By Bill Prichard

Cory Booker could have been you. 

For a moment, while he was attending Yale Law School, the mayor of Newark, N.J., looked into the idea of starting a credit union. The idea didn’t pan out and – as Booker told a credit union audience at the THINK 13 Conference on May 1 in Chicago – other challenges lay ahead.

By Lisa Hochgraf

In recent history, participants in CUES Net, the CUES-members-only listserv, were talking about how to best reach and serve younger members.

Tonya Gail, marketing director at $86 million Box Elder Community Credit Union, Brigham City, Utah, offered these great things she's been doing to reach out to the younger demographic; including women:

By John A. Vardallas, CAE, CUDE

With all the recent events unfolding in the American business and political sector, perhaps the most concerning isn’t so much the competency of leadership, but rather its ethics. The economic inequality in America is being blamed on the greed of corporate leadership!

By John A. Vardallas, CAE, CUDE

2013 is the year of the snake. The snake is smart, coy and clever, but it is also ready to strike at any time, leaving those around it with the sense it will always be guarded.  

By Teresa Freeborn

One trait setting credit unions apart from our financial services competitors is a history of collaboration with one another. In that spirit, when Xceed Financial Credit Union was asked by CUES to describe and share our director education policy, we were happy to do so.

By Ellen Bartholomew

By Brett Christensen

By John Bugalla

By Christopher Stevenson

A month or so ago, NCUA board member Michael Fryzel wrote an excellent article about an easy way to incorporate ongoing professional development into credit union board meetings. He called it "The Extra 30."

Here's how it works.