Advisors who are experiencing successwith new ideas shouldn't forget peers who aren't as far along inthe process and may be feeling paralyzed or left behind.

It's one thing to hear about all the innovation andexcitement occurring in the industry right now; it'sanother to experience it in person.

In subsequent weeks, I recently covered conferences presented and attended bysome of the most disruptive and forward-thinkingminds in benefits.

“This room is filled with some of the smartest and mostinnovative benefits advisors in the industry,” Nelson Griswold toldattendees at ASCEND's Agency Growth & Leadership Summit inNashville. “And most of you are prepared to talk to eachother—that's where the magic happens. The key iscollaboration.”

Over the next few days, the conference buzzed with thoseconversations, as attendees shared and discussed ways to lead a“benefits revolution,” including technology solutions andinnovative strategies to not only help clients control costs, butto begin to change the very way American health care works.

At the Q4Live member conference in Tampa the following week,there was a similar feeling of excitement and teamwork in the air,as Kevin Trokey stated, “I believe the greatest time to be in thisindustry is right now; the greatest opportunities we've ever beenafforded are still out there ahead of us, but those opportunitieslook different than they ever have before, and the way we have towork toward them is also drastically different.”

Attendees then received a detailed crash course in a variety ofcutting-edge strategies to “break the status quo,” includingtransparent medical markets, value-based care, and advisors tyingtheir compensation to improved results.

At the end of my whirlwind week, I was left with pages of notesand a head full of ideas. And if I'm honest, I was also leftfeeling a little overwhelmed. Witnessing a sea change is exciting;but it can also be intimidating.

In last month's column, Kevin Trokeysuggested advisors who are experiencing success with new ideasshouldn't forget peers who aren't as far along in the process andmay be feeling paralyzed or left behind.

During a conference break, I was chatting with a couple ofadvisors about everything we'd heard. One said, “I'm going to becompletely honest. When I hear all these ideas, I sometimes feellike a kindergartner sitting in a room full of graduatestudents.”

The other replied, “I know exactly how you feel. We're startingto see success with a lot of this, and I'm always happy to answerquestions or tell you more about what we've done.”

Big, exciting changes are happening in our industry. Believe me,I was there.