The Agent Leader Podcast

Brent Kelly

brent@sitkins.com

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Booking Overview

The Agent Leader Podcast targets independent insurance agency leaders with practical leadership, sales, and team-improvement strategies. It blends leadership and self-development with actionable methods to improve agency performance across sales, service, and operations.

Metrics

Episodes: 317

Frequency: Weekly

Rating: 4.7/5.0

Estimated listeners: 1k-10k

Gender skew: Neutral

Location: USA

YouTube: 14.1k subscribers

Instagram: 549 followers

Contact Information

brent@sitkins.com

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Host

Brent Kelly - Sitkins Group President. Hosts The Agent Leader Podcast, focused on independent insurance agency leadership and total-team performance strategies—leadership behaviors, sales execution, and self-dev...

Booking Intelligence

Booking Requirements

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Typical Credentials:  
Insurance agency leadership practitioners, HR/people-engagement specialists, consultants/coaches for agency performance, or recognizable agency operators who can connect leadership behaviors to measurable outcomes (often with research like Gallup)
Required Achievements:  
Proven leadership/people-management experience, Published thought leadership (books, articles, or widely used frameworks), Consulting/consultative work with independent agencies or teams, Evidence-based approaches to engagement/performance

Recent Guest Discussions

Sadie Bauman - Employee Engagement Drivers, Leadership Behaviors That Improve Engagement And Performance

Chris Paradiso - Leadership Habits And Principles For Long-term Agency Success; Grit/accountability; Ai’s Impact On Team Communication And Execution

Recent Topics

Insurance, Agency, Leadership, Sales, Performance

Episodes

Here's the recent few episodes on
The Agent Leader Podcast
:

What Are You Tolerating That Your Future Agency Can't Afford?

June 26, 2026

Most agency leaders don't wake up and decide to become average.Instead, average happens slowly, through tolerated behaviors, avoided conversations, weakened standards, and leadership drift.In this episode, Brent Kelly explains why the biggest threat to agency growth isn't usually talent, competition, or market conditions. It's the gradual acceptance of mediocrity.You'll learn:Why average clients drain agency capacityThe cost of tolerating underperformanceHow weak systems creat...

Beyond Outsourcing: Building High-Performing Teams with Virtual Assistants

June 18, 2026

Most agency owners know they need help, but hiring the right people feels harder than ever.In this episode, Brent sits down with Valerie Bowden, founder of CRDLE, to discuss why African virtual assistants are becoming one of the biggest untapped opportunities for growing businesses. Valerie shares how companies are finding highly educated, experienced professionals while creating meaningful careers and improving business performance.The conversation goes beyond outsourcing. Brent and Valerie ...

Context Creates Results

June 03, 2026

Why do some agencies thrive in difficult markets while others struggle under the same conditions?In this solo episode, Brent Kelly explores one of the most powerful leadership concepts agency leaders often overlook: context. The way you interpret market conditions, staffing challenges, and opportunities for growth directly impacts the decisions you make, the behaviors you reinforce, and ultimately the results your agency achieves.Brent breaks down how elite agencies approach hard markets, sof...

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