Awards and Recognition

CNO Financial was named among America's Best Employers 2019 by Forbes Magazine. This marks the second straight year the company has been recognized as a Best Employer. CNO earned the accolade in the Mid-size Employer category, which recognizes companies with 1,000 to 5,000 employees.

CNO Financial Group was recognized by the Philadelphia Business Journal as one of the Healthiest Employers of Greater Philadelphia. 2019 is the fourth year that CNO has received this award. The award recognizes CNO Financial for its commitment to employee health and for achieving exceptional and sustainable success through a broad range of corporate well-being programs and employee well-being initiatives.

CNO Financial was named among the World's Best Employers of 2018 by Forbes Magazine. CNO earned the accolade in the Midsize Employer category, which recognizes 500 companies throughout the world with 1,000 to 5,000 employees. In compiling its list, Forbes gathered anonymous feedback from employees who shared how likely they would be to recommend their employer to others.

CNO Financial Group is proud to have met American Heart Associate criteria for Gold recognition in the AHA's Workplace Health Achievement Index. See heart.org/workplacehealth for more information.

In 2018 CNO Financial was honored with the Best Employers for Healthy Lifestyles^® Platinum award. This award recognizes CNO for providing one of the best workforce health and employee well-being programs in the nation. This marks the fifth year that CNO has received a Best Employers for Healthy Lifestyles^® award and the fourth consecutive year as a Platinum award winner.

Again in 2018, CNO Financial was recognized as one of the Healthiest 100 Workplaces in America. This is the fifth year that CNO Financial has been honored for its commitment to employee health and for achieving exceptional and sustainable success through a broad range of corporate well-being programs and employee well-being initiatives.

In 2018, for the seventh consecutive year, Bankers Life was recognized in Training magazine's Top 125 for having one of the world's best employee training and development programs.

In 2017, CNO Financial earned the United Way of Central Indiana's Company that Cares award and was recognized as a Top Contributor.

CNO Financial subsidiary Bankers Life was named in 2017 as one of the top five strategic corporate partners of the Alzheimer's Association. Since 2003, Bankers Life has helped raise more than $5 million to support Alzheimer's care, education and research through corporate donations and its signature street fundraising campaign, Bankers Life Forget Me Not Days^®.

CNO associate Matt Brown was the recipient of a 2017 National Jefferson Award for Outstanding Public Service by an Employee, one of only two honorees nationwide. The Jefferson Awards Foundation, committed to powering and celebrating public service, honored Brown for his work with the Alzheimer’s Association.

CNO Financial holds the highest rating from 2020 Women on Boards—a Winning (W) rating—for the gender diversity of our board of directors.