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Zions Bancorp. is taking a different approach to its diversity efforts by moving ownership for initiatives out to its field offices.

Since joining U.S. Bancorp in 2007, Leslie Godridge has been largely responsible for building its corporate bank from a regional operation to a nationwide powerhouse.

Myers has thrived as head of global capital equity markets by heeding the leadership advice of her mentor, the late Jimmy Lee: Focus on the people she'd take with her if she ever left J.P. Morgan to start her own firm.

Early in her career, Strybel took a leap of faith when she followed her mentor's guidance and took a role outside her wheelhouse. It paid off, and it's a lesson she shares with younger bankers as part of her mission to pay it forward.

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"You can get a lot done if you don't care who gets the credit," Stevens is fond of saying. Judging by the pace of innovation at the $169 billion-asset Fifth Third, that team-first message is clearly resonating.

Marla Willner has returned to TD Bank to be its head of corporate and specialty banking, and she has a plan for building the unit she leads into a national powerhouse.

Ellen Patterson, the general counsel at TD Bank Group, has spearheaded a program across the Toronto company's footprint that aims to reinforce the idea that men need to be a big part of any organization's diversity and inclusion efforts.

Since taking over as leader of Citi FinTech in 2016, Yolande Piazza has worked to boost the number of women who are promoted into leadership roles for her team.

Diane Morais, the head of consumer and commercial banking for Ally Bank, is forthright about what went wrong after her institutions started offering mortgages in 2017 — and how the institution went about fixing the situation.

Jane Fraser, Citigroup's CEO of Latin America, has helped the bank cut a deal with Mexico's new president that will result in a loss of swipe fees, but may help it gain customers long-term.

From her perch atop a global business that processes $455 trillion in payments each year, Diane Reyes sees the push to bring real-time processing to the U.S. through an international lens.

Under Monaco's leadership, Citi has ranked as the top investment bank to governments and governmental organizations in four out of the past five years.

As head of strategic planning, Danella works with department heads to identify strategic priorities across all business lines and communicating those priorities, and management's vision for the company, to investors and employees.

Karen Larrimer, who oversees retail banking for PNC Financial, is encouraging women who frequently get caught up in trying to do it all to think harder about prioritizing.

Kate Quinn, the vice chairman and chief administrative officer of U.S. Bancorp., said that banks have long been focused on the experience of customers, but could benefit from greater emphasis on employees as well.

Among the highest-ranking women at Discover, Offereins is leading the push to improve gender equity at firms throughout the Chicago region.

Wolverton has been accumulating responsibility and influence at Synovus in recent years and is the highest ranking woman at the company.

Michaela Ludbrook joined Deutsche Bank in 2014 and has risen to lead both its global securities services business and its global transaction bank in the Americas.

When HSBC announced 16 appointments amid changes to top management in April, Bouazza, who previously co-led the bank's Latin American business, was the lone woman selected.