
Erica Schneider
VP OF LIFE SALES
Erica is the Vice President of Life Sales at Divergent Advisors and joined the team in March of 2023. She has been in the industry for 11 years with expertise in the life insurance space. Erica had spent the last 10 years working for one of the industries’ oldest and largest FMOs. Her primary focus, and what she was most passionate about, was managing agency relationships. Strategically helping them build their business by training and educating internal teams, as well as their agents, on ways to position and uncover life insurance opportunities. She has background in Advanced Sales concepts, specifically in the small business space, as well as knowledge in Premium Finance.
In her previous role, she also wore many hats which included creating and leading support teams, streamlined interdepartmental communication processes, and implemented technology to increase efficiencies for internal and external partners.
Erica, her husband Justin, and son Graham live in rural Iowa, on an acreage where they are heavily involved in their family’s Angus Cattle operation. Outside of that, Erica enjoys spending time outdoors and is an avid cyclist; she participates in RAGBRAI every year which is an annual bike ride across the state of Iowa.
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