Board Governance

A modernized board can be your credit union’s greatest strategic advantage.

We spend a lot of time and effort finding better ways to serve our members and yet we have have overlooked our most significant strategic advantage—the volunteer board of directors.
Susan Mitchell
Chief Executive Officer

Board Governance

We work with credit unions to build a modernized, more diverse board that reflects your credit union’s membership.

Because each credit union is unique, we don’t have a “cookie-cutter” way to work with credit union boards. Instead, we honor diversity and work with credit unions to create forward-thinking strategies to meet the needs of members:

  • Find your credit union’s North Star
  • Define your vision, mission and values
  • Map strategic initiatives to put your plan into action
  • Create processes for strategic check-ins and updates
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Diversity Matters

Your board should reflect your membership and we can help you get there.

From board recruitment to leadership transitioning and onboarding, your commitment to diversity should reflect in all you do at the credit union. And it must start at the top and with your volunteers. We’ll help you find the gaps and provide strategic ways to fill those gaps. 

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Diversity and Your Credit Union

Learn ways to interweave diversity effectively into your credit union.

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Join the UNDERGROUND Today

The UNDERGROUND drives change, engages diverse opinions, and forces off-record discussions to become on-record initiatives.  Here’s what people are saying:  

I love that the UNDERGROUND is a safe place to have really hard, tough conversations on relevant current events. Probably my favorite part of it is the "Ideas Into Action." It’s not this pie in the sky, big stuff up there (we talk about those things too, of course). We create real actionable items we can put into action.
Gerry Singleton
CUNA Mutual Group
I appreciate that you create a safe space that our movement needs. We need to challenge one another and we need to take a hard look at how well we are responding to really difficult outside events. And if we do that we'll be so much stronger for it. I'm glad you make space for it.
Caroline Willard
Cornerstone League
I think the UNDERGROUND is an opportunity to have discussions for progressive credit union leaders who want to be here 20 years from now. I can go in and say that I may not like what I’m going to hear, but it’s a different view point of view. I can learn something from it. It may not change my mind, but if nothing else, I’m going to learn something different from this and challenge the way I’m doing things and be a better leader because of it.
Bo McDonald
Your Marketing Co.
When you hold the forums, you create a trusted environment for those ideas. Not saying you have to agree with everything, and yet you’re not restricting. It’s free-flowing. Maybe out of 10 random ideas, two will stick with somebody and will create something new, something radical, something different, something better. And that is what this is about.
Shazia Manus
CUNA Mutual Group
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