Practical Banking Education Built by Industry Experience
FI Learning Group provides practical banking training for banks, credit unions and financial-services professionals—built on more than two decades of creating education, certifications, webinars and learning programs for the industry.
More than two decades of building banking education around the same idea: bankers deserve training that is current, practical, accessible, and easy to use.
This isn't our first education company.
Over more than two decades, Erin O'Donnell and Michael Beird have helped build and scale multiple education businesses serving banks and credit unions. Along the way, they have developed webinars, certification programs, memberships, conferences, digital learning programs, and practical resources for banking professionals.
FI Learning Group brings that experience together in a deliberately simple model: relevant education, experienced instructors, straightforward pricing, and training designed around the problems bankers are actually trying to solve.
Meet the founders
Two careers shaped by financial services, education, entrepreneurship, and a shared belief that professional training should be useful the moment you return to work.
Erin O'Donnell
Erin brings more than three decades of experience in strategic event management, education development, financial services, and professional learning. Her career has centered on building educational platforms that help professionals gain expertise, confidence, and visibility.
Before FI Learning Group, Erin helped create and grow Bankerstuff and BankersHub, extending a long track record of developing training programs specifically for banking and financial-services professionals.
Michael Beird
Michael is a financial-services executive, entrepreneur, and educator with deep experience in retail banking, Treasury and Cash Management, bank operations, business development, customer acquisition and retention, M&A due diligence, regulatory compliance, and B2B training businesses.
His background includes building, scaling, and successfully selling online financial-services education companies, as well as helping banks improve performance through workflow redesign, workforce optimization, customer-experience strategy, and performance measurement.
Three companies. One continuing mission.
FI Learning Group builds on more than two decades of creating financial-services education.
What that experience means for our learners
Our history matters only if it makes the education better. These are the principles we bring to every FI Learning Group program.
Current
Banking changes quickly. We focus on topics, risks, and operating questions that matter now—not on building the biggest archive of old courses.
Practical
Training should help someone make a better decision, build a stronger process, answer an examiner, or serve a customer more effectively.
Grounded in banking
Our perspective comes from years of educating bankers and from continuing to work inside the industry, where policies and products have to function in the real world.
Banking education built by people who know the industry.
Experienced enough to know what matters. Close enough to banking to know what matters now.
Placitas, NM 87043
505.300.8658
service@filearninggroup.com