Schedule

Monday, May 9, 2022
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM

Registration

 
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM

Welcome & Opening General Session
Position Yourself for Growth
Panel Discussion

Join former YP Advisors and Crashers in this interactive session as they share their personal and professional experiences. Gain insight into the benefits of the YP program through personal accounts and hear how individuals have used program resources to grow in their career.

Advocacy 101

Learn what advocacy is, its role in the credit union movement, and how you can get involved. Discover how you can enhance your value as a leader with refined advocacy skills.

 
5:00 PM - 6:00 PM

Networking Reception

Headshots

 
Tuesday, May 10, 2022
8:00 AM - 8:30 AM

Networking Breakfast

 
8:30 AM - 9:45 AM

Opening Keynote
You Gotta Water Your Own Plants: How to Grow and Thrive as a Leader

Leadership is not always about doing more; it's about shifting from doing to leading. As you make a shift to enhance your leadership capacity, an essential strategy for guiding your growth is creating a personal leadership plan. This type of plan can help you grow in your current role and prepare you to take on additional leadership responsibilities in a new role. In this session, Arika Pierce will share the mindsets, beliefs, and actions you need to thrive and be more successful in your organization.

Learning Outcomes:

  • How to improve your leadership presence and effectiveness.
  • Strategies to identify and optimize your strengths to build influence and your personal brand.
  • Best practices for developing the mindset of a forward-thinking leader.
9:45 AM - 10:00 AM

Stretch Break

 
10:00 AM - 11:00 AM

Power Hours

Back by popular demand.

Take advantage of your conference experience. Join one of our open-space power hours for a quick-paced, informative session to share best practices and bring real-life experiences and problem-solving skills to the table. Hear from fellow young professionals as they discuss challenges, pain points, and opportunities facing their credit unions and professional development. Choose the best session for you and prepare to power up. Bring a list of questions, ideas, and an open mind.

  1. Lending/Collections—During this session, lending and collections professionals discuss pits and peaks and hot topics within their credit unions.
  2. Marketing/Business Development—The session provides an open forum for marketing and business development professions to discuss what works, what flops, and what has made their credit unions stand out in the community.
  3. Human Resources/Training—This session allows human resources and training professionals to initiate intimate discussions, share, and have compelling and thought-provoking conversations on a range of human resource and employee development-related topics affecting company culture. Topics may include training, coaching, and counseling, rewards, and recognition, and more.
 
11:15 AM - 12:15 PM

Power Hours

Back by popular demand.

Take advantage of your conference experience. Join one of our open-space power hours for a quick-paced, informative session to share best practices and bring real-life experiences and problem-solving skills to the table. Hear from fellow young professionals as they discuss challenges, pain points, and opportunities facing their credit unions and professional development. Choose the best session for you and prepare to power up. Bring a list of questions, ideas, and an open mind.

  1. Operations—This session provides an open forum for to share ideas and discuss service culture, member and employee engagement, and relevant issues.
  2. Lending/Collections—During this session, lending and collections professionals discuss pits and peaks and hot topics within their credit unions.
  3. Member Experience—Member experience is all the buzz in credit unions. Come and share ideas on what your credit union is doing to be a differentiator and stay in the compliance zone.
 
12:15 PM - 1:15 PM

Networking Lunch

Young Professional of the Year Award Presentation

 
1:15 PM - 2:15 PM

General Session
Finding Your Guide: The Power of Mentorship

We all understand the power of mentorship as a concept, but few of us put in the work of understanding what we want out of life, identifying those who we want to learn from, and being intentional about creating a relationship with them.

The wisest leaders among us will tell you it was their mentors who made all the difference. In this session, Regan Pugh discusses the importance of working with mentors and the impact they can make in your career.

Learning Outcomes:

  • Reflect on the areas you need to grow in to help identify the right mentor for you
  • Work through a formula for approaching and building relationships with potential mentors
  • Reinforce the importance of you becoming a mentor and paying it forward
2:15 PM - 2:30 PM

Stretch Break

 
2:30 PM - 3:30 PM

General Session
Everyone Communicates, Few Connect

World-renowned leadership expert John Maxwell finds that if you want to succeed, you must learn how to connect with people. While it may seem like some folks are just born with it, the fact is anyone can learn how to make every communication an opportunity for a powerful connection. In this session, attendees will learn Maxwell’s five principles and five practices to develop the crucial skill of connecting, including:

  • Finding Common Ground
  • Keeping Your Communication Simple
  • Capturing People’s Interest
  • Inspiring People
  • Staying Authentic in all Your Relationships

The ability to connect with others is a major determining factor in reaching your full potential. Connecting is a skill you can learn and apply in your personal, professional, and family relationships, and you can learn now throughout this course.

3:30 PM - 3:45 PM

Stretch Break

 
3:45 PM - 5:00 PM

Reverse Crasher Panel

Facilitator: Sarah Bowman, Cornerstone League

Our CEO Reverse Crashers take the stage to share their personal and professional journey that has led to their current position. Engage in this interactive session as they impart their wisdom and share best practices and advice for the next generation of leaders.

 
5:30 PM - 8:00 PM

YP Meet Up

 
Wednesday, May 11, 2022
9:00 AM - 9:30 AM

Networking Breakfast

 
9:30 AM - 10:45 AM

Closing Keynote
Resilience to Thrive

This has been the most challenging year we have ever faced. Even though we have gone through unimaginable challenges, we can still thrive. Just because the world feels closed doesn’t mean we need to be. We can still thrive through uncertainty and come out the other side better than before. How? By building resilience.

In this engaging presentation, Juan Bendaña shares empowering stories of challenges that highlight the core strategies of building resilience. Bendaña doesn’t just speak about resilience, he is living proof of it. Through storytelling, he shares a part of himself with the audience that has them rethink their life’s biggest challenges and helps them to build a real plan to thrive. This impactful presentation will leave a lasting impression on audience members.  

Learning Outcomes:

  • How to build resiliency while going through challenges
  • How to overcome challenges by building confidence
  • Thriving through life by creating a system for support
  • Self-care and how to manage stress and anxiety
  • Taking care of your mental health
  • How to reach out for help and build a community
10:45 AM - 11:00 AM

Closing Remarks

Prizes & Free 2023 Young Professionals Conference Registration Drawing