About Danielle
Danielle Lukens started her career with Northwestern Mutual in the fall of 2008 as a College Financial Representative Intern. She graduated with her Bachelor of Science in Business Administration with a marketing concentration from Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville.
Her mission is to help others shine by having a vision, creating a plan, setting up an environment to execute while celebrating successes along the way. Through her work in the firm and community – she has spoken at many national conferences, was the first female and non-Managing Partner to speak at the Company’s MP conference, was published by the National Athletic Directors Association and has spoken at their annual meeting in regard to the work with local university’s Life After Athletics Programming.
Being a leader in NM’s nationally ranked internship has been a highlight of Danielle’s career and attracting future leaders to the firm through the internship continues to be a passion of hers. Danielle was nominated and chosen to participate in Northwestern Mutual’s Women’s Leadership program for aspiring female leaders. Danielle was recently appointed a District Director with the Gross Network Office in Saint Louis, Mo.
She and her husband Ben have a daughter, Lennon (7), and son, Teddy (3). Danielle is a lover of being a mom & wife, fitness, coffee shops, books, notebooks, traveling to Arizona and will rarely be caught without Spotify on.
Lending a hand in my community.
As part of Northwestern Mutual, I'm proud to help accelerate the search for better childhood cancer treatments while supporting families undergoing treatment, and survivors from late effects. Here are some of the organizations we partner with:
Alex's Lemonade Stand Foundation for Childhood Cancer (ALSF)
ALSF funds cancer research, raises awareness, and supports the families of children with cancer. Since 2012, Northwestern Mutual, its employees, and financial professionals like me have donated more than $20 million to support ALSF and fund over 400,000 research hours. Every year our agency holds our Cocktails for a Cure event, where we raised over $100,000 for Alex's Lemonade Stand Foundation last year. Our summer interns also have the opportunity to join our efforts by creating fun and innovative ways to raise money during ALSF Lemonade Days in June every year.
How Northwestern Mutual helps you live the life you want.
When people feel better about their money, good things happen—they become more confident and feel more secure. For more than 160 years, Northwestern Mutual has helped people achieve the financial flexibility they need to live more and worry less.
Being a mutual company means Northwestern Mutual reports to its clients, not Wall Street. They don't believe in chasing fads or taking undue risk for short-term gains. Instead, they take a long-term approach—both in the way we help people plan to reach their goals, and in the way they do business. This has served their clients (and mine) well through all kinds of economic ups and downs, including wars, recessions, even the recent pandemic.
It's why I'm happy to be part of a company that's in it for the long-haul and prioritizes clients over profit.
