S1E8 - Women in Business Leadership Speaker Series, with Shelly Johnson

In this WBIL Podcast episode, Dr. Kelly Hall (https://www.linkedin.com/in/kellyreneehall/) talks with Shelly Johnson as part of the Women in Business Leadership Speaker Series. Shelly Johnson (https://www.linkedin.com/in/shellymjohnson1/) is an executive vice president of operations, risk, and strategy at Zions Bank, with management responsibilities for commercial loan operations, risk, and diversity, equity and inclusion. She brings over25 years of combined finance and risk experience to her current position. Since 2013 she started with the bank in Credit Administration as the Intermountain Regional Credit Executive’s Portfolio Manager and later promoted to Finance in 2016 reporting to the bank’s CFO. Most recently, Johnson and her team were key to the operations of the SBA’s Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) for Zions Bank generating over 22,000 total loans and total loan portfolio in the amount of $2.4B. ZB, N.A. was ranked13th in the nation for number of loans funded. Before her career at Zions, Johnson’s professional experience has been with British Petroleum, Wasatch Energy, and a biofuel start up in credit risk and underwriting, managing counterparty lines of credit, global food and agriculture portfolios, small business portfolios, financial trading, compliance, and company policies. Johnson received a double bachelor’s degree in psychology and communications from Weber State University. She received an MBA degree from Westminster College and is certified in Lean and Six Sigma from the University of Utah as well as women’s leadership. She is a board member for Mountain West Small Business Finance, serves on committees with the Utah Bankers Association (UBA), and serves as the past Salt Lake Chapter president for the Risk Management Association (RMA). Johnson has been listed for several years running in the American Banker magazine as a member of the “Most Powerful Women in Banking” Top Banking Teams. She’s also been a past panelist for American Bankers Association’s, Women Leadership Forum. She and her family live in Bountiful, Utah. Learn more about the WBIL at www.uvu.edu/woodbury/wbil/.