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This week’s One Take CEO Interview is with Aleesha Webb, vice chair and president of Blaine, MN-based Village Bank. Her second-generation family owned community bank has 69 employees, about $390 million in assets under management and offices in Blaine, East Bethel, Ramsey and St. Francis, MN.
Webb advises business owners to take advantage of low interest rates if they haven’t done so already, and to be strategic while thinking outside the box. Amongst her clients, “there’s this 70-plus year old man that's been in investment real estate forever and this budding entrepreneur a woman that decided to be an entrepreneur in her 50s, and... [with Covid-19’s impact on the economy], “they flipped the situation and said, ‘how am I going to take on this opportunity.’ These two are really nice examples of what people are doing and to what I mean when I say there’s a silver lining to everything.” [She explains what each is doing during the interview.]
Among other topics, Webb also discusses the importance of allowing oneself to feel stressed when something adversely affects employees and there’s no readily apparent solution. “The things that stress me out are never the things that most people think would stress me out. I actually have appreciated the time where I can’t go anywhere because I get to be with my children and my husband,” she says. “When I see our retail team struggling with having to be at the bank after one of our employees had Covid, and how worried they are about their families, that was the part that was hard for me. It’s the soft side of business, the soft side of culture, that if you lose, if it doesn’t shake you a little, you’re not a good president. You need to be shaken, and sometimes you need to not be able to fix things and really care.”
ABOUT ONE TAKE CEO INTERVIEWS: CEOs and chairs openly share how they’re leading during 2020’s pandemic, recession and other challenges during these candid, ‘one take’ unedited discussions with Dale Kurschner, a former business owner, corporate communications leader and award-winning business editor and writer who today helps Platinum Group clients with strategic marketing, strategic communication and crisis management.
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By Dale KurschnerThis week’s One Take CEO Interview is with Aleesha Webb, vice chair and president of Blaine, MN-based Village Bank. Her second-generation family owned community bank has 69 employees, about $390 million in assets under management and offices in Blaine, East Bethel, Ramsey and St. Francis, MN.
Webb advises business owners to take advantage of low interest rates if they haven’t done so already, and to be strategic while thinking outside the box. Amongst her clients, “there’s this 70-plus year old man that's been in investment real estate forever and this budding entrepreneur a woman that decided to be an entrepreneur in her 50s, and... [with Covid-19’s impact on the economy], “they flipped the situation and said, ‘how am I going to take on this opportunity.’ These two are really nice examples of what people are doing and to what I mean when I say there’s a silver lining to everything.” [She explains what each is doing during the interview.]
Among other topics, Webb also discusses the importance of allowing oneself to feel stressed when something adversely affects employees and there’s no readily apparent solution. “The things that stress me out are never the things that most people think would stress me out. I actually have appreciated the time where I can’t go anywhere because I get to be with my children and my husband,” she says. “When I see our retail team struggling with having to be at the bank after one of our employees had Covid, and how worried they are about their families, that was the part that was hard for me. It’s the soft side of business, the soft side of culture, that if you lose, if it doesn’t shake you a little, you’re not a good president. You need to be shaken, and sometimes you need to not be able to fix things and really care.”
ABOUT ONE TAKE CEO INTERVIEWS: CEOs and chairs openly share how they’re leading during 2020’s pandemic, recession and other challenges during these candid, ‘one take’ unedited discussions with Dale Kurschner, a former business owner, corporate communications leader and award-winning business editor and writer who today helps Platinum Group clients with strategic marketing, strategic communication and crisis management.