Zions Bank Former CEO Scott Anderson: Bringing Faith in Business and Beyond

Scott Anderson's family has been building Utah since 1847, when three of his ancestors walked into the Salt Lake Valley beside Brigham Young. Their homestead site sits beneath Zions Bank Tower today. Scott went on to run that same bank for 25 years as president and CEO, growing it from $3.2 billion to nearly $100 billion in assets while steering it through 9/11, the 2008 financial crisis, and the Silicon Valley Bank panic of 2023. He chaired the American Bankers Association, served on more than 90 nonprofit boards, and has been called Utah's unelected governor. None of that is how he would describe his career. He would describe it as a lifelong attempt to answer the question the Pharaoh once asked about Joseph of Egypt: where can we find a man in whom the spirit of God is?In this episode of Why We Believe, host Nathan Gwilliam sits down with Scott to trace the faith that has run through his family for generations. Scott shares how the Polynesian people of Tahiti taught him what simple faith actually looks like during his mission there, and how studying philosophy at Columbia left his testimony stronger rather than shakier. He walks through the parable of building on a rock as his operating manual through every crisis Zions Bank ever faced. And he tells the story of a seventeen-year-old pony express rider, his own ancestor, lost in a Sierra Nevada blizzard at midnight and about to give up, until a voice told him to circle a tree and sing until sunrise. He did. He survived. Scott Anderson has been listening for that same voice ever since.Loved this episode?Hit Follow and share it with someone who needs to hear that the same faith that carried a family through a blizzard can carry them through anything. Leave a review for Why We Believe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or YouTube. Your support helps us bring more inspiring conversations like this to listeners everywhere!Visit WhyWeBelieve.com to download Your FREE guide on 13 Strategies to Increase Faith in Jesus Christ, to support you as you strengthen your own testimony of Jesus Christ.Follow the Why We Believe Show:Website: https://www.whywebelieve.com/YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@WhyWeBelieveShowSpotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/6T9DjmWBXJZPFyIFXUCdhmApple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/why-we-believe/id1751537256LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/why-we-believe-show/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/whywebelievepodcast/Follow Nathan Gwilliam:LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nathangwilliam/Follow Scott Anderson:LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ascottandersonTwitter/X: https://x.com/ascottanderson