How to apply for the Most Powerful Women in Credit Unions 2023 (DEADLINE PASSED)

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American Banker's Most Powerful Women in Credit Unions celebrates the senior executives guiding the future of the credit union industry, while also examining issues of mentorship and inclusion.

This award, now in its second year, is meant to recognize the achievements of these women and promote discussion of topics that are important to the advancement of the next generation of leaders. 

Click here to see last year's Most Powerful Women in Credit Unions. Past honorees are welcome to apply again.

Eligibility

Applicants must be employed by a credit union. Women primarily employed at any type of trade association, regulatory agency or law, accounting or other professional services firm are not eligible for this program. Eligibility is not restricted by geography.

Applications are read by a selection committee made up of American Banker staff members. Judges will consider qualities such as leadership, teamwork and personal initiative, demonstrated through action.

Deadline

Individual applications must be submitted by the deadline of Thursday, October 12, at 11:59 p.m. ET to be considered.

Important instructions:

Please do not hit the "submit" button at the end until the application is fully completed. 

Please note that we are not accepting printed nomination forms. Only submissions collected through the online system will be considered.

Partially completed forms may be saved in the system until ready to be submitted. You will be given the option to have an email sent to you with the link. The email you receive in this case will come from noreply@formstack.com. 

Every time you save the application to return later, a new link will be generated. If you accidentally use an old link, you will not return to your most-updated version of the application, but to a previous version instead.

You will also need to provide a high-resolution color photo of the nominee, to be used for publication.

Once you hit submit, you will not be able to access your application again.

Begin the individual application for the 2023 Most Powerful Women in Credit Unions

Application preview:

Before clicking above, make sure you have:

  • Nominee's name, date of birth, title, employer, email address, phone number, X/Twitter handle (if applicable)
  • A high-res color photo of the nominee
  • Employer's website, X/Twitter handle, asset size
  • An alternate contact (executive assistant, media relations, etc.) with email and phone number

Additionally:

  • Tell us a bit about the nominee and her current job
  • Time employed by current employer, time in current role, time in the credit union industry
  • Person to whom nominee reports
  • Number of direct reports nominee has
  • Nominee's education

We ask that the nominee answer these four questions, with the answers intended to be excerpted for publication (min. 400 words each):

  • What is a project that challenged you in the past year, and how did you address the challenge?
  • How would you recommend getting younger and/or more diverse people in leadership positions at credit unions?
  • What lessons did you take from the banking crisis earlier this year? How did it affect your approach to the market?
  • What else would you like us to know about you?

Additionally, we ask that the nominee choose two of the following four questions to answer, with the answers intended to be excerpted for publication (min. 400 words each):

  • Outside of your job, in what other ways do you contribute to your community?
  • How has climate change — and increased incidents of flooding, wildfires and other natural disasters — changed the way your credit union works with its community?
  • What economic forces are most pressing as you prepare for the year ahead? How do you plan to confront them?
  • How does your credit union plan to implement emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence?
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