27.11.2025

11th Leadership MeetUp: Red and blue make purple

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E-mail: events-banking@msg.group

Phone: +49 721 6674 1880

New Work, Process Excellence, Strategy

Price

Free

Location

Online

Type

Workshop

Time

08:30

Duration

1.5 hours

Registration deadline

25.11.2025

Your speakers

Verena Ambros

Department Manager

Ramon Frank

Geschäftsbereichsleitung

Christoph Dürr

Senior Manager Customer & Sales Management

Pavlina Popova

Expertin Digitalisierung und Innovation

At this event, we will focus on the topic of modern sales management. We will also discuss the importance of spatial and cultural changes in order to enable new developments and actively shape change.

You can look forward to these two presentations:

Goal achieved, team lost! … Why leadership needs more than just targets.
Christoph Dürr | Senior Manager | msg for banking ag

Figures, KPIs, deadlines – many managers focus almost exclusively on targets. But those who only pay attention to ‘what’ and ignore ‘how’ and ‘why’ risk damaging motivation, trust and innovation within the team. In this session, we would like to discuss why purely target-based leadership falls short – and what modern leadership needs instead.

How can something new emerge when the space still tells the story of the old?
Pavlina Popova | Independent Consultant & Interim Manager, Digital Banking

Strategy workshop in the old meeting room? Or modern customer consulting in a setting like 20 years ago? No wonder innovation often gets stuck there. Spaces speak – and they either tell a story of new beginnings or stagnation. Many regional banks are investing in change – digital services, new leadership culture, hybrid collaboration. And yet, change does not always happen where it should. Lasting change happens when it’s psychologically sound and can be experienced spatially. This talk shows how customer experience, employee motivation and innovative strength depend on how spaces are designed – both physically and culturally. And how leadership not only creates a framework, but also opens up real spaces – for thinking, walking and shaping together.

Verena Ambros

leitet eine Abteilung im Geschäftsbereich Banking Digital Services der Sparkassen‑Finanzgruppe bei msg for banking ag und gestaltet aktiv die Transformation von Organisationen in Zeiten tiefgreifender technologischer und kultureller Veränderungsprozesse. Als zertifizierte Stärkencoachin und systemische Coachin verbindet sie moderne Leadership‑Kompetenz mit einem klaren Verständnis dafür, wie Menschen, Teams und Strukturen erfolgreich in Zukunftsfähigkeit geführt werden. Ihr Anspruch: Potenziale sichtbar machen, Veränderungsfähigkeit stärken und eine Kultur etablieren, in der Transformation nachhaltig verankert wird.

Ramon Frank

ist Geschäftsbereichsleiter bei msg for banking und Ansprechpartner für alle Kunden der Sparkassenfinanzgruppe. Mit seinem Team steht er für Software Engineering, Sustainable Banking, Process Data Technologies und Application Management Services. In verschiedenen Führungspositionen war er in den letzten Jahren unter anderem im Business Development sowie in Organisations- und Change Projekten zur Entwicklung resilienter Organisationen aktiv.

Christoph Dürr

beherrscht durch seinen bankfachlichen Hintergrund, seiner umfassenden vertrieblichen Erfahrung und seiner Expertise im Vertriebsmanagement die Praxis des Bankgeschäfts. Er berät Banken und Sparkassen bei der Optimierung und digitalen Transformation, im Vertrieb und Vertriebsmanagement, zu Management-, Gesamtbank und Fachthemen. Dabei begleitet er Führungskräfte, Berater und Fachabteilungen beim Wandel zu einem vertrauensvollen und wertschätzenden Teamspirit.

Pavlina Popova

ist Expertin für Digitalisierung, Innovation und agile Transformation mit über neun Jahren Erfahrung im deutschen Banken- und Zahlungsverkehr – insbesondere im Sparkassenumfeld. Sie begleitete zahlreiche Projekte rund um digitale Zahlverfahren, Plattformlösungen und innovative Geschäftsmodelle und war dabei als Strategieberaterin, Projektleiterin und Business-Developerin tätig. Ihr Fokus liegt auf der Verbindung von technologischer Innovation und nutzerzentrierter Umsetzung. Als Moderatorin bringt sie Fach- und Führungskräfte zu Themen wie digitales Banking, Innovation und Zukunft der Finanzbranche in den Dialog.

This event will take place online. This means you can take part from the comfort of your computer. We use the video conferencing tool MS Teams for our online events. You can find more information on the technology in our FAQs.

The Leadership MeetUps are aimed exclusively at managers of all hierarchies and from all specialist areas of savings banks and cooperative banks as well as data centers (Atruvia/FI), preferably “ambassadors” from both financial groups.

Good to know

I still have questions. Who can I contact?

If you have any questions about our event programme, please do not hesitate to contact us. Simply give us a call or send us an e-mail. We look forward to exchanging ideas with you. Isabel Menrath events-banking@msg.group +49 (0) 172 947 47 33

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How do registration and login work?

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Is there a booking confirmation?

Yes, once you have made a binding registration for the event, you will receive a booking confirmation. In the run-up to the event, you will receive a further e-mail with important information for your event, such as the venue and programme (face-to-face event) or access data (online event).

What technology is used for online events?

Our online events usually take place with Microsoft Teams. You will receive an access link with a telephone dial-in option; it is not necessary to install the Microsoft Teams application.We would be pleased if you switch on your camera. Please check the following Microsoft Teams system requirements in good time before the start of the event and observe the following recommendations: Use a desktop PC or a notebook/laptop to participate in your online event.

Operating system Windows 7 or a more recent version Mac OS X version 10.8 or higher
Browser Google Chrome (preferred) Also suitable: Microsoft Internet Explorer 11 or higher, Microsoft Edge, Apple Safari
Internet access Ideally, access via DSL/cable with at least 256Kbit/s. Bandwidth.

Please use a headset with an integrated microphone. If participating on a notebook/laptop, we recommend using the integrated camera; if participating on a desktop PC, an external webcam is recommended. Would you like to be absolutely sure and test MS Teams in advance? No problem, simply contact events-banking@msg.group.

Cancellation of events

We reserve the right to cancel the event due to insufficient demand or number of participants. Cancellations at short notice are also possible for other important reasons for which we are not responsible, such as sudden illness of the speaker or force majeure. Participation fees already paid by you will of course be refunded. You will be informed immediately in the event of cancellation. Further liability and compensation claims arising from the cancellation or change to the event that do not relate to injury to life, limb or health are excluded, unless there is intent or gross negligence on our part. Please note that this also applies to hotel rooms and flight or train tickets booked by you.

What cancellation conditions apply?

The detailed cancellation conditions can be found in § 3 Cancellation of our event conditions.

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