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2025 Networking Groups: Leadership Cohort

Thursday, July 10, 2025
9:00 AM - 3:00 PM (CDT)
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Event Details

This is a high-level, interactive forum designed for banking executives seeking to enhance their leadership capabilities and elevate their organization's growth trajectory. This program offers two distinct, yet complementary tracks focused on Culture & Strategic Planning and Business Growth, with an emphasis on practical implementation and real-world strategies.

In today’s evolving financial landscape, community bank leaders must cultivate strong organizational cultures while implementing change adaptation strategies that support a sustainable business model. This session is built to equip senior bankers with tools to address challenges by fostering strategic alignment, breaking down silos, identifying sound growth strategies, and taking action to foster best business practices for growth. Participants will engage in networking and interactive dialogue.

You will choose your track:

Track 1: Culture & Strategic Planning Track 2: Growing Deposits & Loans
  • Discuss organizational culture as a driver of strategy.
  • Identify the impact of organizational culture on employee engagement, customer satisfaction, and overall performance.
  • Explore best practices for integrating culture into strategic planning to drive business success.
  • Evaluate and effectively communicate vision, mission and values.
  • Discuss strategic alignment at the management table.
  • Consider effective management strategies.
  • Discover methods that support learning, innovation, resilience and stakeholder focused value cultures.
  • Understand the importance of fostering cross-departmental communication and collaboration to drive your unified vision.
  • Discover decision making tools.
  • Gain tools for building a leadership pipeline that supports long-term strategic growth and development. 
  • Identify opportunities within existing customer bases and explore new market segments.
  • Safeguard a balance between growth and maintaining sound financial risk management practices.
  • Build stakeholder partnerships and business development strategies to foster growth.
  • Leverage the power of word-of- mouth marketing. 
  • Discuss successful treasury management and workplace banking strategies.
  • Implement a customer and prospect contact management plan.
  • Explore proven coaching and performance management
    strategies that build high performance teams.
  • Discuss incentive plans and other reward and recognition programs that lead to results.
  • Uncover strategies for recruiting and retaining high producing bank talent. 
  • Define your competitive advantage and optimize technology and efficiencies to improve service delivery.


Schedule:
9 am - 12 pm:   Welcome & Introductions / Breakout Sessions with Forum Dialogue and Discussions
12 pm - 1 pm:   Networking Lunch
1 pm - 3 pm:     Forum Dialogue and Discussions Continued 

Who Should Attend: 
This program is designed for senior bankers, including executive-level leaders, senior management, (chief of and department heads) and those leading strategic initiatives within their organizations. It is ideal for professionals looking to lead transformation, foster growth, and enhance organizational culture in the competitive banking sector. Participants may have the following job titles: Chief Executive Officer, President, Chief of Lending, Chief Operations Officer, Director of Human Resources, Regional Sales and Service Manager, Treasury Management Executive, etc.

For More Information:

Independent Community Banks of North Dakota Logo 1136 West Divide Avenue P.O. Box 6128
Bismarck, North Dakota 58501
United States 701.258.7121

Facilitators:

Christie Drexler, Drexler Consulting, LLC

Kristi Greer, Kristi Greer Cosulting, LLC