Brokers will, in essence, be the televangelist of health care reform, spreading hope and stoking the fires of change among their clients.

What will the health care and benefits industry look like five years from now? Perhaps there's no better group of people to ask than our Broker of the Year finalists, five individuals leading the charge of disruption and reform in the industry. Where are they taking us? Or rather, where are we taking ourselves?

“It takes a movement of many of us saying the same thing and going in the same direction,”  Kareim Cade of Great Lakes Benefits Group said in a panel Q&A before the Broker of the Year announcement the BenefitsPRO Broker Expo in Miami. “It's being bold–bold enough to say this is wrong and things need to be fixed, and not apologizing for that.”

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Emily Payne

Emily Payne is director, content analytics for ALM's Business & Finance Markets and former managing editor for BenefitsPRO. A Wisconsin native, she has spent the past decade writing and editing for various athletic and fitness publications. She holds an English degree and Business certificate from the University of Wisconsin.