Our guest on this episode of The Bolder Banking Podcast is Mike Jacobson, President/CEO of NebraskaLand Bank.

Mike currently serves in the Nebraska State Senate. We know you will not only love the story of Mike’s journey, but also his thoughts of how Bankers are uniquely positioned to add value as an elected official.

Our guest on this episode of The Bolder Banking Podcast is Tanya Mims, Fayetteville Community President at First National Bank of Northwest Arkansas.

Tanya serves as a Fair Housing Commissioner, an appointed position in the state of Arkansas. I know you will love this episode as we discuss both the benefits and challenges of public service.

Our guest on this episode of The Bolder Banking Podcast is John Day, President and CEO of First Security Bank in Oklahoma City.

We know you will love this episode as John tells the story of how the bank became a Minority Depository Institution, the importance of the bank in the OKC community and he also shares how the best job interview he ever had eventually led to his current role as President and CEO of First Security Bank.

Welcome to The Bolder Banking Podcast. As you know, The Graduate School of Banking at Colorado is committed to sharing bolder ideas and bolder perspectives from industry leaders.

During this year’s Annual School Session, students had the opportunity to nominate fellow students who are demonstrating these bolder ideas and perspectives.

In this episode, we are featuring one of those nominees, Robin Banell. Robin is Executive Vice President and COO at First Enterprise Bank in Oklahoma City.

We know you will enjoy this episode in which Robin shares an initiative she led to design and bring to fruition Virtual Telecommunications Rooms that customers, local small business owners and members of the Oklahoma City community will be able to utilize for meetings that will allow for virtual attendees.

Welcome to The Bolder Banking Podcast. As you know, The Graduate School Of Banking at Colorado is committed to sharing bolder ideas and bolder perspectives from industry leaders.

During this year’s Annual School Session, students had the opportunity to nominate fellow students who are demonstrating these bolder ideas and perspectives.

In this episode, we are featuring one of those nominees, Melissa Payne. Melissa is Vice President, Service Center and Virtual Banking at MidWestOne Bank. We were joined on the podcast by Ana Maria Senica, First Vice President, Regional Retail Manager, also of MidWestOne Bank.

We know you will enjoy this episode in which Melissa and Ana Maria share MidWestOne Bank’s initiative called R.I.S.E., which stands for Retention, Innovation, Support, Empowerment. They also have an initiative called Women of R.I.S.E.

The focus of these groups is to talk about diversity, share ideas and make certain the bank is opening doors for all employees to help...

As you know, GSBC is committed to sharing bolder ideas and bolder perspectives from industry leaders.

During this year’s Annual School Session, students had the opportunity to nominate fellow students who are demonstrating these bolder ideas and perspectives.

In this episode, we are featuring one of those nominees, Joe Fanning.  Joe just completed his 2^nd year at GSBC and is Senior Vice President of Retail for Bank Of The Flint Hills.  We know you will enjoy this episode in which Joe shares how he implemented the delegation of bank-wide projects and programs to different branches.  The results the bank achieved were awesome and the boost in engagement and morale were off the charts.

Our guests on this episode of The Bolder Banking Podcast are Stephen Postier, from Henderson State Bank, Courtney Parsel, from State Bank of Southwest Missouri and Mike Stevens, President of GSBC.

In the first part of this episode, Stephen and Courtney share their experiences as participants of a strategic planning project sponsored by The Graduate School of Banking at Colorado. This select group of GSBC Alumni formed The Signals Group focused on technology.   Their task was to study technology innovations, their current applications in banking, technological possibilities in community banking and what it all means for GSBC.

Mike joined me for the second part of this episode to share the exciting news on how they are going to expand this idea to include students of GSBC.

Our guests on this episode of The Bolder Banking Podcast are Jennifer Docherty and Terrie Spiro, Co-Founders of Bank on Women.

Bank On Women is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization dedicated to educating the community banking industry on the importance of adding qualified women to the Board and C-suite, and to developing and promoting women leaders in community banking, with the goal of increasing the number of qualified women serving on boards of directors and in executive management.

This was an amazing conversation and we know you will be impressed with the important work the Bank On Women team is doing.

https://www.bankonwomen.org

Our guest on this episode of The Bolder Banking Podcast is Chris Craver, SVP, Head of Digital Products at Valley Bank.

The focus of our conversation was how technology is affecting the banking industry.  Chris has a unique perspective on this topic since he has a banking background and then spent many years in the tech world.  Pay special attention to Chris’ thoughts on what the banking industry is doing currently in terms of technology, but also what he believes the future looks like.

Our guest on this episode of The Bolder Banking Podcast is Tim Ohlde, President of Elk State Bank and CEO of Country Banker Systems.  He is also a GSBC faculty member.

We covered a lot of ground in this conversation.  We started with an explanation of how the Country Banker tool helps banks and bankers better serve their customers.  We then turned our attention to the topics Tim covers when he presents at state banking associations and banking schools when discussing ag lending.  Those topics included energy, effect of the Ukraine situation, climate change, inflation and the future of ag lending.