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A Conversation With Kelly King
Kelly King always had a passion for leadership. In the 1980s, he wrote a thesis that served as the foundation for the leadership model at Truist Financial Corp., the Charlotte, North Carolina-based regional bank where he retired as executive chairman in 2022 and CEO in 2021. King, 76, was chairman and CEO of BB&T Corp. before it merged with SunTrust Banks to form Truist in 2019. He learned the value of having a sense of purpose through the 2007-08 financial crisis and other challenges. More recently, he’s been a senior adviser at KSK Investors, which has a small-cap bank fund…
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John Engen
Contributing Writer
John Engen is a contributing writer for Bank Director. He has more than 30 years of experience as a business journalist, writing for a variety of newspapers and magazines, and was a foreign correspondent for the Associated Press. He graduated with a degree in economics and international relations from the University of Minnesota and did his post-graduate work in Asian studies at the University of Hawai’i.