LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT SCHOOL

Unleash your leadership potential! This dynamic two-day Leadership Development School equips Assistant Branch Managers, Branch Managers, and Department Managers with the skills to become truly inspiring leaders. Through interactive sessions and personalized action plans, you’ll gain the tools to adjust your leadership style, build exceptional teams, and coach your employees to excel.

Date: Thursday, October 24, 2024 and Friday, October 25, 2024
Time:  8:30AM- 3:30PM EST
Location: Double Tree by Hilton Bristol, 42 Century Drive, Bristol, Connecticut, 06010

Price: $995

PRE-WORK: DISC Management Assessment

Session 1:  “You as the Leader”

Learning Objectives:  Participants will learn about their preferences for leader behavior with a focus on adjusting their styles to others.  The Everything DISC: Management Profile will be used to help participants learn strategies to better communicate and develop others.  Participants will also gain strategies to enhance their emotional intelligence and will leave with an action plan for continuous development.

Topics:  Leveraging Your Leadership Style, Influential Communication, and Practical Emotional Intelligence

Session 2:  “Leading Others”

Learning Objectives:  Participants will continue to build on their leadership style to become most effective in leading others.  They will explore how fostering team collaboration and enhancing work relationships with colleagues can produce exceptional results. Additionally, participants will learn how to coach employees to their highest level of potential.

Topics:  Understanding Your Team Members, Motivation, Conflict Resolution, and Building/Sustaining a Dynamic Team, Coaching and Delegation for developing others.

Cost Includes: DISC Management Profile Assessment, Participant Workbook, Two full day training sessions; including breakfast and lunch.

LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT SCHOOL Instructor

Cynthia Rowan is a seasoned professional with an extensive background in banking; having successfully served in a variety of positions within the retail, lending, and credit areas as well as an officer in the areas of human resources, training, and employee development.  Since 1992, Rowan has served as president of her own consulting firm, Performance Management Solutions. During her consulting career, she has helped a variety of financial service institutions improve their profitability by designing and implementing training initiatives in the areas of leadership, management, talent development, performance management, and coaching culture development.


Cindy designed and developed the Emerging Leaders Program offered through NJBankers and served as its Academic Program Director from 2016-2020. In addition to her consulting and training practice, Dr. Rowan serves as an adjunct professor; instructing graduate-level courses in Human Resource Training & Development, Organizational Behavior, and Organizational Development.  An active member of the American Society for Training & Development (now ATD), Cindy has made numerous presentations at local, national, and international conferences on such topics as leadership development, mentoring talent development, and training. 

Cindy is a two time international, best-selling author and she has received numerous honors for her work. She is a certified instructor for some of the nation’s leading firms dedicated to training, assessment, and professional development.  She holds a professional certification in Career Planning & Development from the University of Michigan’s Graduate School of Business Administration and a doctoral degree from Seton Hall University’s College of Education and Human Services in Leadership, Administration, and Policy. 

Cindy serves as the Academic Program Director of Financial Leaders Institute (FLI) and shares her extensive expertise in the areas of personal leadership, organizational and talent development, and workplace culture.

Cindy Rowan

Cynthia Rowan