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We're sought-after speakers and trainersMartha Bartlett Piland keynote speaking at VET Leader Conference

BANKTASTIC presents at many events, for companies and professional organizations. We educate, emcee and facilitate on a wide range of topics, and even develop custom webinars. We motivate, inform and inspire.

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Choose from our library of most-requested presentations and workshops or engage us to develop a custom program for you.

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Martha Bartlett Piland, CFMP

Alexandra Reilly, CFMP

We're sought-after speakers and trainersMartha Bartlett Piland keynote speaking at VET Leader Conference

BANKTASTIC presents at many events, for companies and professional organizations. We educate, emcee and facilitate on a wide range of topics, and even develop custom webinars. We motivate, inform and inspire.

Need a speaker?

Choose from our library of most-requested presentations and workshops or engage us to develop a custom program for you.

Speaker Information

Click to download speaker bios and publicity photos.

Martha Bartlett Piland, CFMP

Alexandra Reilly, CFMP

Our Library of Presentation Topics

  • Serving up some Purpose: helping everyone in the organization become brand fanatics
  • Building a powerful bank brand presence from the inside out
  • You're more than clean restrooms: differentiating your brand from everyone else
  • Social Smarts: Developing a strategic approach for social media
  • Marketing Metrics: how to plan and measure for powerful outcomes
  • Better business development starts with heartburn
  • Brand audit HOW-TOs
  • Good news/bad news—media interview how-tos
  • Crisis Communications: prepare, practice and respond when trouble strikes
  • Networking: 101 and beyond
  • Blending advisory boards in a merger
  • Blending cultures in a merger: lessons from the Brady Bunch
  • Stop calling on the Usual Suspects: building a better advisory board
  • You are the CEO of your own life:  manage yourself as a sucessful personal brand
  • 20/20 Foresight: communications planning for your merger

Workshops

  • Culturing Creative: how to build better problem solving skills—even if you're not "creative"
  • Corporate team-building through creativity
  • It's a Brand You World: personal branding workshop;
  • Refresh-renew-reenergize retreats for departments and boards
  • Media training with hands-on exercises and role-playing 
  • Transformotion™ in a Box: group innovation workshop

Brand Symposia

We help clients illustrate and communicate their brand company-wide through kickoff meetings and supporting tactics. Symposia can be hourlong, or half day and full day events. 

These symposia can be for clients with an existing brand, or emerging brand. Let's talk about your needs.

Keynote Presentations

We develop customized keynotes for annual meetings, awards ceremonies and other events. Special areas of expertise are entrepreneurship, creativity, innovation and motivational subjects.

Recent engagements

May 3: Kansas Community College Leadership Institute (KCCLI)

Banktastic presented a workshop on personal branding titled It's a Brand You World.

April 13: Michigan Bankers Association

Banktastic presented a session titled Good News/Bad News: Crisis Communications at the Michigan Bankers Association BEST Educations Summit and Trade Show in Traverse City, MI.

April 14: Michigan Bankers Association

Banktastic presented a session on marketing metrics at the Michigan Bankers Association BEST Educations Summit and Trade Show in Traverse City, MI. 

March 30: FHLBank Topeka

Women's Business Partner Lunch: Etiquette may change, but it never goes out of style.

February 10: Pennsylvania Association of Community Bankers

You're more than clean restrooms. Elevate and differentiate your bank brand.

September 13, 2022: ABA Marketing Conference

Banktastic presented Millennial Branch Managers as Business Developers at the ABA Marketing Conference in Denver, CO.

“Martha’s presentation was thorough, informative and presented in a very creative way. She actively engaged the audience and made them a part of the presentation. She was confident with a good dose of warmth and humor.”

—Nancy Goodall, JD, Senior VP and Trust Officer (retired), CoreFirst Bank

“I really enjoyed your take on millennials and how DEI will assist banks in growth and acknowledgement.”

—Thomas Claiborne, Assistant Vice President, Regional Manager, Chesapeake Bank

“Martha Piland presented a high-energy sales seminar to a group of high performing U.S. Bank Commercial Relationship Managers. I would highly recommend Martha and her firm.”

—Wendy A. Wells, Commercial Division Manager, U. S. Bank

“Banktastic is fantastic when it comes to presentations and meetings facilitation. They are dynamic, creative and—most importantly—strategic marketers.”

—Ernie Beaudet, retired President/CEO, Heritage Bank

“This was a great reminder that we need to continue to think outside the box to market...What once was effective is no longer effective especially in branch marketing when we do not have anyone coming in the lobbies.”

—Stephanie Shillingburg, Executive VP & Chief Banking Officer, F&M Bank

“I look forward to watching the recording again to see the visual example you gave and then working with the HR department to communicate our brand internally. Great presentation! Thank you!”

—Eboni Lee, AVP/Marketing Officer, Benchmark Community Bank

“The session was…enlightening, informative, eye opening. [Martha] incites creative, innovative and strategic thinking.”

—Shawna L. Herron, Vice President, Branch Operations Manager, Old Point National Bank

“I enjoyed your presentations at the BEST conference. I loved your enthusiasm about ROI as it is one of my weaknesses. Hearing you get excited about it made me want to come back to the office and jump on the ROI bandwagon!”

“Thank you so much for presenting the two very important topics during the MBA Conference! I think the information you shared was very valuable and was presented well.”