GSBC Graduates

GSBC Graduates Five Kentucky Bankers

The Graduate School of Banking at Colorado (GSBC) is proud to announce the graduation of five Kentucky financial professionals (pictured below) who have completed the school’s state-of-the-art graduate school of banking program.

The graduates include:

• Christina Cook, Citizens Guaranty Bank, Irvine • James Ensminger, Central Bank & Trust Co. • Heidi Estes, Franklin Bank & Trust, Franklin • Katina Mickens, First Federal Savings Bank of KY • Brandy Wiser, Citizens National Bank of Lebanon

Graduates receive their GSBC diplomas upon successfully completing three annual two-week sessions of classroom training on the University of Colorado Boulder campus in Boulder, Colo. The above individuals were among 141 students honored in a ceremony on July 29, 2021. GSBC’s curriculum is community banking-focused, delivered by expert faculty which covers four tracks: financial management, general management & technology, leadership & human resources, and lending. The students also complete six immersive intersession research projects throughout their time in the program.

The program’s capstone course is an in-depth bank management simulation, where students assume the roles of senior management of a commercial bank, involving themselves in the group dynamics and managerial skills of managing a bank in a competitive environment with changing economic conditions.

GSBC celebrated its milestone 70th annual school session July 18-30, 2021, hosting students both in person and virtually from across the U.S.