Rethinking Your Leadership Style
Questioning Your Line of Historical Thought for Future Success
Matthew Green
Group Head - Equipment Finance
CIBC
Talk Overview
Leadership is about leveraging your core competencies, understanding your inadequacies, having a vision for the future and creating a one-of-a kind sales culture. In this Talk, we will unpack the leadership traits that can guide you toward a leadership role within your workplace.
Why Select this Talk?
This Talk will provide personal insights into how to recognize your core competencies and establish baseline leadership fundamentals.
How You Learn
My Talk will be a reciprocal conversation, with personal examples weaved in to provide perspective and real world illustrations.
Takeaways
People are empowered in an environment where they are given the opportunity to build individual strengths and learn from their successes and failures. The best leaders empower their employees by asking questions, not giving answers.
Matthew Green
Matthew Green is the Group Head of Equipment Finance
at CIBC, where he is responsible for establishing the strategic vision and corporate partnership across all lines of business. Matthew previously managed a team of originators in the Midwest and Northeast as well as the Capital Markets team. Prior to his role in Equipment Finance, Matthew was the Group Head of Syndications at JP Morgan and co-founder of the Middle Market focused Syndicated Finance Group within J.P. Morgan’s Commercial Bank. He was responsible for originating, structuring, pricing, and syndicating bank and institutional loans for middle market clients. Prior to joining J.P. Morgan in 2011, Matthew held numerous capital markets and distressed asset positions within BMO Capital Markets (Bank of Montreal). Most notably, Matthew was part of BMO Capital Markel's Distressed Asset Group where his team was responsible for analyzing the risk associated with the firm's troubled credit portfolio during the Great Recession. Matthew has over 18 years of experience in leasing, lending, portfolio management and debt capital markets.
Matthew holds a B.S. from DePaul University, where he majored in Finance and Marketing. He resides in Wheaton, Illinois with his wife Sarah and five children.