Everyone has the potential and capacity to be leaders in all their roles in life: at home, in the community, and at work. A leader with a centered presence thinks and acts effectively in a variety of circumstances and challenges.
Read MoreAn exciting update on a milestone that the Savings Accelerator program achieved recently! Thank you all for the support and guidance throughout this journey and NTCUE campaign.
Read MoreThe judges’ results are in!
Read MoreCredit Unions partnering with Universities and colleges seems to be a growing strategy and a direction that has been proven worthy. The question is, do we truly understand the value that could be triggered from the efforts to create a partnership as immense as this? I am not sure we do.
Read MoreWhat’s next in my Next Top Credit Union Exec project? Who are we partnering with? What research will we do?
Read MoreThis journey has been a fantastic opportunity to share ideas with some of the nation’s brightest minds. Over the past month I’ve been able to connect with others in open dialogue regarding my program, Spurring Growth through Community Investments. The feedback has been rich in functionality, purpose, and opportunity.
Read MoreI watched as the teen dug intently in the soil of The Portland Kitchen’s “Pizza Garden” project, his hands near black with earth. Without looking at me, he held up a perfectly ripened, Calabash tomato and quietly stated that it was for me.
Read MoreAs a credit union we see the world through a different set of eyes. Although considered to many as a bank, regarding our similarities in financial services, I’ve learned that the culture amongst many topics set us apart.
Read MoreOver the past several months I have had the privilege to work with several people who are in the millennial generation who are already CEOs, becoming CEOS, or aspiring to be CEOS. There is a distinctive energetic pulse with the millennial when we are discussing how it is being a CEO, developing Board–CEO relationships, leading a team that is older in age, and balancing life as a new CEO with a young family and community commitment.
Read MoreThe most important service of the credit union is the education of its members in the management and control of their own money. – Roy F. Bergengren, credit union pioneer.
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