Women to Watch

Credit Union Times is rolling out the red carpet to spotlight influential, forward-thinking women reshaping the future of the credit union community.

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• Stacie Wyss-Schoenborn Seeks Innovation One Step at a Time: Women to Watch May 15

  For Stacie Wyss-Schoenborn, vice president of member solutions at BECU, the term status quo simply isn’t in her vocabulary.

• Unhappy at Work? Be an Intrapreneur May 14

• Try Being More Like a Kindergartner May 14

• Truths for Our Daughters May 13

  In her hbr.org blog post, Joan Solotar, senior managing director/Head of the External Relations & Strategy Group, and a member of both the executive and management Committees at the Blackstone Group, says to encourage young graduates be realistic but focus on the positives as well.

• Today's Daily Dose of W2W Wisdom (Video) May 10

  Today Denise Gabel, COO at the Northwest Credit Union Association, talks about the voice of a leader.

• A Drop of Wisdom a Day: W2W Video May 9

  Today, a few thoughts from DATCU CFO Melanie Vest, a CU Times Woman to Watch, on what it takes to be an effective leader.

• Imposter Syndrome-Don't Let It Stall Your Career May 8

• 11 Reasons Workplace Fun Isn't of the Devil May 7

• Act Like a Leader Before You Are One May 7

• HeartSaver: Experimenting with New Games to Tell a Story Apr 29

  This past weekend, a team from ProPublica competed in the GEN Editors’ Lab New York hack day, with the theme “Newsgaming.”

• Here's A Google Perk Any Company Can Imitate: Employee-to-Employee Learning Apr 17

  Google taps its own ranks to teach valuable career-building classes as well as "extracurriculars" like kickboxing and social skills for engineers.

• Female Advisers Say Connection with Women Clients Yields Success Apr 17

  Suzi Williams remembers 30 years ago when a male client would come in for retirement advice and other long-term goals, and if married and his wife came in too, she would sit quietly.

• Women in a Man's World Apr 15

  Irene Dorner blames herself — and her female colleagues — for the lack of women on Wall Street.

• ABA President, Scorning 'Work-Life' Balance, Abandons The Profession's Women Apr 15

  There have been 136 Presidents of the American Bar Association. Five of them have been women, including this year's President, Laurel Bellows, who has caused quite a stir among women attorneys by calling the idea of work-life balance a "fraud."

• Lesson From a Woman of Wall Street: Ask For What You Want Apr 10

  Megan Brown isn’t the first woman to get pregnant and exit corporate life, frustrated and finished with the “rat race.” But she is among the minority to have climbed the ranks of Wall Street – accepting, and actually loving, being a woman in the dog-eat-dog world of a not-so-female-friendly industry...

• Use All LinkedIn Features Or UnLink Apr 10

  With Facebook and Twitter dominating the social media scene, LinkedIn has been, for the most part, waiting to join the conversation.

• Victim No More: How to Stop Self Sabotaging Apr 1

  You can’t move forward professionally until you get out of your head and into action.

• Women Entrepreneurs Face Higher Operating Costs, Slimmer Margins: Biz2Credit Mar 28

  Biz2Credit financing match firm also finds loan approval rates 15% to 20% lower for female-owned companies.

• Cast A Wider Net in Networking Mar 19

  Women are good at networking with other women.

• Go Toward Your Fear, Do Less, And Five More Surprising Leadership Lessons For Women Mar 18

  Surprising leadership lessons for women.

• How Serious Play Leads To Breakthrough Innovation Mar 4

  Takeaways from Creative Intelliegence by Bruce Nussbaum.

• Not for CEOs: Succession Planning Means More Than Just Replacing People Mar 4

  Executives hold forth on what succession planning means to them in Not for CEOs gathering at GAC.

• Women to Watch: EVP Clobes Gets Her Thrills From Finding Solutions Feb 19

  April Clobes, EVP/COO at Michigan State University Federal Credit Union, is just relentless when it comes to finding solutions.

• To-Be List for Aspiring Women Leaders Feb 19

  Typically, the question on their minds when I begin is "what do I need to DO to become a leader?" I quickly aim to change their orientation from what they must DO to what they must BE.

• 5 Essential Facts About the Financially Underserved Feb 19

  In order to succeed in the 21st century, credit unions cannot afford to not serve the enormous and growing population of financially underserved consumer.

• Why Innovators Love Constraints Feb 6

  While dreaming and disrupting has unfettered me in many ways, it has shackled me in others. One of the most unexpected was losing a part of my identity.

• You're a Credit Union, Not a Coffee Shop Feb 4

  Who doesn’t want to be Amazon, Starbucks or Zappos? But who can, really?

• Tide, Oreo Jump On Blackout Bandwagon With Social Ads As Super Bowl Briefly Delayed at Superdome Feb 4

  The momentum came to a screeching halt in the third quarter leaving some to wonder if someone in Louisiana forgot to pay the electricity bill.

• Xceed Financial Commits to Filene Jan 23

  California credit union pledges $25,000 annually to become think tank's first Silver Benefactor.

• Summit Credit Union's Program Aims to Pump Up Women Jan 23

  Summit Credit Union wants women to realize stepping into their first million can be a reality –all it takes is Red SHOES.

• Feeling Stuck? 3 Ways to Get Moving Jan 22

  Do you feel like you have stalled or reached your limit? Here are three ways to break through and get things moving onward and upward.

• The Catch-22 of Being a Female Boss Jan 22

  The careers for most women follow an expected trajectory: We begin in our 20s, surrounded by young colleagues of both sexes; move into our 30s, when some of us leave entirely or shift to reduced hours to raise families; then throttle on through our 40s, the decade of major career...

• Six Paradoxes Women Leaders Face in 2013 Jan 9

  Easing into the New Year, one big hope we have for 2013 is that women continue to bridge the gender gap in terms of pay equality and access to leadership positions.

• Ten Resolutions The Most Successful People Make and Then Keep Jan 7

  This time of year is a great time to start making—and keeping—business resolutions, too.

• You Don't Have to Be a Start-Up to Be Like One: 5 Ways Jan 7

  You can maintain your entrepreneurial culture--long after you raise funding, and start making money. Here's how.

• Society and Credit Unions Have Come a Long Way, Baby Dec 12

  In the early 1970s, a large group of women across the country who were tired of the double-standards of lending practices and discriminatory financial laws decided to take matter into their own hands.

• Kate Middleton, Marissa Mayer And The Most Fascinating Women of 2012 Dec 5

  There’s no denying that 2012 has been a big year for women. We won the election, we made millions and we stood up to Rush Limbaugh.

• 6 Simple Rituals To Reach Your Potential Every Day Dec 5

  Becoming and staying productive isn't about hard-to-follow programs or logging your every move in an app. It's about self-care. Here are daily to-dos to get you started.

• Influence: How Women Can Redefine Success Oct 16

  I have thought a sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good women. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

• Raymond James Reps Reflect on Women and the Industry Oct 12

  Boosting the number and role of women is an objective of Raymond James and other wealth managers. How do you make that happen?

• Women to Watch 2012: An In-Depth Look at the Industry Supporters Oct 1

  An in-depth look - complete with videos - at the Women to Watch selected for their support of the credit union industry.

• Best Apps for Busy Women Sep 21

  Need more hours in the day to get everything done? There's an app for that...

• Baby Boomers Spending More on Education, Children Sep 20

  Savings not going as much retirement in the 45- to 64-year-old set.

• 7 Ways Kate White Teases Out Bold, Brilliant Ideas Sep 19

  Kate White, author of "I Shouldn't Be Telling You This" and outgoing editor-in-chief of Cosmopolitan, shares her tricks for turning fleeting thoughts into fearless, game-changing ideas.

• What Are You Doing on 12/12/12? Mark Your Calendar to Help Women on Boards Sep 19

  According to August 2012 statistics from Catalyst, the percentage of board seats at Fortune 500 Companies held by women is only 16.1 percent in the United States. Among the organizations working to change this is 2020 Women on Boards (WOB), which has set a goal of increasing the percentage of...

• Gap Between Seniority, Leadership Closing Sep 18

  Although most respondents say working for younger bosses not challenging, there are differences in work styles, communication, expectations.

• Middle Class Families Experience $10,500 Drop in Assets: Report Sep 18

  Report from Consumer Federation of America and Primerica finds drop since 2007 in large part from falling housing prices.

• The Top 15 States for Female Entrepreneurs Sep 18

  The Huffington Post has narrowed down the Top 15 States for female entrepreneurs.

• Women May Still Want It All: Family, Career, Home Sep 17

  For some women, pursuing the American Dream still includes having children, a career and a home, new survey from TD Bank says.

• How to Run Your Meetings Like Apple and Google Sep 17

  Careers have been built on poking fun at meetings. From commercials to comic strips it's no secret that most of us would rather be, you know, working.