planting day alongside
50 colleagues.
For Alonzi, it’s the people she
works with every day and her
sense of belonging that have kept
her at AIG for more than a decade.
She is part of two of the company’s
five employee resource groups in
Canada. As co-chair for the working families group, she organized
a Bring Your Dog to Work Day in
October. About eight dogs arrived
at the downtown office ready for
duties.
“The energy was so great that
day. We had a couple of dogs show
up in ties,” she says. “We try to
bring everyone together at AIG, so
we feel part of a community.”
This fall, as a member of the
company’s corporate social
responsibility committee, Alonzi
also participated in a tree planting
day. She and 50 colleagues had fun
planting 340 trees at a conservation area in the Greater Toronto
Area. Alonzi used one of the two
annual paid volunteer days the
company gives employees to take
