Meet Our Leadership Team

Corporate Vice President - Agency Standards

John D. Garnett is the Director of Agency Standards for the Minnesota, Wisconsin and Milwaukee General Offices of the New York Life Insurance Company.

Mr. Garnett began his career with New York Life in 1986 as an Agent & Registered Representative.  Over the years he has held various positions of increasing responsibility throughout the Agency Department.  Currently, he supervises roughly 160 agents, registered representatives, financial advisors and managers in their daily operations growing our business in key market segments, including the middle-income market, the advance (high-net-worth) market, select cultural markets and the women’s markets.

Mr. Garnett received a Bachelor of Business Administration degree from the University of Wisconsin, a Master’s of Business Administration from the University of Wisconsin – Oshkosh and a Master’s of Science Financial Services from the American College.  Additionally, he has obtained the Chartered Life Underwriter, the Chartered Financial Consultant, the Chartered Advisor in Philanthropy and the Life Underwriter Training Council Fellow designations.

Mr. Garnett holds life & health insurance licenses along with FINRA Series 7, 24, 51 and 63 registrations.

John, is married to his wife Mary Lou of 34 years.  They have 4 children and two grandchildren. They reside in Madison, Wisconsin.

Corrie Haux is the Director of Development at the New York Life Insurance Minnesota General Office. He is responsible for the training and development of new agents and for facilitating advanced business and estate planning classes for the Minnesota General Office.

Corrie started his career with New York Life North Dakota General Office in July of 2000 as an agent after working the previous 5 years in the field of charitable giving. As an agent, he achieved Executive Council during his second year which opened the door to management opportunities within New York Life. Corrie has been a Sales Development Manager for New York Life Insurance since 2002. (North Dakota General Office 2002-2010 and Minnesota General Office 2010—Present) and has received several promotions during that time.

In addition to his duties here in the Minnesota General Office, he is one of a handful of Development Managers in our Company teach annually at New York Life’s national training center in Dallas.  Some of the courses that he has facilitated there are: the New York Life Career Development Conferences, New York Life Business Planning Graduate Path Capstone and Leaders for Life Conference. Corrie has obtained several professional designations including:  LUTCF^®, CLTC^®, CLU^®, ChFC^®, CASL^®, CLF^® and CAP^® from The American College and a current member of Minnesota NAIFA.

One of the greatest rewards I have found in this career is the ability to help shape and guide our agents’ careers. During my tenure I have seen agents progress on to bigger and better goals in their New York Life careers. I have been fortunate to see agents in my GO’s achieved various goals:   Council levels and Million Dollar Round Table membership, five agent have gone on to become Managing Partners in other New York Life General Office, six additional agents became Partners and four have become Sales Development Manager in other New York Life General Office. It has been a pleasure for me to help these individuals pursue and attain their goals. Corrie is married to Michelle and resides in Bloomington, MN. They have two wonderful children, Alayna and Gregory.

Sales Development Manager

David started with New York Life in January 2013 as an agent in the Minnesota General Office after working in restaurant management and wine and liquor sales.  He became a Sales Development Manager in December 2017 and works closely with new agents as they progress through our training program.  He has lived in Minnesota most of his life and graduated from the University of Minnesota.  He and his wife, Kim, have a daughter, Madilyn, who was born in August 2016.  Kim has been a manager at a local consignment store for over 20 years.  They enjoy spending time with friends and family and try to get out on the lake as much as possible.

Director of Recruiting

Emma Ishol serves as the Director of Recruiting for the Minnesota General Office. Emma joined New York life in 2019. In her role as Director of Recruiting, Emma oversees the entire hiring process of new agents from candidate sourcing and interviews; to onboarding and agent development. Emma is passionate about building a strong culture of agents with diverse backgrounds and experiences.

Operations Manager

Michael is from Grand Rapids, MI where he attended Ferris State University and earned his Bachelors degree in Elementary Education with minors in Mathematics and Science. He worked as a middle school math and science teacher for eight years in Raleigh, North Carolina. In 2013 Michael moved to Albuquerque, NM to begin his career with New York Life as an Associate Administrative Manager. Upon completion of his training in 2014, he transitioned into the Operations Manager role in the Minnesota General Office.