Jp Nicols

JP spends most of his time working directly with bank leadership teams and boards to help them build and leverage their internal innovation capacity to "unbreak the bank", unleash growth potential, and quickly forge ideas into results through our FinTech Forge programs.

He has been internationally recognized as a leading voice for innovation, strategy and leadership, and his work has been featured in some of the industry’s top publications and conferences across the country and around the world.

​JP is a trusted advisor to boards and leadership teams, a popular writer and speaker, and is often quoted in the media. He is the creator and a top-rated instructor for a groundbreaking program on fintech and innovation at leading graduate schools of banking. ​He is also a host of Breaking Banks, the number #1 global fintech radio show and podcast on Provoke.FM.

He held a number of leadership roles at U.S. Bank during a 20-year period of dramatic growth from $0.75B to $60B in market capitalization, most recently serving as Chief Private Banking Officer. He held management roles at Key Bank and PNC prior to that.

​JP holds a B.A. from the University of Akron, and an M.B.A. from Cleveland State University, where he conducted his research project at Buckinghamshire College in England. He completed the Leadership Excellence bank executive program at the University of Minnesota Carlson School of Business and is also a graduate of the Cannon Financial Institute and the College for Financial Planning.