Sitting down with "acting CEO" George and Patsy, I learned a lot about how Filene performed over the past fiscal year and our plans for forging ahead over the coming year. George has a new (temporary) role and is getting the most out if it, and Patsy is enjoying the beautiful Wisconsin summer. Grab as seat, and let us fill you in since we last talked.

We sat down with Filene's Incubator Director, Adam Lee, to learn more about the research and work being done to forge a path forward through the power of credit unions to financially empower all members of our communities. Adam touches on the regulations coming from the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, the opportunities that credit unions have today to better help their most financially fragile members and the role and impact credit unions play in our larger socio-economic state.

Join the conversation with Cooperative Trust Manager James Marshall as we talk origins of the Crasher movement, recent adventures, future opportunities to get involved and exciting exciting exciting (fingers crossed!)things to come for The Cooperative Trust. Also, lets all wish our British friend James a happy 4th of July! Visit filene.org to keep on track of upcoming Crash events that YOU can apply for!

Strategy is alive! Rather than a 1-2 day activity producing a 100-page report that few will read, an organization's strategy should be an active part of who they are all year round. With that in mind, Filene's Strategy Cycle helps credit unions do just that...keeping board meetings and senior leadership meetings at a high strategic level instead of talking about the color of the carpet in the new branch. Listen in as Chief Impact Officer Tansley Stearns explains how Filene's work can benefit your credit union.

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Research Manager Stephanie Galligan joins us on the podcast to explain the first research report ever released as part of our new Centers of Excellence. In this report, Designing Credit Union Culture for High Performance, Stephanie hits on the key elements that make an organization's culture what it is, shares an example of a successful high performing organization driven by its culture and gives credit unions the take-aways for gaining stronger culture.

Episode 2 of the Filene Fill-In podcast has us chatting with the fine Filene felines (aka cool cats) Marnie, Andrew and George about credit union innovators, ideas that bubble to the top, and the 2025 vision of the financial services industry. While we mainly stay on topic, deviations into exotic plants, chewbacca socks and 80s music hits may occur...

Here we are, the first episode EVER of the Filene Fill-In: The podcast where we fill you in on what's been going on at Filene and out and about in the financial services world. In this show we're joined by the genius George Hofheimer, the beautiful Ben Rogers and the Amazing Andrew Downin. We talk Australia and pork dumplings, Scotland and haggis and Washington D.C. and the Donald (Trump AND Duck)! See where the conversation takes us...

The Filene Fill In -- A Podcast where we fill you in on what's been going on at Filene Research Institute. This is our just for fun test episode featuring Chief Knowledge Officer George Hofheimer and CEO Mark Meyer