Company: WTFCN
Filing Date: 2025-02-28
Form Type: 10-K
Source: 0001015328-25-000093
Chunk: 37

Company: WINTRUST FINANCIAL CORP
Filing Date: 2025-02-28
Form: 10-K
Item: Item 1
Chunk 37
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Learning & Development

We are committed to providing all team members with development opportunities through individual and career development planning. Our employees have access to approximately 500 Banking topics, 200 Professional Skills topics and 770 customized training courses and resources through Wintrust University – our learning portal. In 2024, we maintained an online training catalog containing over 21,000 course offerings for our employees’ personal and professional development and, in 2024, invested more than 177,000 total hours in training by team members.  

We routinely identify and recognize talented employees by performing comprehensive reviews of leadership capability, readiness, aspiration and succession planning. To support the development of our internal talent pipeline, we have invested in a number of programs to support the development of future leaders and additional training for senior leaders with strategic accountability. To support the development of future leaders, over 425 leaders participated in at least one of our leadership development programs in 2024. We also developed the “Leadership Journey”, an eight-phase program that supports our leaders at every phase of their advancement.

Annually, Wintrust team members at all levels certify their completion of regulatory training based upon their roles and responsibilities. They also are encouraged to complete a minimum of two professional development activities each year.

Climate Impact

The Company’s approach in considering its climate impact is currently focused on mitigating the environmental impact of operations, specifically at its various banking locations; assessing other climate-related risks within the Company’s various businesses; and providing support to projects and investments that contribute to climate solutions. In 2024, some of the highlights of this approach included the following:

•The Company continued to monitor the climate impact of its various banking locations, including its corporate campus that consists of three office buildings located in Rosemont, Illinois. In 2024, the corporate campus green house gas carbon emissions (CO2e) totaled 3,692 tons in 2024 compared to 3,938 tons in 2023. The Company also measures green house gas carbon emissions (CO2e) at a majority of its retail banking locations and the aggregate measurement of such emissions from the Company’s corporate campus and the retail banking locations totaled 17,699 tons in 2024 related to 187 locations compared to 18,607 tons in 2023 related to 181 locations.

•The Company continued to pursue certain renewable energy solutions as well as efficient building standards and technologies.

•GLA executes investing through its Climate Opportunities strategy (which began in 2013) as well as additional client portfolios which