Episode 12 Steve Walker - ”Shreveport-Bossier: My City, My Community, My Home”

Steve Walker, Former President and CEO of Commercial National Bank, sits down with Jeffrey Goodman, Director of Marketing and Development with the YMCA of Northwest Louisiana, to answer the following questions:

 

0:45 1. You retired from JPMorgan Chase (JPMC) in 2015 after a 39 year career in commercial banking. You were President and CEO of Commercial National Bank from 1989-1997 and assumed executive positions at the headquarters of each respective entity with whom you worked.

 

You have been honored, to cite but a couple, by being named to the Junior Achievement of North Louisiana Hall of Fame Laureates and LSU’s EJ Ourso College of Business Hall of Distinction.

 

All of this to say, you have had an unusually successful professional career and could live anywhere in the world you chose. We are so happy that you did but I have to ask - why have you chosen to continue to be involved in this community and why did you stay in the Shreveport-Bossier area?

 

15:08 2. You recently were part of a group that put together a plan to buy Southern Trace Country Club from its previous owners, ClubCorp. Talk to me about this process, how you and your group made it happen, what you are hoping to achieve by being membership-owned and some of the changes you have made to the club since the purchase occurred.

 

30:31 3. From your perspective, where is Shreveport-Bossier headed as a community?

 

41:37 4. What is holding us back?

 

48:45 5. What will propel us forward?

 

53:07 6. Lastly, what makes you prideful about being from Plain Dealing and about living in the Shreveport-Bossier area?