Annette Dowdle

Annette Dowdle is Senior Vice President of HUB International Gulf South. She leads a team of talented and dedicated consultants to advise clients on their employee benefit programs, including strategic planning, underwriting, data analysis, marketing, compliance, and custom communications.

Annette is on the HUB Gulf South Leadership Team which shapes the overall direction of HUB Employee Benefits. She is also a Certified Corporate Wellness Coach and Certified Health Care Reform Specialist. Annette serves on HUB’s National Employee Benefits Best Practices Task Force, which defines cutting edge programming and services for HUB offices across the nation.

She participates in several preeminent national broker advisory councils, including HUB’s representative to United Healthcare, and serves on the Blue Cross Blue Shield of Louisiana Broker Advisory Council. 

Annette is actively involved in multiple leadership and community advocacy programs.  She is an alumnus of St Tammany Leadership and Louisiana Leadership. Annette was also honored by Risk & Insurance Magazine and Liberty Mutual as a Responsibility Leader for 2010. Due to her work in broadening employee wellness awareness across our community, Annette was awarded the inaugural Willie Paretti Award by the American Heart Association in March 2020.  Her passion is advocating for Health Heart awareness.  She serves as the AHA Heart Walk co-chair for 2021 and Chairperson for 2022. She has been a member of the AHA’s Circle of Red for the last 7 years. She was recently accepted into the Loyola’s Women Leadership Academy and will graduate March 2022. 

Annette has three children; Cole (23) who just graduated last year from University of Tampa and twins Katelyn and Jackson who are about to turn 17. She also has a precious white Maltese named Lexie. Annette loves the water especially sailing and paddle boarding. She also enjoys the mountains where you can find her skiing in the winter and hiking in the summer.

Getting to know Annette:

Q: What do you want your legacy to be? How do you want to be remembered?

A: As a compassionate, courageous and disciplined person (woman, leader, mother, daughter and friend) that made a difference in someone’s life even, if it is small. I want to be remembered as a gracious, kind and respectful person as well as someone you can hang out with and cut up with.  Someone you can be genuine with. 

Q: What is your definition of “happiness”? 

A: Confidence being in your own skin. Peace in your brain. Loving the people you are surrounded by.  The ability to laugh A LOT, especially at yourself.