Andrea V. Burckhard

IMPACT Leadership – Founding Member

Andrea V. Burckhard, LUTCF ®, CAP ®, CLTC ®, RICP ®, Agent with New York Life Insurance Company is the founder of her financial practice since 2007 and is located in Cookeville, TN and services Tennessee and about a dozen other States in the country. Andrea has earned her designations LUTCF ®, CAP ®, CLTC ® and RICP ® through the American College. Andrea is also a NAIFA member and a Lifetime MDRT member. MDRT, the premier association of financial professionals, is recognized globally as the standard of excellence for life insurance sales performance in the insurance and financial services industry.

Andrea has been in the business world for forty years, living and working in Brussels, Belgium from 1986 through 1999. Andrea began her career in sales and marketing throughout Europe in the office equipment and office supply industry and set up successful distribution channels in thirty-five countries, while managing a multilingual sales team and building a $5M dollar business from ground up.

Andrea returned to the United States in 1999, taking a short sabbatical at her parents’ home and decided to begin a new chapter as the Executive Director of the Byrdstown-Pickett County Chamber of Commerce, specializing in regional tourism and economic development, and focused on relationship building with business owners around Dale Hollow Lake. She also started operating Dale Hollow Marketing Group which published live annual destination visitor guides in 2001 and sold the company in 2011.

In 2000, Andrea got married to husband Terry and in 2001 gave birth to twin sons, Grant and Blake. Blake is married to wife Cassie and they live in Seattle, WA and son Grant has joined the New York Life practice as an agent in 2021, specializing in business solutions and protection strategies for families and business owners.

Andrea started as an agent with New York Life in April of 2007 and serves families, business owners and professionals by offering personalized guidance and strategies to assist with protection, retirement income, asset protection, business employee retention, gifting, legacy and charitable philanthropic strategies. Andrea has earned many awards including Agent of the Year in 2013, Knoxville GO Knoxville, TN. Established Agent of the Year in 2022 Knoxville General Office, Knoxville, TN. 2023 National Annuity Diamond Elite Award, 16 consecutive Executive and Presidents council levels with Premier Executive Council 2022 as the most recent and served on Agents Advisory Council in 2011. Council is an annual New York Life recognition program based on agent production from July 1-June 30.

Andrea has lived and worked in Cookeville since 2011 and has an office in the historic downtown square. Andrea has been involved and sat on many boards, including City Scape, Cookeville Regional Charitable Foundation, Rotary, WCTE PBS, TTU Friends of the Library and currently sits on the Art Round Tennessee and Impact Leadership Board, where she was a co-founding board member. Andrea also is a co-founder of the Upper Cumberland Women’s Club and a Chamber Ambassador for the Cookeville Putnam County Chamber of Commerce.