No culture of success or respect
Pros
Associated Bank is a well known brand in Wisconsin. They have a few long term respected individuals within the bank and a handful of others that run their departments effectively by training and empowering their teams to succeed. Truly some wonderful people that want to be successful and help their customers be successful.
Cons
No culture of success or respect. Too many new leaders brought in across the bank based on relationship with top execs or where they used to work but no knowledge of business or market. Relationships are preached, but not followed because the people brought in don't have a history of creating or retaining them. They are academics or transactional bankers that believe every market is a cookie cutter and have no concept of how to scale to meet market segments and demands to create relationships. Sadly, the leadership has driven many solid employees to other banks because of the managers put in place.