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CUES to Provide Complimentary Memberships to Participants of AACUC’s Mentorship Program
MADISON, Wis.—CUES® is pleased to continue its support of the African-American Credit Union Coalition (AACUC) by offering complimentary one-year individual CUES memberships to mentees in the AACUC Mentorship Program.
“CUES is the undisputed leader in providing talent development for credit union professionals, so it’s a natural fit for us to support the AACUC Mentorship Program in this way. As a part of our commitment to fight against racial injustice, we’re proud to partner with the AACUC to help prepare the next generation of leaders,” said John Pembroke, CUES’ President/CEO.
The AACUC Mentorship program offers professional guidance and support to AACUC Members and one-on-one career support for those AACUC members accepted into the program.
“We are all about leadership, mentorship, and internship, and advancing diversity and career development,” said Renée Sattiewhite, President & CEO of the African-American Credit Union Coalition. “It is important for our senior and mid-level professionals across the credit union movement to lead the way, in order to make this type of program truly beneficial.”
Some of the benefits offered as part of individual CUES Memberships include:
- CUES Learning Portal, which offers easy access to curated content and pre-set learning pathways to help members expand their skill set.
- CUESNet™, the online networking community where CUES members can connect and share with each other, join communities, access a documents library, discover membership tips, and more.
- Guide to Effective Mentorship downloadable whitepaper that goes deep into the different types of mentoring relationships, offers best practices for both mentors and mentees, and includes valuable worksheets and documents for managing a productive mentorship.
- CUES Webinar Series, live and on-demand educational webinars, offering timely topic presentations led by industry experts.
The AACUC is currently seeking 50 Mentors and 50 Mentees for their 2021 program. Interested individuals can learn more here, or register for one of two informational sessions:
Nov 17, 2020 3:00 p.m. Eastern Time (US and Canada)
Nov 18, 2020 12:00 p.m. Eastern Time (US and Canada)
Learn more about the AACUC at aacuc.org. Learn more about CUES at cues.org.
ABOUT AACUC: Founded in 1999, AACUC has grown and is ever changing to meet the needs of the dynamic credit union community which it serves. It has become an all-encompassing organization for individuals (professional and volunteers) in Credit Unions, Insurance, Regulators, Consultants and other entities in the credit union industry.
Affiliation with AACUC offers a unique opportunity to influence and shape the credit union movement and its governmental affairs. AACUC promotes personal and professional growth of its members as well as collectively articulating concerns and advocating resources to improve economic development of surrounding communities that are often under-served by majority financial institutions.
CUES is the leading Talent Development solutions provider for credit unions in North America. We educate, develop and support credit union CEOs, executives, directors, and emerging leaders through partnerships with premier business schools, live and online events, digital learning, networking, and premium content. With over 28,000 members and growing, we measure success one leader at a time.
Connect with CUES at CUES.org and on LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. For daily insights on issues impacting credit unions visit CUmanagement.com.
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CUES® New Digital Learning Page Offers Industry Professionals Easy Access to Online Education
MADISON, Wis.— Industry talent development leader CUES recently launched a webpage dedicated to its digital learning opportunities, www.cues.org/digital-learning.
“With our focus on digital learning, CUES is continuing a tradition of offering the comprehensive training credit union leaders and directors need, when they need it, and how they need it,” said John Pembroke, CUES President and CEO. “Our members and other credit union professionals can now seamlessly locate the online training that best suits their needs, schedule and budget.”
CUES offers a wide scope of online development opportunities for credit union staff and board members at all levels, ranging from hour-long webinars, to mid-range programs, to deep dive courses offered through our business school partners.
Users can easily search by topics, including strategy, leadership, governance, growth, and more. The CUES Digital Learning page also features easy links to:
- Harvard ManageMentor, a benefit of Unlimited and Unlimited+ membership, offers 41 courses from Harvard Business Publishing, the author of Harvard Business Review.
- eCornell Certificate Programs, developed just for credit unions and available only through CUES, are university-level courses covering diversity, marketing, HR, and executive management.
- CUES Learning Portal, which offers CUES members easy access to curated content and preset learning pathways on a wide range of business topics.
- CUES Online Events
- Elite Access Virtual Classroom, allowing students to interact, problem-solve, and build relationships while they learn. Free to Unlimited and Unlimited+ members; nonmembers can attend for a small fee.
- Director Education Center, with interactive learning pathways designed to support and enhance board member knowledge. Available to all members.
- Governance+, pre-designed digital learning pathways providing premium director education and training, available to Unlimited+ members.
- CUES Online University™, powered by TRC Interactive, offers compliance and front-line training—including fraud prevention—at a very low cost.
- First Line of Defense™, powered by TRC Interactive, offers innovative, interactive fraud prevention training.
- CUES Webinars Series
Learn more about CUES at cues.org. To learn how to become a CUES member, visit cues.org/Membership.
CUES is the leading Talent Development solutions provider for credit unions in North America. We educate, develop and support credit union CEOs, executives, directors, and emerging leaders through partnerships with premier business schools, live and online events, digital learning, networking, and premium content. With over 28,000 members and growing, we measure success one leader at a time.
Connect with CUES at CUES.org and on LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. For daily insights on issues impacting credit unions visit CUmanagement.com.
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Mark L. Robnett, CCE
Mark L. Robnett is the President and CEO of Justice Federal Credit Union, managing a robust institution with over $1 billion in assets, serving over 67,000 members from the justice, law enforcement and public safety sectors. The credit union has branches in major cities like Washington, DC, Los Angeles, Atlanta, Chicago, Miami, New York, and regions in Texas, Virginia, and West Virginia. Mark has a strong track record in financial, strategic, and operational leadership. He holds the Certified Chief Executive credential from CUES. His education includes the CUES CEO Institute programs at The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, Cornell's Johnson Graduate School of Management, and the University of Virginia's Darden School of Business. Additionally, Mark is certified in GIAC Security Leadership, an advanced credential in information security. He earned his undergraduate degree from Oakland University, specializing in Management Information Systems (MIS).
Richard R. Romero
To Richard Romero, it’s all about personal prosperity. Over the several stops of his professional career–which started as a part-time teller while attending college–Richard came to realize that the best thing a financial institution could do is to help its customers achieve financial success.
Leadership and the ability to relate are essential to his work for Seattle Credit Union’s members. It was an old branch assistant manager who showed him a leader’s job is to teach and motivate. He believes his personal immigrant experience gave him the ability to connect with the people on the other side of the counter or desk at each of his banking stops since 1988.
In the end, Richard says the best part of his job is providing financial services to everyone, especially those who may have been underserved by financial institutions or abused by alternative financial service providers. He’s proud he’s built a staff that agrees. This is why Seattle Credit Union members can escape the bad experiences they’ve had with some financial institutions, check-cashing services, or high-interest used car loans, instead receiving the services they need to properly take their place in the American economy. From his perspective, leading Seattle Credit Union allows him to pay back his own success to the members and the community at large, as CEO and the boards of the United Way, King County, the YWCA of King and Snohomish Counties, Inclusiv – an industry organization focused on community development credit unions and CUES–Credit Union Executive Society.
Dr. Margaret Heffernan
Dr. Margaret Heffernan produced programs for the BBC for 13 years. She then moved to the U.S. where she spearheaded multimedia productions for Intuit, The Learning Company and Standard&Poors. She was Chief Executive of InfoMation Corporation, ZineZone Corporation and then iCast Corporation, was named one of the "Top 25" by Streaming Media magazine and one of the "Top 100 Media Executives" by The Hollywood Reporter.
The author of six books, Margaret’s third book, Willful Blindness : Why We Ignore the Obvious at our Peril was named one of the most important business books of the decade by the Financial Times. In 2015, she was awarded the Transmission Prize for A Bigger Prize: Why Competition isn’t Everything and How We Do Better, described as "meticulously researched... engagingly written... universally relevant and hard to fault." Her TED talks have been seen by over twelve million people and in 2015 TED published Beyond Measure: The Big Impact of Small Changes. Her most recent book, Uncharted: How to map the future was published in 2020.
She is a Professor of Practice at the University of Bath School of Mangement (UK), Lead Faculty for the Forward Institute’s Responsible Leadership Programme and, through Merryck & Co., mentors CEOs and senior executives of major global organizations. She holds an honorary doctorate from the University of Bath and continues to write for the Financial Times and the Huffington Post.
Dr. Nancy Herbert
Dr. Nancy Herbert’s experience as a board director for over 24 entities, combined with her research and recent Ph.D. in Organizational Development and Leadership, have given rise to her unique expertise as a board sage. In Colorado, Dr. Herbert served a four-year term as an elected municipal official, and was as school district administrator where she directed communications, public relations, and national award winning school-business partnership programs. She also represented the school district as a speaker, trainer and facilitator for business, community, and employee groups for over 17 years. Based on her passion for community volunteerism and activism, she served as a board director or board chair for a wide range of differing agencies, such as business, education, government, and non-profit.
Dr. Herbert has served as a board director, governance and nominating chair, secretary, vice-chair, or board chair for two credit unions in Colorado. Her distinctive research, a qualitative multiple case study, explored the experience and perceptions of female board members on majority male credit union boards of directors. Her work as board advisor, speaker, facilitator, or seminar lecturer, includes new empirical data and research-based recommendations revealed in her study.
Recently Dr. Herbert augmented her leadership expertise with Oxford University’s Women’s Leadership Development certification. Her current effort to provide support for boards of directors is as CEO/Founder of the Boardroom Sage, LLC, a coaching/consulting business with a focus on board governance.
Dr. Michael Useem
Michael Useem is Professor of Management and Director of the Center for Leadership and Change Management at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. His university teaching includes MBA and executive-MBA courses on management and leadership, and he offers programs on leadership and governance for managers and directors in the United States, Asia, Europe, and Latin America. He is author of The Leadership Moment, Investor Capitalism, and The Leader’s Checklist, and co-author of Boards That Lead and Leadership Dispatches.
Dr. Mario Moussa
Mario Moussa, President of Moussa Consulting, is a noted management consultant, author, keynote speaker, and executive educator. Currently Affiliated Faculty at the University of Pennsylvania, he has taught at the world’s leading academic institutions, including UCLA, Duke, the University of Virginia, and the Wharton School. As a consultant, he advises senior leaders about top team effectiveness, communication, organizational culture, and large-scale change initiatives. He has delivered workshops on leadership, strategic persuasion, negotiation, collaboration, and culture to thousands of executives in New York, San Francisco, Beijing, Shanghai, Mumbai, Sao Paulo, London, Istanbul, and other major cities around the world. His work has been featured on National Public Radio as well as in leading publications, including Time Magazine, Business Week, U.S. News and World Report, Fortune.com, Forbes.com, Inc., Entrepreneur, The Economist, The Financial Times, and The Philadelphia Inquirer.