Category: Initiatives

Last August, MDC hosted our first-ever digital owner meeting, and while we were confident we could deliver a positive experience to our owners in the age of social distancing, we were still blown away by the overwhelmingly positive feedback from our attendees! Thank you again to our owners for making…

MDC’s NextUP program is the credit union industry’s preeminent innovation training and development opportunity, bringing together our owners’ best movers-and-shakers and brightest up-and-comers. While participating in NextUP, our owners’ representatives work from July through February, including four days of in-person training and working sessions. During these eight months, participants receive…

A Guest Blog from the Financial Health Network The resounding narrative with Baby Boomers—those born between 1946 and 1964—and other pre-retirees often starts and stops with the impending retirement savings crisis. Indeed, it is dire: with minimal savings and assets to fund their retirement, most pre-retirees are ill-prepared to enter…

Vinod Tharakan is the founder and director of ClaySys Technologies, a technology consulting firm with more than 230 employees specializing in automation solutions. Claysys is working closely with MDC and a number of our credit unions in the automation space with a focus on using robotic process automation to automate…

How VyStar Credit Union is helping to ensure the financial success of today’s youth. VyStar Credit Union is an MDC owner headquartered in Jacksonville, Florida. Their innovative approach to teaching financial literacy to the youth in their community aligns with MDC’s own mission to improve the financial well-being of members…

Alain Hunkins is a lifelong student of human behavior and performance. As a Senior Facilitator at FutureThink, Alain coaches CEOs, executives, managers, and front-line employees and has facilitated for over 1,000 groups worldwide. Alain has led innovation training sessions at various MDC owner meetings and facilitated ideation for MDC’s NextUP…

Our 2019 Summer Owner Meeting, held from August 5-7 in the beautiful Ritz-Carlton Hotel in Chicago, broke yet another owner attendance record, with over 200 owners joining us for the industry’s best networking and learning event! Highlights of the event included: updates from MDC Owners on how they have been…

Sarah Lietz is MDC’s Vice President of Owner Engagement. She recently attended an MDC-Exclusive IFTF Foresight Practitioner School and is sharing her thoughts below. Any useful statement about the future should at first seem ridiculous. Jim Dator – Professor, and Director of the Hawaii Research Center for Futures Studies, Department…

We are so excited to be so near our next owner meeting, which is just a few weeks away on August 5-7 in Chicago! Our owners continue to say that MDC owner meetings are the best events in the industry, full of amazing opportunities for networking, learning, and fun. Our…

MDC has long sought to increase our owners’ ability to innovate from within, and we’ve delivered on that goal through our NextUP program; exclusive training opportunities at our owner meetings; and right-sized, tailored innovation training programs with our partners at futurethink, an industry-leading innovation consultant. We’re now broadening and deepening…