“Education is really the most powerful thing behind change.” - Joanne Todd

Thank you for tuning in to episode 85 of The CUInsight Experience podcast with your host, Randy Smith, co-founder of CUInsight.com. This episode is brought to you by our friends at PSCU. As the nation's premier payments CUSO, PSCU proudly supports the success of more than 1,500 credit unions.

Credit union leaders can learn a lot about navigating difficulty from the amazing work being done at the international level for our movement. On this week’s episode, I’m sitting down with Joanne Todd, President and CEO of the Northeast Family Federal Credit Union in Connecticut, to learn more about the importance of development work and how it has benefitted her credit union and the community they serve.

During the episode, Joanne tells us about her time working with credit unions and nonprofits in Trinidad and Tobago, Uzbekistan, Kenya, and more. We also talk about how those experiences helped to inform the work she and her team are doing to ensure their small credit union survives and thrives in this new “normal”. We also learn about the work her credit union is doing to deepen their outreach efforts to underserved communities. 

Joanne and I also talk about how she got her start in credit unions at a very young age. Joanne shares what inspired her to take the position at Northeast Family Federal Credit Union, how she learned to make hard decisions, and why it’s important to have the courage to change the things that need to be changed. We also learn that Joanne loves to travel and go to flea markets when she has a day off and wants to recharge.

In the rapid-fire section of the show, we find out that Joanne wanted to be an engineer before she began her career with credit unions. She shares that she got into memorable trouble in high school by skipping school with her then boyfriend, now husband. She also shares that her mother and grandmother are the two people she thinks of when she hears the word success. I thoroughly enjoyed this conversation with Joanne! 

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How to find Joanne:
Joanne Todd, President and CEO of Northeast Family Credit Union
[email protected]
www.nefamily.coop
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