By: Adam Lervik - Commercial Banking Officer, Peoples Bank | Puget Sound Business Journal
Adam Lervik - Commercial Banking Officer
As a lifelong Whatcom County resident, I value that this community truly is a place where “everyone knows your name.”
While attending college at Western Washington University, I got my first job working as a bank teller. In this role I came to understand that most customers want a relationship with a banker built on familiarity, trust and performance – someone who understands where they are in life and can help them achieve their financial dreams.
As a commercial banking officer at Peoples Bank, I began working more with physicians and dentists and realized that, just as in banking, the experience they aim to provide goes well beyond delivering expert medical care. After all, who wants to just sit in a chair for 30 minutes and have their teeth worked on by a machine?
They want to go a clinic where the dentist and hygienist know their family, ask about their last vacation, and make the experience as easy and pain free as possible. That’s what creates customer loyalty and contributes to long-term business success.
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