West Community Staffer Earns Next Top Credit Union Exec Nomination
Missouri Credit Union Association | By Nora Holloway
A Missouri nominee will participate in the CUES Next Top Credit Union Executive competition. Danielle Buscher, the Learning and Development Manager at West Community Credit Union and its division Tigers Credit Union, will compete against 19 other credit union nominees from the US and Canada to earn the title of “Next Top Credit Union Executive.”
The competition seeks to identify up-and-coming credit union professionals under the age of 35, who have not yet reached the level of CEO. Participants are nominated and required to submit a project they believe will advance their credit union or the credit union movement in general.
Buscher’s project focuses on helping employees achieve the next step in their career through West Community Credit Union’s all-inclusive development program, NeXt! 2.0. You can learn more about NeXt! 2.0 with Danielle’s video submission and cast your vote here.
Voting is open until Thursday, July 30. The 10 applicants with the most online votes will have the opportunity to continue on in the competition. Additionally, a judging committee will add five additional applicants to form the Top 15.
Members of the Top 15 will create another blog post about their project. And each of the Top 15 will also receive a remote coaching session with DDJ Myers, a CUES Supplier member and strategic partner.
A judging panel will evaluate and score the Top 15 based on their original application videos, their blog posts and the value their projects bring to their credit unions and to the credit union industry as a whole. These results will be tabulated and the five highest-ranking applicants will be named finalists.
The five finalists will win additional coaching sessions and registration, accommodation and airfare to CUES' CEO/Executive Team Network™ in Scottsdale, Ariz., November 8-11, 2015, a prize package valued at $6,000.
While in Scottsdale, the finalists will face off for the grand prize, a CUES educational package valued at $20,000, and the honor of being named 2015 CUES Next Top Credit Union Executive.