Jacksonville Business Journal Editor Timothy Gibbons recently spoke with Bank of America Jacksonville Market President Mark Bennett for a segment of the Florida Business Minds podcast.
A Raines High School graduate who worked as an assistant to Hall of Fame Coach Bobby Bowden while attending Florida State University, Bennett was recently named 2024 chair of the Jax Chamber board of directors. Some of the things that I constantly hear from our various clients, in our local community, as well as around the region, is really the things that you can imagine that's impacting everyone around the country. It's all the different macro things that they're facing at this point — whether its supply chain challenges, or its labor shortages, and not being able to find the employees that they need at a local level, are all the different things that you're navigating.
I can go back to the time that I had the opportunity in Tallahassee to work for Coach Bowden as an assistant on his staff — because if I compare some of the lessons learned there to the last 20 years in the banking industry, it's really odd how similar that a lot of those lessons have been. I would probably boil it down to three things in particular. First is how important it is to build the relationship with your teammates, your leaders, as well as the community as a whole.