Educate to Elevate with NAIFA

Where Advisors Become Experts

When you become a NAIFA member, you don't just join another organization — you gain access to a powerful ecosystem built to elevate your career. NAIFA equips its members with cutting-edge education resources that few other associations offer, helping advisors differentiate themselves as trusted experts. Members also benefit from professional designations, networking, and leadership training that can accelerate business growth, save time, and strengthen credibility in the eyes of prospective clients.

Education that Sets You Apart

NAIFA encompasses professional development programs, including the Life Underwriter Training Council Fellow (LUTCF) and the Leadership in Life Institute (LILI), that are designed to sharpen your expertise, hone your leadership skills, expand your skill set, and provide actionable strategies you can implement immediately in your practice. For continuing education, networking, and more, NAIFA's Financial Service Professionals (FSP) programs provide ecosystems of knowledge acquisition and tangible applications that keep you on the cutting edge of industry changes. By staying informed and continuously developing, you not only elevate your own career but also deliver greater value to the clients and communities you serve. NAIFA membership is an investment in your ongoing growth and education as a financial professional.

Proficiency (LUTCF)

Since 1984, the Life Underwriter Training Council Fellow (LUTCF) has been the benchmark for new agents and advisors. With more than 70,000 graduates to its credit, LUTCF is an industry standard when it comes to empowering agents with the fundamental prospecting, selling, closing, and management skills needed to be successful in business. LUTCF is unique in its malleability. Whether your practice is life insurance based, or you work in property casualty, or financial planning the program curriculum provides a broad-based understanding of financial services that leaves no stone unturned and instills you with the requisite confidence that all top producers must have. What's more, LUTCF has been modernized with updated content delivered through self-paced online course modules.

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Leadership (LILI)

The Leadership in Life Institute (LILI) is a comprehensive six-month program that focuses on meaningful internal evaluation combined with group connections. LILI helps you discover and develop the intrinsic qualities that make for an effective leader. LILI emphasizes the fine-tuning of the intangibles – conflict resolution, self-talk and rational thinking, and commitment to service – that will result in tremendous growth but personally and professionally. Consumers in the market for the services of financial professionals look for leaders who can instill hope and a positive outlook for the future. Being able to inspire confidence begins with confidence in oneself and the LILI curriculum is the perfect way to hone that skill and chart a path forward. Want to know more? See below for all LILI can offer.

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Continuing Education (FSP)

NAIFA's Financial Service Professionals (FSP) network provide premium professional development resources to financial advisors. The power of FSP lies in its multidisciplinary capabilities, offering continuing education credits for accountants, CFPs, legal practitioners, insurance providers, and more, via webinars and access to the exclusive Journal of Financial Service Professionals. Additionally, FSP hosts the annual FSP Institute, an educational event that connects you with faculty and world-class industry leaders in an intimate and collaborative setting to elevate your professional capabilities. The next edition of FSP Institute will take place February 17–20, 2026, at Lake Nona Wave Hotel in Orlando, FL. Access to FSP resources and FSP Institute is only the start of the benefit of NAIFA membership.

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Educate to Elevate with NAIFA

Where Advisors Become Experts

Education that Sets You Apart

Are you considering NAIFA?Keep in touch with our premier industry correspondence.

Are you considering NAIFA?
Keep in touch with our premier industry correspondence.