WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. — It's usually a good news story when a female CEO scores a business coup and the $220 million Piedmont Aviation Credit Union here is finding out this week how true that is with the CU's president, Judy Tharp, making the cover of a local women's magazine.
"We've been just astounded at the reception we've been getting to the magazine story having had to re-order three times to keep our branches stocked with copies of the publication," said Kim Thore, Piedmont director of marketing.
So far 1,200 copies of the monthly magazine, "Forsyth Woman" have been handed out with phones in Tharp's office "ringing off the hook" congraulating the CU's first female CEO on the writeup which traces her CU career moves landing at the Winston-Salem CU two years ago.
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The cover article in the June issue is titled ,"One Woman's Leadership Journey" and quotes Tharp on how she managed to land her first CU job at age 22 at a small Wilmington CU just three years out of college. Later she joined CUNA Mutual and eventually was hired by Piedmont.
In the article, Tharp credits "an introspective" attitude and a reliance on role models for women to move ahead quickly in the business world.
Thore said she managed to get Tharp's story told through contacts she had at the popular magazine which has a circulation of 50,000 and readership in the Triad area of North Carolina covering Greensboro, Winston Salem and High Point.
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