Seal Your Next New Business Deal with the BDP Risk® Early Access Program

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By Candelario Lopez
Director of Learning Management
Berkley Design Professional, a Berkley Company

June 4, 2026

Are you looking for a way to stand out from the competition and deliver more value to your architect and engineer (A&E) clients—before a policy is even bound?

Berkley Design Professional’s BDP Risk® Early Access Program is built with exactly that goal in mind. It gives your clients early entry to our risk management education platform and provides an opportunity to qualify for an upfront premium credit that would otherwise only be available at renewal. The result: a stronger submission, a more informed client, and a meaningful advantage in a competitive quoting situation.

What is Early Access?

Early Access program gives your quoted prospects an exclusive preview of Berkley Design Professional’s award-winning risk management education platform—BDP Risk®—which offers a range of association registered eLearning courses, tools and templates designed to improve risk management practices and enhance business performance.

Here’s the best part: When a prospect completes a BDP Risk® course before binding, they are eligible for a 15% premium credit.* This early risk management engagement and associated cost savings have proven to be decisive factors in helping brokers close new business.

How does Early Access work?

The process is simple and broker-friendly:

  1. Request access. Contact your Berkley Design Professional underwriter to request Early Access for your quoted prospect.
  2. Platform orientation. Our Risk Management team will schedule a short online tour of the BDP Risk® platform, so your client quickly understands what’s available and how to use it.
  3. Course completion. We keep an eye on the effective date and proactively guide the prospect through completion of a qualifying eLearning course prior to binding.
  4. Upfront credit. Upon course completion, the Risk Management team notifies your underwriter so that a credit can be applied, helping to reduce the first-year premium.

There is no additional paperwork, no complex tracking, and no administrative burden for you or your client—just a streamlined way to introduce proactive risk management from day one.

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New Berkley Design Professional Online Broker Academy! Learn About Us at Your Own Pace

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By Candelario Lopez, Senior Learning Management Specialist, Berkley Design Professional, a Berkley Company

August 6, 2024

Berkley Design Professional recently released a new exclusive service for appointed agencies and their staff—our own Online Broker Academy!

Our Online Broker Academy was created to help answer the many questions our underwriters and risk management staff answer every day regarding Berkley Design Professional’s products, services and resources. The Academy is another avenue for Berkley Design Professional brokers get the latest updates to help them provide outstanding service to their clients.

Brokers can explore a variety of short videos and at-a-glance content on the easy-to-access platform to get the information they need, when they need it and get back to the business of serving their clients.

Our underwriters have created videos featuring the following topics:

  • Prime Program and Applications
  • Per Project Primary Limit
  • Express Program and Applications
  • Express 24
  • BDP Risk Early Access Program
  • And more…
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How Can BDP Risk® Help You? Our Top 5 Concierge-Level Services

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By Candelario Lopez
Senior Learning Management Specialist
Berkley Alliance Managers, a Berkley Company

August 11, 2022

Design professionals and agents are busy people.

Fortunately, Berkley Design Professional’s Learning Management System (LMS), BDP Risk® offers several services that can save them time when they need risk or practice management advice. Here are the top five Concierge-Level services for both design professionals and brokers.

Design Professional Policyholders

1. Anytime Access and Support
Policyholders can access the BDP Risk® LMS at any time from any device! For questions, about how to do something or to start a learning path, you can contact a real person at 831.293.6254. If you prefer, you can also email [email protected] and your request will be answered promptly. You are only a phone call or email from receiving our Concierge-Level services.

2. Course Recommendations
We take the guess work out of choosing the correct course by providing recommendations to assist you in meeting your risk management or licensing requirements. Simply ask!

3. Tailored Learning Plans
We have created Learning Plans for various stages of a design professional’s career to assist you in making the correct decision and eliminating the guess work. These Learning Plans contain the courses recommended to obtain the knowledge you seek and are organized in a specific sequence to maximize effectiveness.

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