Mark Kanaly
Partner and Co-Chair of Corporate Area at Alston & Bird LLP, specializing in banking M&A and financial services law; nationally recognized speaker on corporate strategy and banking industry topics.
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Jun 29, 2026
Caleb StevensHOST
If I were to give you just sort of a blank slate, free menu to say, what's the purpose of strategic planning and why should banks or really any company for that matter, why should they have one?
Mark KanalyGUEST
My wife and I go to church on Sunday morning and when we get back from church, we go for a walk.
Mark KanalyGUEST
And I would say at least once a quarter, I make the comment to her about how blessed I've been to be in a space with so many good people in it.
Mark KanalyGUEST
And so I kind of started that, Caleb, because that really is such a centerpiece to everything we're talking about, which is human capital is at the center of all this.
Mark KanalyGUEST
People you like working with, people you trust, people who lead by example and not just by spoken word.
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Caleb StevensHOST
What does the pre-work look like? uh sort of the the plan uh or the meeting before the meeting so to speak