Job Title:  Vice President, Retail Banking Officer & Private Banker
Branch:  South Bend Northwest Office
Years at Lake City Bank:  9

Why do you value working at Lake City Bank?
Lake City Bank promotes a culture that encourages employees to utilize financial products and services to help people. This culture is focused on mutually beneficial financial partnerships with clients, not sales quotas.

How does Lake City Bank exemplify its core value of inclusivity?
Lake City Bank develops relationships with clients, businesses and organizations in every community we serve to help achieve their financial goals. In addition to financial donations and sponsorships, we teach financial literacy classes to adults and youth, participate in career fairs and support our local schools and nonprofit organizations. Lake City Bank employees are present in underserved communities – meeting people with a message that all are welcome, and we’re here to help.

What have Lake City Bank’s diversity and inclusion efforts taught you so far?
Since becoming a member of the Diversity and Inclusion task force, I’ve learned that we learn more from each other as employees of the bank than we do from third-party resources or other diversity and inclusion programs.

Inclusivity, one of Lake City Bank’s core values, underscores the bank’s commitment to fostering a positive workplace culture with equal opportunities for all employees. In 2023, the bank launched We are Lake City Bank to provide employees an opportunity to share their experiences working at the bank.  Read more employee experiences here.