{"id":63490,"date":"2022-03-21T16:09:34","date_gmt":"2022-03-21T16:09:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=63490"},"modified":"2022-03-25T20:12:30","modified_gmt":"2022-03-25T20:12:30","slug":"rene-jones-one-of-4-black-ceos-in-the-fortune-500-on-his-secret-for-success-you-have-to-tell-your-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=63490","title":{"rendered":"Ren\u00e9 Jones, one of 4 Black CEOs in the Fortune 500, on his \u2018secret\u2019 for success: \u2018You have to tell your story\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ren\u00e9 Jones, one of 4 Black CEOs in the Fortune 500, on his \u2018secret\u2019 for success: \u2018You have to tell your story\u2019<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

CNBC<\/a>
\n2022-02-27<\/p>\n

Jade Scipioni<\/strong><\/a>, Senior Reporter, Make It<\/p>\n

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Ren\u00e9 Jones<\/a>, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of M&T Bank Corp<\/a>. Credit: Mark Dellas<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

This story is part of the Behind the Desk series, where CNBC Make It gets personal with successful business executives to find out everything from how they got to where they are to what makes them get out of bed in the morning to their daily routines.<\/em><\/p>\n

Ren\u00e9 Jones<\/a> says banking executives have a \u201cbad rap.\u201d His reason might surprise you.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think it\u2019s because we\u2019re not really good storytellers,\u201d Jones, 56, tells CNBC Make It<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n

Jones, who has served as the chairman and CEO of Buffalo, New York<\/a>-based regional bank M&T<\/a> since 2017, is currently one of only four Black CEOs in the Fortune 500. He started there as an executive associate in 1992<\/a>, and today oversees its 17,000-plus employees and market valuation of $23 billion.<\/p>\n

Over time, he says, he\u2019s learned to lean into his own personal story as his \u201csecret weapon\u201d \u2014 sharing it with employees has helped him form deeper and more meaningful workplace relationships. Growing up with five siblings in a biracial family, for example \u2014 especially as the lightest-skinned of his siblings \u2014 taught him early on not to form stereotypes about people…<\/p>\n

Read the entire article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Jones, who has served as the chairman and CEO of Buffalo, New York-based regional bank M&T since 2017, is currently one of only four Black CEOs in the Fortune 500. He started there as an executive associate in 1992, and today oversees its 17,000-plus employees and market valuation of $23 billion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,1245,14647,13743,8,20],"tags":[31063,33310,33304,33307,33305,33306],"class_list":["post-63490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-biography","category-economics","category-interviews","category-media-archive","category-usa","tag-cnbc","tag-consumer-news-and-business-channel","tag-jade-scipioni","tag-mt-bank-corporation","tag-rene-f-jones","tag-rene-jones"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63490","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=63490"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63490\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63552,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63490\/revisions\/63552"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}