Executive Disability

Offer tailored protection that supports your most impactful leaders

Help to close the income protection gap for high-earning employees in key leadership roles, so coverage scales with their compensation, and their financial confidence remains strong enough to keep their talent with you.


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Valuable options for comprehensive income protection

Employees rely on group disability insurance if they need to take a leave from work. But for your key leaders and crucial decision-makers, group long term disability insurance may not provide enough financial confidence if they need to be out of work for an extended period. That's where Executive Disability works to complement your existing group long term disability offering.

Here's an example of how the two work together to offer enhanced financial confidence.

Bar chart showing how individual disability income insurance complements group disability insurance.

Income protection supports financial wellness

The truth is that people of all ages, demographics, and professions have roughly the same potential to experience an income-disrupting injury or illness. Disability insurance protects not only your income, but your lifestyle and financial wellbeing. If you become disabled, it can help you meet financial obligations for you and your family and allow you the time and space needed to recover.

  • 1 in 4

    Around 1 in 4 working Americans a year will experience a disability leave each year lasting over 90 days. More than 25% of today’s 20-year-olds can expect to become disabled and be out of work for at least a year during their career.

  • Top 10%

    As of 2024, even the top 10% of income earners in the US didn’t feel financially secure.1

Experienced. Reliable. Empathetic.

Learn how group disability income insurance helps protect your workforce

When you trust Guardian with employee benefits, we ensure that our disability insurance works in lockstep with each employee’s leave requirements and other Guardian benefits — without a lot of work from the employee, or you.

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Guardian’s Group Long Term and Short Term Disability Insurance is underwritten and issued by The Guardian Life Insurance Company of America, New York, NY. Products are not available in all states. Policy limitations and exclusions apply. Optional riders and/or features may incur additional costs. Generic Policy Form #s GP-1-LTD-15 and GP-1-STD-15. The state approved form is the governing document.

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