The Most Powerful Women in Banking

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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