CUNA Governmental Affairs Conference

Astyra CEO Ken Ampy in the CUNA campaign

Our CEO, Ken Ampy attended the Credit Union National Association’s Governmental Affairs Conference (CUNA GAC) in Washington D.C. earlier this week. Board members throughout the nation come to this event to expand their knowledge and discuss current events in the credit union community.

The CUNA GAC also provides attendees the chance to hear from representatives and leaders to reiterate why credit unions are necessary, what challenges they face and how to overcome them.

The event offers different campaigns participants can engage in. Ken was involved in the “Open Your Eyes to a Credit Union” campaign: an effort to raise awareness among the public on the benefits of banking with a credit union.

The CUNA GAC was a great success with over 5,000 attendees which is the biggest turnout to date!

Carmen’s Latest Achievement of 2018

Our Recruiting Team Lead, Carmen earned her Toastmasters certificate!
 
Toastmasters is a worldwide non-profit organization that helps individuals to expand upon their public speaking and leadership skills.
 
Carmen completed the first level of her Leadership Development Path to becoming an effective communicator and leader earlier this month. During this process, she gave five speeches on time management and plan development and implementation. She emphasized the importance of public speaking and leading a team in each of her five speeches.
 
Back in April, Carmen won the “Best Speaker” award for one of her previous speeches.
 
Congrats Carmen!

Victor Offers Career Advice

Victor

The Urban League of Greater Richmond Young Professionals (ULGRYP) and Thursday Network (TN) partnered together to host a panel discussion on career advancement and invited our Technical Recruiter, Victor to speak!

Victor has been a member of the ULGRYP for several years now and was honored to be chosen as a guest speaker.

This discussion was held in September at the Second Annual Maudine Cooper Leadership Retreat. Both organizations strive to develop young black professionals’ leadership skills.
 
Victor said he enjoyed speaking to the young professionals as well as attending the insightful informational sessions.

Developing Astyra Leaders

Our Human Resources Manager, Brittany, attended a Leadership Transitioning Seminar by Fred Pryor Seminars.
 
The seminar focused on giving tips to those moving into higher leadership roles within their company. Brittany was able to expand her knowledge on how to effectively communicate and delegate tasks.
 

She also brought back some of the exercises from the seminar which have already positively impacted our office environment!

These exercises have allowed us to become more conscious of the type of communicators we are. We are able to better communicate to each other through this understanding. We learned that while some people in the office prefer specific information and rules, others work better when given fewer details.
 
We hope to continue learning more about how to effectively work together and communicate to one another.