EDUCATION & MARKETING


Bankers Return to School By Jackson Hataway, Executive Vice President of Communications, Marketing & Member Services


  We hosted our Technology Conference in late April at the Lake of the Ozarks, and our 131st Annual Convention and Trade Show in Branson is right around the corner the week of July 12. As important as these conferences are to our bankers, we know there is another critical element of development that we also are excited to bring back to an in-person format: banking schools.


As you read this, bankers have successfully completed our School of Lending and our Advanced School of Lending that were held May 16-21 at the Columbia Courtyard Marriott. Aſter a year of delivering remote education, our faculty was thrilled to return to in-person instruction and reviewed the entire school curriculum to ensure it clearly mapped to the needs of our lenders. For the Advanced School of Lending, the case studies and discussions were refreshed to ensure participants bring significant expertise back to their banks.


Te School of Bank Management will be held June 14-18 at the Columbia Courtyard Marriott. For the first time, we are condensing all the class work to a Monday through Friday schedule. Participants are welcome to arrive Sunday,


June 13, for registration and an evening mixer to meet their classmates and instructors. We also have worked with the faculty to modernize this curriculum, which now includes new general sessions on topics like digital banking and fintech, while updating our curriculum on topics like investment management and ALCO. Te fundamentals of banking are the same as they have always been, and our school is designed to produce bankers who are sound in all of them. At the same time, we are always evolving the school so that bankers are ready for “what’s next” in their careers.


We enjoyed meeting with bankers at our lending schools and cannot wait for our next group of bankers to come together for our management school. If your bank has not selected attendees for the School of Bank Management yet, I would encourage you to do so as soon as possible. We have limited space available and want to welcome as many as we can to our return to in-person programming. We will, of course, do all of this with safety as our paramount concern, and our hotel partner is committed to do the same. If you have any questions or need any assistance completing the application, please reach out to Cheri Messerli at cmesserli@mobankers.com. We look forward to seeing you all again soon at our programs!


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