Mikelle Holt Brady

Mikelle Holt Brady, Partner

Mikelle’s experience with financial institutions makes her a leading consultant in the retail banking arena. Her banking career spans 30 years, beginning at a bank in Cincinnati, Ohio, where she gained knowledge and experience in retail banking and customer service. After joining PRI in 2003, Mikelle immediately developed expertise in procedure documentation, workflow reengineering, and project management with large institutions in documenting payment processing risk, loan post closing reengineering, lockbox operations standardization, and billing.

With community banks, Mikelle works on the retail side of the bank improving process efficiency and organizational structure.  She additionally facilitates strategic planning for community banks and works to appropriately staff all PRI projects to ensure client success.

Mikelle is an instructor at the ABA Stonier Graduate School of Banking (a Wharton School partner), teaching “Strategies for Increasing Non-Interest Income.”  She has developed educational sessions that were delivered to hundreds of bankers on topics related to bank profitability.

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Thursday, May 28th, 2026

Best Practices for Effective Capacity Planning 

For financial institutions, capacity planning is not just a staffing exercise—it’s a strategic growth tool. However, banks that rely solely on transaction counts or historical staffing formulas often miss the operational realities—and opportunities—that drive productivity, service quality and profitability. Supercharging capacity […]

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Monday, May 11th, 2026

Core Conversions Aren’t the End of the World

For many community banks, few phrases carry more weight or anxiety than “core conversion.” The mental image is familiar: long weekends, strained teams, frustrated customers, and months of cleanup. That reputation has become a kind […]

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Wednesday, Apr 29th, 2026

Why Every Community Needs “Its Bank”: Legends Bank’s Commitment to Middle Tennessee

Community banks have always played an outsized role in strengthening local economies, and during Community Banking Month, that impact deserves recognition. According to the Independent Community Bankers of America (ICBA), community banks provide nearly 60% […]

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