Community Bankers Summit

Rally Your GSBC Network

GSBC has always been more than a classroom. The Summit is designed to be experienced together, encouraging alumni to return to Boulder with former classmates, peer group members, and GSBC friends. Coming back as a cohort deepens conversation, accelerates trust, and allows peers to pick up where they left off – this time with years of leadership experience to bring to the table.

Designed for Where You Are

The Community Bankers Summit meets GSBC alumni exactly where they are: experienced leaders facing new risks, stewards navigating profound change and bankers who still believe in the GSBC way of leading. This program is intentionally valuable for both senior leaders and recent graduates, offering shared discussions with individualized takeaways based on where participants are in their leadership journey.

What Attendees Take Away

By reactivating the GSBC way of thinking, the Summit equips alumni to lead what comes next, with:

• Renewed strategic perspective for today’s leadership realities
• Peer-level insight from trusted GSBC alumni
• Practical takeaways with immediate organizational impact
• Stronger confidence navigating complexity and change
• A revitalized GSBC leadership network to rely on moving forward

How Those Outcomes Are Achieved

Peer Learning That Starts Where GSBC Left Off

Through facilitated Connection Labs, alumni engage in peer-level dialogue grounded in the GSBC way of thinking. These discussions create space for candid insight, shared experience, and actionable reflection that directly informs leadership decisions back at the bank.

Afternoon Electives with Current Students

Alumni return to the Wolf Law classrooms with new perspective, learning alongside current GSBC students to:

• Get a focused refresh on today’s most pressing community banking issues
• Reexamine familiar concepts through real-world leadership experience
• Gain insight into how the next generation of bank leaders is thinking and learning

Registration for the 2026 program will open soon. Stay tuned for more information.

State-of-the-art classrooms and the CU Boulder campus setting create the ideal environment for focused discussion, learning and reconnection during the Annual School Session.

Reunite with Your Peers in Boulder

Make your return to Boulder a full alumni experience! Reconnect with classmates, faculty and the GSBC community. Many attendees pair the Summit with alumni gatherings and optional social events during the Annual School Session week.

Attendees can also count seminar hours toward Continuing Professional Education. GSBC is registered with the NASBA as a sponsor of continuing professional education on the National Registry of CPE Sponsors. State boards have final authority on the acceptance of individual courses.