ENJONLI HUTCHISON | Age: 41 Manager of risk management

Amerisure Mutual Insurance Co.

Dallas

Enjonli Hutchison, whose mother grew up as a migrant worker and became a respiratory technician, and whose father was a water deliveryman, was the first in her family to graduate from college. After receiving her biochemistry degree, she worked as a scientist before switching to occupational safety, then risk management consulting. She joined Amerisure in 2018 and was promoted to her current position in 2021.

How are technological advances affecting your job?

Technological advances broaden our horizons. We’re able to provide the same type of services for someone who’s three or four states away as we do for someone who’s maybe 30 minutes from our current location.

What’s a problem that needs fixing in your sector?

We have come to the end of the road in the things that everyone has been doing for a long time, and with the evolution of the complexity of a lot of our clients, it’s really important to be innovative.

What do you wish more people knew about insurance?

I wish more people knew about the different opportunities and careers in insurance. There’s a lot of untapped knowledge in other degree programs outside your typical insurance degrees that would bring benefit to a lot of organizations, and I say that out of experience — I would never have thought of coming into insurance out of college with a biochemistry degree.

What’s something about you that would surprise people?

I have to talk to people quite often, and I do a lot of presentations, but I’m actually really shy.

What did you want to be when you grew up?

I wanted to be a scientist and started out as a scientist and decided right away I didn’t like being in a lab all day long.