Keynotes and working sessions for community banks, lenders, credit union leagues, boards, universities, and executive teams deciding inside a crisis era. Every talk is built around one real decision the audience is already facing.
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Each one is adapted to the audience and the decisions in front of them. Program directors can mix a keynote with a working session inside the same day.
The five modes of leadership the historical record validates, and why a code built before the pressure arrives is the only one that holds. Built around the decisions in front of the room, not a survey of the literature.
Best fitAssociation annual meetings and executive conferences
A working session on how each leader in the room defaults under pressure, and the shadow that default produces when the load runs long. Participants leave able to name their own mode and the one their team is missing.
Best fitExecutive teams, boards, and leadership retreats
Some decisions arrive with no policy that resolves them, no precedent that fits, and no consensus available. This talk is about what a leader falls back on in that gap, and how to build that fallback in advance.
Best fitCommunity banks, lenders, credit unions, and boards
Institutions outlive the people who run them only when judgment is deliberately built into successors. The practice for transmitting a standard rather than a set of rules, drawn from the leaders who managed it.
Best fitUniversity executive education and long-horizon institutions
Fees vary with travel, audience size, and how much of the program the engagement covers. These are the starting points.
A signature talk, tailored to the audience and the calls in front of them.
The keynote plus a facilitated working session applying the framework to one live decision.
Multiple sessions across a program or conference track, with breakout facilitation.
A recurring program across a chapter network, a university program calendar, or a leadership pipeline.
Bulk copies of Honor Under Pressure included with all engagements.
Reduced rates for nonprofit and association member programs.
“Chris Myers understands both Main Street finance and the generational forces reshaping our communities.”
Michael Van Norstrand
Executive Director, Independent Community Bankers of Colorado
Send the date, the audience, and what the room is deciding this year. We reply within two business days with availability and a fit recommendation.
Chris Myers · CEO, B:Side Capital & B:Side Fund · Founder & Chairman, Main & Machine · Faculty, ASU W. P. Carey
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Bringing the practice to a leadership team instead of a stage? See team workshops and advisory.
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Date, audience, and what the room is working on.
Most association and university programs book six to twelve months out. Send the date early and the rest can be scoped later.