Dorothy Kramer-Kawakami, CLU, LLIF Consultant LIMRA Services, Inc. dkramer-kawakami@limra.com
Kramer-Kawakami works with LIMRA in a strategic consultant role. She is involved in consultation projects on strategic planning, corporate university development, organizational change, and market and distribution development. She has worked with member companies in North America, Asia, Europe, and Australia. She is also the LIMRA liaison to the Specialty Marketing Companies. Outside the LIMRA membership, she conducts organizational development consulting through her separate corporation, Re:Sources, Inc.
She joined LIMRA as a consultant in the Human Resource Development Group of the Company Operations Division in 1984 and advanced to senior consultant in 1986. In 1987 she was named director, was promoted to assistant vice president in 1990, and became second (corporate) vice president in 1993.
Kramer-Kawakami began her life insurance career in 1975 as an independent broker. In 1976 she joined Transamerica Occidental Life in Miami and became brokerage manager the following year. In 1981 she joined James Croke Associates as a consultant in insurance management and executive search. She is a graduate of the University of South Florida, where she also earned a master's degree.