Mike Wisler of M&T Bank

As the Chief Information Officer for M&T Bank, Mike Wisler has been to every corner of the Western world, but found answers a lot of the questions that life had raised along the way in the unlikeliest of places. 

Highlights of the conversation include:
- Bringing Middle Ohio to Buffalo
- A startup that became an international enterprise
- Modernizing statistical analysis
- The problematic lifestyle of a traveling manager
- Listening to the voice inside your head
- Finding Buffalo; finding reason
- The significance and impact of community action, and how Buffalo excels at it
- The importance of technology and innovation for a community
- Adopting a reverence for contemporary business approaches
- Searching for problems to solve
- Signaling to the country - and the world - that Buffalo is a leader in technology and innovation
- Collaborative Clustering
- Belief, Behavior, Technique
- Garnering trust within a workplace
- Connecting the Waterfront with the Medical Campus
- Recognizing when lightning will strike
- Kickstarting 43 North and where it stands a decade later
- Maniacal focus
- The path of the ultra-successful
- "Leadership is an endurance sport."