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Don’t Just Create a Door of Opportunity – Walk through it!

I had the honor to attend GMC’s (Georgia Military College) Vietnam Veterans 50th homecoming anniversary. I experienced a powerful keynote address from CAPT Charlie Plumb, USN (Ret). CAPT Plumb, a former fighter pilot, reminded us, “life is a choice” and you can “choose to be a victor or a victim” while sharing his Prisoner of

War experience from a 8 x 8 classroom (prison cell). What would you do in an 8 x 8 dark cell? CAPT Plumb walked his cell. He choose to make the situation an opportunity. Yes, it was challenging. Rather waste the time, use opportunities to learn, grow and prepare for the next thing. Value is measured when we are challenged, when we go through pain, when we choose to learn from our mistakes and authentically walk through the door. Expect and embrace challenges as opportunities for growth and development no matter what cell or door you face.

Kristi Greer Senior Vice President Director of Professional Development Community Bankers Association of Georgia

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We invite you to continue participating in CBA’s annual Compliance Program, the 2023 Compliance Professionals Package. CBA of GA continues to raise the bar on our program offerings to bring more benefits and value to our community bank compliance professionals. The Compliance Professionals Package will support your financial institutions strategies for managing an effective compliance program. As your professional development resource, we know you strive to continue growing your knowledge and skills as compliance professionals.

Your Compliance Professionals Package was built using our member’s ongoing feedback and survey results. Thank you for continuing to provide support and feedback so that we can offer the topics and ongoing resources you request.

CBA’s Compliance Professionals Package is intended to educate community bankers on updated compliance topics and regulatory issues that are useful and applicable to the ongoing bank strategy. These opportunities are designed for community bank professionals by providing annual education and techniques for monitoring and enforcing regulations which support the regulatory compliance success of community banks.

Why Join?

• Gain Continuing Professional Education Credits – CPEs.

• Receive Quarterly Professional Education Programs.

• Receive Special pricing to attend CBA compliance-related schools and seminars.

• Access to a Complimentary Legal Hotline.

• Access a complimentary toll-free compliance helpline. Within 90 days after a seminar/school led by a ProBank Austin speaker, attendees may call and discuss concerns with the speaker without charge.

• Collect Quarterly newsletters (InCompliance) that address current regulatory hot topics.

• Complimentary access to the CBA Compliance Officer online forums.

• Complimentary registration to attend Compliance R.A.P. sessions (including Banker Regulatory Forums)

*RAP = Roundtable Advice for Professional Development

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