Expanding Horizons. Exploring Possibilities.
Southwest Credit Union Management School is the go-to experience for rising and C-suite credit union professionals. 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.
The school provides higher academic-style learning and engagement opportunities. To transform tomorrow’s leaders, SCMS provides a blend of in-person, live-virtual, and micro-learning courses that provide an immersive experience focusing on:
- Innovation and strategy: Identifying opportunities and resolving industry frictions
- Credit union growth
- Professional and personal leadership development
- Productive collaboration and networking
Curriculum may Include:
First Year
Laying the Foundation
- Advocacy: Understanding Credit Union Legislation
- AI as a Business Strategy
- Call Report Trends, Challenges, & Opportunities
- Cohesion Culture
- Communication Theory
- Data-Driven Leadership
- Embedded Financing
- Entrepreneurial Thinking
- Financial Management
- HR: Compensation & Structure
- Introduction to Open Banking
- Market-Based Pricing of Loans
- Presentation Skills for Today's Business Environment
- Risk Management
- The 6 Types of Working Genius
- Understanding Financial Reports
- Workplace Risk & Safety
- Your Professional Brand & Persona
Second Year
Trends and Strategy
- Adaptive Thinking
- Advocacy: Debating the Issues
- AI-Building a Roadmap
- Applied Data Strategy
- Data Governance
- Ethics is NOT an Option
- Financial Management
- Financial Simulation
- Leveraging Neurodiversity and Unconscious Bias for Innovation and Inclusion
- HR: When to Move from Coaching to Discipline
- Optimizing Remote Talent aka Cohesion Culture™ ReTENTION
- Refactoring Your Lending Program
- Risk Management
- Strategic Business & Marketing
- Teams & Teaming: The Power of Working Together
Third Year
Focusing Forward
- Being an Effective Change Agent
- CUSOs: How Credit Unions and Entrepreneurs Can Get Started (And Win!) with Credit Union Service Organizations
- Enterprise Risk Management
- Essentials of Negotiation
- Exponential Thinking
- Fintech & App Development Landscape
- Financial Strategy Execution
- Forecasting Trends in the Financial Industry
- Learning Never Stops: Hot Topic
- Organizational Communication
- Risk Management
- Scenario Planning & Mapping
- The Self-Care Advantage: Elevating Leadership Capacity
- Third-Year Oral Presentations
First-Year Students
Class of 2027
- July 13-18, 2025: In-person at TCU
- Oct. 21-23, 2025 (9-11 a.m. CT): Virtual-Live Classes
- May 5-7, 2026 (9-11 a.m. CT): Virtual-Live Classes
Second-Year Students
Class of 2026
- May 6-8, 2025 (9-11 a.m. CT): Virtual-Live Classes
- July 13-18, 2025: In-person at TCU
- Oct. 1-17, 2025: Virtual Team Assignment
- Oct. 21-23, 2025 (1-3 p.m. CT): Virtual-Live Classes
- May 5-7, 2026 (1-3 p.m. CT): Virtual-Live Classes
Third-Year Students
Class of 2025
- May 6-8, 2025 (1-3 p.m. CT): Virtual-Live Classes
- July 13-18, 2025: In-person at TCU