BURLINGTON, Mass. -- EasCorp will be encouraging credit unionsto get smart at its partnership conference and 30th annualmeeting.

This year's conference on April 24 will feature Jason Jenningsas the keynote speaker, who will discuss developing and usingbusiness smarts by sharing the five leadership secrets of theworld's most productive companies.

Jennings, author of books on corporate excellence, founded andled a number of successful businesses over 20 years. He and hisresearch team also spent 18 months crisscrossing the globe to getat the heart of the fastest growing companies. They studied morethan 40,000 businesses and identified the 10 most productive in theworld.