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LEAD Division

eveloping tomorrow's community banking leaders through
education, advocacy, and engagement!

About the Leadership Division (LEAD)

The Leadership Division (LEAD) promotes the advancement of Georgia's community banking leaders through:

  • Networking with peers and CBA members.
  • Education opportunities and professional growth
  • Political and community engagement

Each CBA member bank's CEO may designate one or more Leadership Division Representative. These are employee's recognized  for their dedication to the industry and community. 

"Our  goal is to foster a propserous future for Georgia's community banking industry through education, advocacy, and service!" 

LEAD Division Goals:

Each year, LEAD Board Members have the opportunity to serve on the following sub-committees supporting: 

Membership and Talent Management
Talent Acquistion and Financial LIteracy
The purpose of the LEAD Membership and Talent Management sub-committee is to increase the engagement of community bankers. We want to ensure individuals are given opportunities to learn, grow and develop skills necessary to serve as leaders in their financial institutions and communities. Board and committee members are asked to invite banks to participate and serve in the ongoing success of community banking.  The purpose of the LEAD Talent Acquisition and Financial Literacy sub-committee is to ensure the LD is promoting the mission, communicating the community bank brand, increasing awareness of community banking careers while supporting education of sound personal and professional financial management. The annual scholarship offerings currently fall into this area of responsibility.

 Below is a list of annual scholarship offerings administered through the CBA.

  1. Julian and Jan Hester Scholarship
  2. J. Steven Walraven Memorial Scholarship
  3. McNair Family Scholarship Honoring Nicholas R. Cimino
Convention Planning
Advocacy

The purpose of the LEAD Convention Planning sub-committee is to assist the CBA in providing recommendations for topics, speakers, themes, locations, and other logistics to continue offering timely, compelling, and successful programming. The Convention sub-committee recently rebranded the convention and is now appropriately named CONNECT.

The purpose of the LEAD Advocacy Committee is to raise funds for CBA’s political action and public relations funding while increasing awareness of the association’s goals and efforts to support community banking at the Georgia State Capitol.

Events held by the CBA that promote Advocacy are as follows:

  1. TopGolf (two events per year)
  2. Clay Shoots (two events per year)
  3. Cork Pulls (all major education events)
  4. T-Shirt Initiative
  5. Town Hall Talks

Remember, CBA maintains the only state Advocate working exclusively for Georgia's community banks.
Join the Leadership Division

For more information regarding any information above, please contact Becky Soto.

​We appreciate your interest and continued efforts to advance awareness of community banking in Georgia.