KNOXVILLE, TENN.— Last week, over 80 credit union young professionals from across Tennessee gathered in Knoxville for the inaugural Tennessee Mic (TNMIC) Conference.
The two-day conference featured sessions on leadership development, personal branding, industry trends and also included a panel of young professionals sharing knowledge of the numerous educational opportunities that are available to the group such as SRCUS, Crash the GAC and many more.
Matt Monge, a nationally-recognized leadership, culture and future of work expert, served as the conference keynote. Monge, who started his career as a high school teacher and coach before transitioning to the corporate world, focused his message on the ways for young professionals to make their organization a better place to work—ultimately empowering them to become “more fully human.”
“Cultivating and retaining new talent to be the next leaders of the credit union movement is extremely important. Working with some of the brightest minds and future leaders in the state collaboratively, we developed TNMIC,” said Fred Robinson, president/CEO of the Tennessee Credit Union League. “TNMIC is Tennessee’s Young Professional Group of tomorrow’s credit union leaders. Their first annual meeting was an overwhelming success and the enthusiasm for credit unions was electrifying. I believe the future of credit unions in Tennessee will be in good hands.”