Episode 21: Including and leading

Well, I'll tell you what, not a secret to me.

You had mentioned your annual conference and how you started off meeting at the GAC.

But I'm telling you, I was at the annual conference, and it keeps getting bigger and better and bigger and better.

And it was really impressive on many levels.

I mean, there were CEOs there.

There were tellers there.

There were branch managers there.

There were directors there.

It was really neat.

But I'll ask you – What was a big takeaway you had from that event? That's gotta be tough, but what was your big takeaway?

Well, the theme was a continuation from last year's theme, Not Like Us, We're Bold, Mindful, and Brave.

So we weren't quite finished with all the conversations around that theme.

So this year we did a remix to the theme, and it was Not Like Us, We're Bold, Mindful, and Brave, the remix.

My biggest takeaway is that my small but mighty team can really put on a conference.

Most people know that I'm the possibility of people serving other people passionately, and my team did just that.

They leaned into it.

I believe that every participant could feel the care and concern that went into every detail of our conference.

I don't count the GAC when I say this, Government Affairs Conference when I say this, but I believe that ACC has the best conference in the system.

So GAC is the high bar.

But I told Scott, I said, I think we had a baby GAC this year at AACC.

And for me, that's huge.

Well, I'll tell you what, and for me, I loved it.

And one of the things a lot of attendees said over and over again, ah, this place, it feels like it's home.

It feels like it's home.

And it was really, I think Bev from BECU said that she loves GAC.