What is your company doing to improve Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion?
Photo illustration by Leanza Abucayan, CNN What is your company doing to improve Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion? President Biden’s Cabinet serves as a model for workplace diversity! Politics aside, let’s review President Biden’s cabinet picks: 50% of nominees for Cabinet-level positions are people of color including Vice President-elect Kamala Harris, the first female of Black […]
How Banks Can Benefit from Fintech Partnerships
In 2020, few people view paying a friend or family member $20 for last night’s dinner over Venmo as something extraordinary. Actions like these, by now, already seem like an ordinary function of daily life, like starting your car from the warmth of your house, or your phone reminding you when it’s time to wish […]
How To Mitigate Unconscious Bias In the Hiring Process
Topics centered around diversity, equity, and inclusion (DE&I) in the workplace have skyrocketed lately: and for good reason. Besides the nationwide, humanistic push towards more just and inclusive communities, institutions, and organizations, there are real, demonstrable business reasons for having a more diverse workforce and leadership team. For as much as an organization can tout […]
Diversity in 2020: The Importance of Retention
Earlier this year, we wrote about the real benefits organizations stand to gain if they strive to create a more diverse and inclusive work environment. In the months since we published that piece, nationwide focus on diversity and inclusion has increased exponentially. By now, any given organization’s D&I efforts have long moved past PR sleight […]
Finance and Accounting Functions in High Demand as Lending Volume Surges
Initially, the global pandemic dramatically disrupted virtually every existing industry worldwide. The banking and consumer lending marketplaces were no exceptions. Widespread layoffs, record unemployment spikes, and a highly uncertain future became the norm for consumers and small businesses. However, banks and other lending institutions became inundated with the demands of forbearance requests, PPP loans, and […]
COVID and the Costs of a Bad Hire
It’s no secret that making a bad hire is one of the more significant fears hiring managers and the organizations they serve possess. But just how damaging can it be? How much does it really cost your business? How much does it hurt your career if you’re the one responsible for making it? Furthermore, how […]
A Time to Heal
We typically use our monthly blogs as a platform to discuss financial services trends and share our insights. But, frankly, this isn’t on our minds today. In fact, it’s far from it. Today, we want to narrow down our focus to the great humanitarian causes in which we are all engaged. The past few months […]
How to Maintain Productivity and Engagement With a Remote Workforce
As we march our way through a period of prolonged social distancing, working remotely has become the new standard for many organizations. While we work in an age more suited to this type of disruption than any before, still leaders are faced with the challenge of maintaining productivity and engagement with teams working primarily from […]
Best Practices for Hiring Management and Executive Talent Remotely
It’s likely already been over a month since your office transitioned to working remotely, and still, it seems, we may have several more weeks to go. While some states are already beginning initial steps to reopen, it’s unclear what that may mean regarding timelines for specific offices to open its doors and resume business as […]
How Financial Services Leadership Must Adapt in the Time of Coronavirus
Though we all eagerly await a return to normalcy, business leaders abroad must prepare for both a radically different present and future in the wake of the unprecedented COVID-19 outbreak. With the US economy projected to contract 14% in the second quarter, COVID-19 and the resulting waves it has made through every facet of the […]