Clear Strategic Priorities
Boards and executive teams gain clarity on what truly matters—surfacing tradeoffs, aligning on strategic direction, and establishing governance-ready decision support that moves beyond high-level plans into actionable priorities.
Leadership Alignment & Role Clarity
Leadership teams develop shared understanding of roles, responsibilities, and decision authority—reducing friction, strengthening accountability, and improving coordination across the organization.
Disciplined Execution
Institutions build execution discipline grounded in real organizational capacity—ensuring strategic initiatives are supported by the right structure, leadership bandwidth, and accountability mechanisms.
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Partnering with community banks nationwide since 1998
Overview
At PCI Performance Management, we provide strategic advisory and leadership readiness support for community banks navigating complexity, change, and growth. Loren Prairie works with boards and executive teams to clarify strategic direction, strengthen leadership alignment, and ensure organizations are equipped to execute priorities effectively.  Rather than producing static strategic plans, Loren’s work emphasizes decision-ready frameworks, board-level clarity, and leadership accountability—surfacing the tradeoffs, risks, and capacity constraints that often derail otherwise sound strategies.
Services
• Strategic Planning • Board of Directors Training • Succession Planning • Executive Coaching • Operations Workflow Review • Staff Modeling • Organizational Review
How We Help
PCI provides advisory support designed to strengthen board-level decision-making and executive accountability—helping your institution clarify priorities, validate assumptions, and align leadership capacity with institutional goals in an increasingly complex operating environment.
Our Advisory Process
Every community bank operates within a unique leadership culture, market environment, and governance structure. PCI’s advisory process is designed to provide clear, independent insight into how strategy, leadership capacity, and organizational alignment function in practice — not just in planning sessions or board materials.  1) Leadership Alignment & Strategic Context We meet with board members and executive leadership to understand strategic priorities, governance dynamics, market environment, and organizational challenges—clarifying decision context, alignment, and execution constraints.  2) Organizational & Leadership Readiness Assessments We assess leadership capacity, decision authority, management structure, and alignment to strategic objectives—identifying execution risk, role ambiguity, and capacity gaps.  3) Strategic Clarity & Prioritization We facilitate structured discussions to surface tradeoffs, risk considerations, and competing priorities—translating high-level strategy into clear, actionable direction grounded in real-world capacity.  4) Findings, Validation & Execution Support We deliver practical recommendations to support governance and executive decision-making, strengthen accountability, and reinforce execution discipline—supporting sustainable progress rather than short-term initiatives.
About Loren Prairie
With decades of experience advising community banks, Loren Prairie serves as President of PCI Performance Management and a trusted advisor to boards and executive teams nationwide.  Loren is known for his ability to: • Ask the right questions at the board level • Translate complexity into actionable priorities • Balance strategic ambition with organizational capacity
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To discuss an engagement or request additional information, schedule a conversation with Loren Prairie. Conversations are exploratory and focused on fit, scope, and timing.
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