Rockwall Area Chamber of Commerce Events

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Speaker: Kevin Pate - Lakeside National Bank

Don’t miss our next edition of Bright Ideas on Wednesday, August 28^th from 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm in the Chamber Innovation Room. This month, we are teaming up with The Young Professionals of Rockwall to bring you “Leveraging Relationships To Stand Out Without Sticking Out.”

Every business relies on the relationships built between employees and their customer base. In this hour-long professional development opportunity, Mr. Kevin Pate, Executive Vice President at Lakeside National Bank will share his experiences, tips, tricks and cautions on how to build those relationships to positively stand out amongst the crowd.

Kevin currently serves as the Executive Vice President at Lakeside National Bank in Rockwall, TX. He is a loan officer, the compliance officer, and daily gives oversight to many functions of the bank. From 2007 to 2016 Mr. Pate was the Executive Director of Marketplace at Global Advance. Monthly he would led business trips to international locations in order work with small and medium sized businesses through on site business visits and a corresponding two-day business conferences 200-800 attendees. This involved 70+ international trips, seminars with over 25,000 total in attendance in 42 nations and about 185 separate events. He still speaks internationally and has already key noted events in India and Peru this year and has already booked Colombia for 2020..  Kevin also served for seven as the CFO of an organization with over one million in revenues. He began his career and worked thirteen years in a Certified Public Accounting firm in the areas of tax, auditing, bookkeeping and more. Kevin and his wife Diana graduated from Baylor University in Waco, TX, He was the Student Body President of Baylor University 1983-84. Kevin and Diana have three grown children.

Kevin has core topic list of about thirty business topics with PowerPoint and some with study questions and group discussion. Topics/areas include Customer Service, Customer Experience, Sales, Marketing, Surviving A Recession, Turning Around A Business, Leading a Business in Crises, Situational Leadership, Servant Leadership, Credit and Debt, Entrepreneurship, Starting a Business, Business Innovation, Strategic Planning, Business Plans, Business Model Canvas Accounting, Budgeting, Human Resources, Management, and more.

This event is free to attend for YPR members and Chamber Partners, but space is limited. Visit RockwallChamber.org/Events to reserve your space before it’s too late! (non Partners contact Anderson@RockwallChamber.org for registration details.)”