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🌟 Drumroll, please! 🌟 After three years of courses through CUIC and Dalhousie University, I am thrilled to announce that I am now officially an Accredited Credit Union Director (ACCUD)! 🏦💼 So, what does this mean? Aside from earning a fancy new title to add to my LinkedIn profile, it signifies my commitment to excellence in the world of credit unions and board governance. #ACCUD #CreditUnionLeadership #GeekOutMoment

Are you really clear on how you want people to see your business? Better question and the first one to ask is are you clear on how you WANT people to see your business and the follow up question is are you delivering a clear message that tells that story? See you at the @MillerBusinessCenter to join Arthur Germain

Please join me in recognizing the Greater Georgia Market 2024 Platinum Council Advisors! The Platinum Council (previously known as Premier Advisor) distinction is held by a select group of Financial Advisors within Wells Fargo Advisors as measured by completion of educational components, business production based on the past year, and professionalism. Additional criteria, best practices and team structure, may also be used to determine recipients. Platinum Council levels are based on the previous calendar year's gross revenue, and are defined as follows: Diamond – Top 15 Financial Advisors, Ruby – Top 2% (including Diamond recipients), Emerald – Next 5%, and Sapphire – Next 8%

I grabbed the opportunity to sit down with Alan Pullinger for the last time in his role as CEO of FirstRand. "It's been an honour and a privilege." On presenting the last set of results: It's been an honour and a privilege, FirstRand is a special place. I joined 26 years ago, I knew nothing about banking, and it was a gift to be able to learn from GT Ferreira, Laurie Dippenaar and Paul Harris, they taught me the ropes. So it's an absolute gift, I've been super, super lucky. FirstRand is a family it's not just a job. Don't tell the remuneration committee, but I would probably do it for free." On leaving: People always say to me when you leave what earnings number do you want to achieve? What are you looking for? What share price are you looking for? I can't control those things. But there are some things that we can control. One of them is, the mojo of the business. How the group is feeling. Are we on the front foot? Engagement with employees, are we still attracting talent? How do our people feel? I think we're in a good space, I'm not sure I can ask for any more than that. I'm going to do my best on the numbers, and the team will do their best but it will be what it is. On interest rates: I don't think the environment is going to get easier. It’s likely to be more of the same. When we started off the new year new and got back from holiday it didn't take long for load shedding to come back and all of the things that we thought were a 2023 phenomenon have started again. The South African Reserve Bank has said interest rates are in restrictive territory. And you can see that it's having an impact. There's no doubt it is throttling consumers, but I do think later in the current year we will see interest rate cuts. But there are two points I would want to make. One interest rate cuts are going to be further out than we think. And secondly, it's going to be a shallow cutting cycle. We expect the repo to go from eight and a quarter to seven. But that's it. We don't think there's much more than one and a quarter percent of cuts coming On what is next: I know, it's going to sound crazy if I say this, but I actually am not sure. I have really had my head down focusing on FirstRand to the very last day. I hand over at the end of March, then I'm going to take a little bit of leave. I do need to contemplate what I'm going to do. I haven't had a break for a very long time. So I'm not sure what that feels like. So this transition is it's exciting, but I suppose a little bit daunting for me. So I need to go through that. I'm not going to rush to sign up to lots of things otherwise when we bump into each other in a year's time I'm going to tell you how busy I am because I'm sitting on so many boards, and I'm reading so many board packs and I'm going to be complaining again. I'm going to take a break and then I'll see what is next. I still have a little bit too much energy to choose to go and sit in the garden.

Congratulations to my colleague Ari Fitzgerald, lead of the Hogan Lovells' Communications, Internet, and Media practice, on receiving the Distinguished Service Award at the 2024 FCBA Spring Reception! Well-deserved, Ari. Your dedication to the FCBA and leadership in communications law is inspiring. Learn more about the prestigious award below. #FCBA #DistinguishedServiceAward #CommunicationsLaw

"Kindness is the new superpower!" 🌟 - John A. Heath Big shoutout to John A. Heath! Your impact at Turo and beyond inspires me daily. Check out John A. Heath's interview with National Black Professional Lobbyists Association on how Turo and NBPLA are both empowering future leaders and entrepreneurs 📈 --> https://lnkd.in/gtrKTmES"

What a fab way to wrap up our 2023-2024 program year! Join us as we learn with Laura Berman Fortgang, MCC about #careercoaching and helping your clients find #career satisfaction. 

✈ Let me tell you where I was last week! ✈ I went to Minneapolis to speak on a panel for the National Credit Union Association’s DEI Summit on Sustaining DEI with a Diverse Board. This year's theme was Here to Stay! I was joined by my colleague Stephanie McCaine as representatives for the Hudson Valley Credit Union, Amy Nelson, Oscar Porras, I- CUDE, and Peter Hand, who represent Point West Credit Union. The phenomenal Lynette Smith from Quantum Governance, L3C was our moderator. 🥡 Here's my 3 takeaways from the session 🥡 ☑ Commit to the DEI discipline on a board level. Financial inclusion is the responsibility of all credit unions as a "cooperative of people helping people." The purpose is to create pathways for access and sustainable prosperity for everyone, no matter their socio-economic status or identity. How will your board be a catalyst to bring this to fruition? ☑ Elect Board Members who reflect your membership (or desired membership); admittedly, your Board may never fully represent your community, but that doesn't mean you shouldn't try. Solicit candidates based on skills and gaps (even cultural ones) required to meet your business, #equity, and #inclusion goals. Board members serve as a critical voice in the management of the organization and need to be equipped with the people and tools to deliver impact. ☑ Don't stop. Despite the distorted rhetoric around DEI, lean in. Ensure management bakes it into their strategic plans, regularly reports on progress, and that you hold each other accountable. You can only do this by creating an environment of trust and mutual understanding, so don't be afraid to have a frank dialogue about what is being done well and what needs to be improved. Everyone is at different starting points, and that's okay. Just keep moving forward and aspire to be better than before. There are so many more takeaways, but I have to watch the video to remember! It was incredibly inspiring to be surrounded by so many people who truly cared about the importance of creating financial inclusion for all and saw DEI as their responsibility as major financial institutions serving their communities. NCUA Chairmen Todd Harper said it best, "If done correctly, diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives can and will narrow the income gap, support a robust and growing middle class, advance equity, and make our democracy stronger and more resilient." ➕ BONUS ➕ : It also happened to be the week of the Gala Choruses Festival, which attracts the LGTBQ+ community, so the city was brimming with people from across North America and the world, plus all those who came to the DEI Summit. It was truly spectacular to see so much diversity in one place and be enveloped by Minnesota's niceness! Photo credit: Thank you to the wonderful woman who shared this photo with me. #NCUA #HVCU #DEI #Boards #Leadership #NCUADEISummit2024

Focusing on the needs of small credit unions!

The Blended Finance Scheme is  dedicated to empowering development farmers, fostering the active involvement of black producers and predominantly black-owned enterprises in the agricultural value chains, advancing their journey towards commercialization. Here is what the scheme is aimed to achieve: