Kevin Bender

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ABA Banking Journal Podcast · Tactics for meaningful strategic planning · 29 Jul 2026 podcast

You need your board aligned with management into what we're trying to accomplish.

So I think the big aspects that were really helpful was the board was a big piece of this process.

We even had a board member, part of the, call it the data gathering team,

So they can witness and be part of everything going on.

And they were that intermediary between the full board during all of our work up to this.

So board involvement, really big.

Staff involvement, really big.

And then it's a commitment.

It's a commitment to following through on this.

And on the one hand, it's an easy commitment.

If you really want your, if you took this seriously and you want your bank to succeed, it's not pulling heavy weight.

to be monitoring and tracking and meeting regularly to talk about where are we on that project.

And maybe a piece of that project isn't going to start for a year and a half, but it's still on the radar.

A year and a half goes by if you're not regularly talking about the plan and looking at kind of your general timelines and seeing them come about or being pushed out or should they moved up.

If you're not doing that, eventually it is one of those deals where you've made a plan, you put it on the shelf,

We didn't look at it again.

And then when you did look at it, you realize, oh, there's all those things we didn't do, but they would have been good ideas.

So you've got to stay on top of it, but it can be fun when everybody's involved.

You put the right energy behind it.

Positivity.

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