Expanding Horizons. Exploring Possibilities.
Southwest CUNA Management School is the go-to experience for rising and C-suite credit union professionals. The school provides higher academic style learning and engagement opportunities. Providing a diverse mix learning environments, students build business acumen, broaden their vision for their own credit union’s strategic direction, expand leadership capabilities, collaborate, and grow networks to last a lifetime.
Transforming for tomorrow’s leaders, a blend of in-person, live virtual, and micro-learning courses provide an immersive online experience focusing on:
- Innovation and strategy: Identifying and solving industry problems
- Credit union growth
- Professional and personal development
- Productive collaboration and networking
Curriculum may Include:
First Year
Laying the Foundation
- ALM/Finance
- Communications
- Data Analytics
- DEI
- Economics
- Enhancing Productivity
- Entrepreneurial Thinking
- Evolution of Workplace Safety
- Innovation
- Organizational Culture
- Personal Brand
- Presentation Skills
- Project Management
- Risk Management
- Scenario Planning
- Stakeholder Experiences
- Systems Thinking
- Web-based Networking Strategies
Second Year
Trends and Strategy
- Adaptive Thinking
- Advocacy
- ALM/Finance
- Budgeting
- Branding
- Business Development
- Communications
- Data Analytics
- DEI
- Economics
- Ethics
- Fintech Trends
- Governance
- Industry Trends
- Lending
- Risk Management
- Scenario Planning
- Stakeholder Experience
- Strategic Benchmarking
- Talent Optimization
Third Year
Focusing Forward
- Adaptive Leadership
- Advocacy
- ALM/Finance
- Branding
- Communications
- Data Analytics
- Digital Life and Global Trends
- Economics
- Ethics
- Financial Simulation
- Leader Action Plan
- Leading with Purpose
- Lending
- Negotiation Strategies
- Risk Management
- Scenario Planning and Mapping
- Trends and Disruptors