Credit Unions, Coffee & Conversations

MCUL CEO Patty Corkery talks with Bill Beardsley, President/CEO of Michigan Business Connection. The two discuss the power of CUSOs in the Michigan credit union movement, the current lending landscape and professional development.

MCUL CEO Patty Corkery talks with Kyle Gurzynski, EVP of Safe Harbor and 2021 MCUL Young Professional of the Year, about the current environment of a small-asset credit union, his enthusiasm about young professional development and what current executives can do to help usher in the next generation of industry leaders.

MCUL CEO Patty Corkery talks with Attorney General Dana Nessel, a lifelong Michigander that has been in office for nearly three years. Before becoming Attorney General, Nessel garnered a reputation as a lawyer who fought for civil rights issues. Among other things, they discuss her professional journey, coming into office right before a pandemic and issues she and credit unions have successfully c...

MCUL CEO Patty Corkery talks with Chrissy Siders, CEO of Jackson-based TRUE Community, a $680M-in-assets credit union, about coming up through the industry through compliance, experiencing a name change, charter conversion and merger, alongside covid, over the past year, as well as how TRUE Community “cultivates legacy-defining moments.”

The latest episode of MCUL’s podcast series, Credit Unions, Coffee and Conversation, features MSU Federal Credit Union CEO April Clobes. When Clobes started at the Lansing-based, $6.26B-in-assets credit union, there were less than 100 employees, which has grown since to nearly 1,000. Those employees serve 311,000 members across 24 branches in the Lansing area. MCUL CEO Patty Corkery talks with Clo...

Women in Investing: https://www.mcul.org/go.php?bid=1237 MCUL Awards: https://www.mcul.org/awards Patty talks with Jeff Benson, CEO of CASE Credit Union, a $380M-in-assets credit union based in Lansing. The Lansing native, who has been CEO of the 46,000-member credit union for more than a decade, discussed branch evolution, mergers, remote work, the next generation of CU leaders and much more.

The latest guest on my podcast series, Credit Unions, Coffee and Conversation, is Connie Toensing, President/CEO of Chippewa County Credit Union in Sault Ste. Marie.  Connie has been with the almost 38-million-asset credit union for more than three decades - the last 24 as CEO - and has truly grown alongside the organization. We discussed running a small credit union in Northern Michigan, some of...

Michigan Legacy Credit Union, headquartered in Wyandotte, has been serving community members since 1946. The credit union has assets totaling more than $260 million and provides services to more than 23,000 members. President and CEO Carma Peters, who also serves as the Secretary and Treasurer for the MCUL Board, led the credit union to a 2021 MCUL Innovation Award due to her commitment to finding...

Introducing MCUL's new podcast series, Credit Unions, Coffee and Conversation, where MCUL CEO Patty Corkery will be traveling around the state to do just what the title says: have casual conversations with credit union leaders. The purpose of this series is to help us, both MCUL and listeners of the series, to better get to know members of the Michigan credit union community. Patty's fir...

Headquartered in Flint, Michigan, FPCU serves over 55,000 members through its branch network and digital banking channels.  Brad works with the credit union team and its Board of Directors to continue its mission of delivering trusted, technologically forward, and easily-accessible financial services to the communities it serves. Prior to returning home to Michigan, the Monroe native most recently...