The High-Five Blogcast: 5 Questions with Eugene Mitchell, President and CEO, E. Mitchell Enterprises, LLC
For this High-Five, where we interview someone who is a close connection and who has expertise about a particular topic of industry and ask them five pointed questions related to their sphere of influence, we welcome Eugene Mitchell. Eugene is a proven leader in the insurance and financial services industry, who now is President and CEO, E. Mitchell Enterprises, LLC
Eugene’s marquee accomplishment is being founder and creator of the $50 Billion Empowerment Plan—the goals of which he and his team successfully achieved in 2017, amassing that amount of in-force life insurance and new wealth creation for over 340,000 African-American families. It earned Eugene the nickname 'The Man with the $50 Billion Plan'
“We’re not so much divided in the black community as we are disconnected, in the black community. And especially in the case of the insurance industry. Looking out across this landscape, only 4% of agents in this industry are African-American. Even fewer of a percentage are managers. And even less are principals, or general agents, or managing partners, depending on what company it is that you work for.
And when I look around, many of them are just hanging on - never making the upper levels of success, let alone making a true and successful career out of this, and | or passing on a business on to their children like I see other communities doing.
To answer your point, and where I am going with this, is that we have to get connected.”
Eugene Mitchell, President and CEO, E. Mitchell Enterprises, LLC