I have spent the last decade inside banks and credit unions, leading data and AI work with small teams and real constraints. I am not a vendor selling a platform or a consultant who has never sat with a loan officer who does not trust the model. If you run one of these institutions, or you are the data person inside one, here is how we can work together.
I speak about data and AI leadership for community financial institutions, financial democracy, and why the smallest credit unions are the ones the industry forgets. Practitioner talks, not vendor pitches. I am most useful to rooms full of the people who actually run these institutions: operators, boards, and the data teams of two holding it all together.
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Most advisory for this work is written for enterprises with budgets and teams community institutions will never have. Mine is not. I help banks and credit unions build real data and AI capability with the people, time, and constraints they actually have, not the ones a deck assumes.
The technology is rarely the hard part. Trust is. Naming who owns the work is. I help you get the plumbing right, name the owner before you sign, and build capability that survives contact with a skeptical team.
Where I am most useful:
Not sure which fits, or just want to compare notes on the cooperative model? Email me at hello@marialaverghetta.com or connect on LinkedIn.