Nashville, TN – The Tennessee Bureau of Workers’ Compensation recently noted that Compliance Program Director Claudia Byers is being recognized as a 2023 NextGen Award Winner by the IAIABC. The awards recognize professionals under the age of 40 who are making positive impacts in their organizations and in the workers’ compensation industry.
Byers joins eight other recipients of the award this year. This prestigious group creates opportunity and space for networking, sharing best practices, and connecting in new ways. Their ideas and insights from each other may be a powerful next generational step for workers who rely upon this industry to return them to work after a work accident.
The IAIABC will share the NextGen Award recipients’ stories as part of the IAIABC 109th Convention in September 11-14, 2023, at Denver, Colorado.
Byers joined the Bureau in 2018 as an attorney for the Compliance Program and is now serves as the Senior Associate Counsel and Program Director.
Byers was raised in West Tennessee. She moved to Nashville, passed the bar, and began working at a non-profit domestic violence program where she created a pro bono legal clinic for victims. In 2018, she was recognized as one of Nashville’s “Top 30 Under 30”.
Most recently, she was a graduate of the Bureau’s internal Leadership Academy which challenges selected candidates to apply leadership skills throughout our organization. Not to mention, she has participated and won best dessert in the Nashville office internal Chili Cook-Off.
Source: TN BWC