PAYING IT FORWARD

AMY DINKAR-PATEL leads the Commercial Distribution channels for TD Bank, driving growth and cultural innovation in Specialty Lending, Treasury Management, and Product and Payments covering Large Corporate to Small Business Banking clients. As Executive Vice President, she steers the bank’s organizational vision by increasing stakeholder engagement, deepening brand awareness, and strengthening relationships with clients. One of Patel’s passions is to elevate and advance women’s leadership and access to credit, networks, and collaboration. She serves on the IWF Board of Directors, The Chicago Club Membership Committee, and the Women’s Athletic Club Board of Directors. Patel is also a member of the Economic Club of Chicago.

Most rewarding part of what you do? The honor to lead a team of more than 500 colleagues and the ability to help one million commercial bank clients achieve their greatest success with the tailored advice and tools my team builds for this segment. I also continue to create rewarding and successful work environments for my team, which enable them to contribute $1 billion in revenue for the bank.

How should women support other women? Bring an extra chair with you for her to sit on at the table, and speak about her in rooms as if you are talking about yourself. What you do for her she will give back tenfold as she will have learned how to pay it forward.

How do you inspire others? I ask my teammates to write five of their best qualities as leaders and hold them accountable to it. I also always remind everyone that the NorthStar has many paths. Just stay on any one of those paths and success will have no choice but to prevail.

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