{"id":5171,"date":"2025-02-19T15:42:14","date_gmt":"2025-02-19T15:42:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brokerteam.ca\/?p=5171"},"modified":"2025-07-12T21:47:56","modified_gmt":"2025-07-12T21:47:56","slug":"empowering-dreams-together-william-chans-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brokerteam.ca\/en\/blog\/empowering-dreams-together-william-chans-story\/","title":{"rendered":"Empowering Dreams Together: William Chan&#8217;s Story"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In celebration for BT20, we wanted to take this moment and highlight important relationships that have made this milestone possible. Our first story is from William Chan, President of BrokerTeam Insurance, about how we are <strong>#EmpoweringDreams<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">BT20 has provided me an occasion to reminisce about the past and ponder about the future.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">When I first joined the insurance industry, one of my first bosses told me, \u201cYoung man, follow what I\u2019ve done in my career and you will go far.\u201d This statement made an impression that change is not a necessity in the success equation, and as young as I was, I believed the old school way I was being taught will sustain us into the future.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">When I joined BrokerTeam almost a decade ago, I quickly realized that our organization is not only driven by purpose, but also powered by a constant need for change. Our people are given new opportunities and then they move on to tackle new challenges, new colleagues join us to lend us their ideas and talents and propel us ever forward. We fully embrace change as a means for us to build a better company.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">What a forward-thinking organization I thought. I was thoroughly inspired!<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">I live each day at BTI with the goal of helping others to feel the same sense of inspiration, and I feel lucky to have the honour and responsibility to usher BTI into a new age.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Our next decade will be a monumental one for the history of our organization. I foresee that we will fully mature and realize our potential to become one of the pillars in our industry. Let it start with BT20!<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">William Chan<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">President<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">BrokerTeam Insurance<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5178,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bt20"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Empowering Dreams Together: William Chan&#039;s Story - BrokerTeam Insurance<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/brokerteam.ca\/en\/blog\/empowering-dreams-together-william-chans-story\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Empowering Dreams Together: William Chan&#039;s Story - 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