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Credit Union Times
MARCH 21, 2018 | VOL. 29 | NO. 9 | CUTIMES.COM
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Stopping Gun
Violence
CUs should speak out
on the issue. Y14
Core
Transitions
Plan ahead for a
smooth one. Y10
When it comes to technology, credit unions want
solutions that allow flexibility, improve the member
experience and simplify back-end processes. Learn
how one credit union reached these goals through
a single core conversion in this Focus Report. Y6
CORE PROCESSING
FOCUSREPORT: Must Reads
HUMAN RESOURCES
Tech and Workplace Safety
Technology is opening new fron-
tiers in risk management.
Keeping pace with these fast-
paced advancements can be
tough. But using new technology
to prevent human and financial
losses that otherwise would oc-
cur, is certainly worth the effort.
When reviewing the latest trends, keep in mind that
these are tools and strategies,
not silver bullets. The culture
and customs that lead to a safe
workplace, and a higher quality
enterprise, are deeply-rooted in
the four traditional cornerstones
of sound safety management,
which are:
• Management Commitment
& Employee Involvement
• Worksite Analysis
• Hazard Prevention & Control
• Training
Once that foundation is firmly
in place, take a look at these sub-
categories in the tech space that
could become difference-mak-
ers in your organization.
There Really Is an
App for That
Apps are being released at a staggering pace, and this is greatly
influencing workplace safety.
Just run a web search for
“worker (or worksite) safety
apps” or “environmental safety
apps” and see what it returns.
When considering new technology, we must appreciate
that there are safety apps developed in lockstep with true safety
professionals, and then
Open Your Eyes to a New Campaign
rare event happens when a crowd of credit union professionals gather in a room and
all agree on the discussed topic.
Some may even describe it as a
miracle.
Yet, this actually happened
during a CUNA GAC breakout
session last month when credit
union executives and employ-
ees from across the nation all
seemed to have nothing but posi-
tive comments about a new mar-
keting campaign, Open Your
Eyes, which may become the next
game changer for
the credit union
industry.
“This is the third
national branding
effort that we’ve
had in the credit
union system,” Rich
Helber, president/
CEO of the $695 million Tropical
Financial Credit Union in Miramar,
Fla., said. “We’ve made more prog-
ress than anybody else ever has. I
really love what you’re doing.”
“Brilliant!” ex-
claimed millennial
employee Tyler
Kuhn, who works
in marketing and
community rela-
tions at the $462
million Dover Fed-
eral Credit
PETER STROZNIAK
pstrozniak@cutimes.com
MARKETING
Y17 Helber Kuhn Y18
arrie Foran Sepulveda graduated from
the University of Virginia with a degree
in business in 2009, the second
year of the Great Recession when
5. 5 million workers
lost their jobs and
few companies
were shopping for
college grads.
She chose to enroll in the Teach
for America program, helping high
schoolers in a poor
section of Hawaii learn math.
Three years and a master’s degree
in education later, she pursued
her original career ambition by
joining Navy Federal Credit Union
as a business analyst.
By late 2013, she was working on
a project near and dear to her generation: A program to help students
and recent graduates pay for their
often enormous education debts.
She worked to create a private
student loan program for Navy
Federal under Aaron Aggerwal,
who got his MBA while working
as a business analyst at Sallie Mae
from 2004 to 2010.
The student loan program was
launched in April 2015, providing
an additional tool for members to
cover education costs while
LENDING
Big CUs Lift
Education
Loans
JIM DUPLESSIS
jduplessis@cutimes.com
Sepulveda