• Mentoring Your Career and Humanity with Burt Hicks

  • Jun 14 2022
  • Length: 51 mins
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  • Burt Hicks is the President and Chief Strategy and Growth Officer at Encore Bank, a private boutique bank that provides a full suite of financial products and services with a commercial focus on businesses, owners, professionals, and their families. As Chief Strategy and Growth Officer, Burt’s specialties and responsibilities include strategic and financial planning, change management, mergers and acquisitions, investor relations, and risk management. Before joining Encore Bank, Burt worked at Simmons Bank as their Director of Mortgage Banking. Burt joins me today to discuss the importance of finding a mentor who imparts wisdom as a professional and human being. He shares what sets Encore Bank apart from other companies and how they uphold an employee-ownership mentality. He describes his takeaways from working in investment banking and how he applies them in his current career. Burt also explains how the pandemic changed what is essential to their consumers.   "It's important when you're young to have a mentor who isn't just focused on your career, but also on you as a human." - Burt Hicks   This week on Priorities Lifestyle: The number of markets Burt's company is working inTheir team composition and what sets them apart from other banksEstablishing an employee-ownership mentalityHow they manage to have employees who are 6-digit investorsWhy semantics matter in their organizationHow technology has allowed them to hire top-level peopleWhat Burt learned in investment banking that he applies todayThe people who heavily influenced Burt's careerWhy mentorship is more than just a focus on careerWhat you can give back to your mentorsLearning what is valuable from the perspective of a buyerWhy every business owner should always have an exit in mindHow the pandemic affected the way Burt does businessThe long-lasting effects of the pandemic on what consumers value Our Favorite Quotes:   "You don't have to do things differently, but you have to be willing to think about doing things differently." - Burt Hicks When you get to be my age, people really do want to help. If you don't ask, it's never going to happen." - Rob Schulz "There's always going to be some type of exit. None of us live forever. Always having an exit in mind is good business." - Rob Schulz     Connect with Burt Hicks: Encore BankBurt Hicks on LinkedInEmail: burt.hicks@bankencore.com   About Rob Schulz and P&L Podcast The P&L Podcast is a show for business owners. In each episode, host and financial planner Rob Schulz sits down with business owners and the professionals that serve them to talk about business building, life, money — and the all-important transition out of the business, which inevitably happens to everyone who has ever founded a company.    Email Rob at rob.schulz@schulzwealth.com with questions, comments, and to schedule a one-on-one conversation.    Follow Rob on LinkedIn. Follow Schulz Wealth on Facebook   Order Rob’s book, Thoughts on Things Financial, on Amazon | Barnes & Noble | Kobo | iBooks | Kindle   Subscribe here: Apple Podcast  Spotify Google Podcasts Stitcher Audible    And, if you enjoy the show, please leave a review on iTunes to help others discover the podcast.
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