Leslie Paris

Leslie Paris

Leslie Paris

Director of Community and Employee Engagement

Expertise

  • Community Engagement
  • Human Resources

Leslie Paris is responsible for BOK Financial’s community engagement strategy in eight states, including some of the nation’s fastest-growing metropolitan areas such as Dallas, Houston, Denver, Albuquerque and Kansas City. She serves as President of the BOKF Foundation, annually supporting over 600 nonprofit organizations serving the needs of the communities in the bank’s footprint. Additionally, she directs the company’s in-kind contributions and volunteering, including nonprofit board service, committee involvement and other volunteer service activities by employees. She joined BOK Financial in 1983.

Paris has a bachelor’s degree in business administration from Oklahoma State University.

Outside of the office, she is on the board of the Oklahoma Foundation for Excellence (in Education), Catholic Charities of Eastern Oklahoma, OSU Spears School of Business Eastin Center Advisory Board, OSU Foundation Board of Governors and is the current chair of the Women for OSU Council. She enjoys volunteering, reading and cattle ranching in her spare time.

BOK Financial Corporation is a more than $50 billion regional financial services company headquartered in Tulsa, Oklahoma with more than $105 billion in assets under management and administration. The company's stock is publicly traded on NASDAQ under the Global Select market listings (BOKF). BOK Financial Corporation's holdings include BOKF, NA; BOK Financial Securities, Inc., and BOK Financial Private Wealth, Inc. BOKF, NA's holdings include TransFund and Cavanal Hill Investment Management, Inc. BOKF, NA operates banking divisions across eight states as: Bank of Albuquerque; Bank of Oklahoma; Bank of Texas and BOK Financial (in Arizona, Arkansas, Colorado, Kansas and Missouri); as well as having limited purpose offices Nebraska, Wisconsin, Connecticut and Tennessee. The entities held by BOK Financial Corporation are periodically referred to collectively as BOK Financial Corporation Group. Through its subsidiaries, BOK Financial Corporation provides commercial and consumer banking, brokerage trading, investment, trust services, mortgage origination and servicing, and an electronic funds transfer network. For more information, visit www.bokf.com.

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