Using data visualization tools to activate your credit union’s data is a critical skill to support the decisions made by you and your team. Join us for a 2-hour workshop where you will learn how to manipulate credit union data and use visualizations to better understand the types of analyses that can be useful for answering business questions. 
This module will introduce basic principles for data literacy and data visualization, followed by an in-depth demonstration on how to use business questions to interrogate data for insights. 

At this Stay & Play, you will learn:

• Basic principles for data literacy and data visualization.
• How to interrogate and manipulate data as a first step for practicing data-driven decision making.
• How to build data analytics readiness and adoption at your organization.

Showers for All provides something very simple that most of us take for granted each day, a shower and clean set of clothes. Access to these daily tasks provides more than just hygiene, it creates the opportunity to boost confidence and restore dignity. Jennifer Kloeppel, Founder of Showers for All, will share how the non-profit focuses on the topics of employee culture and relationship-building as a key part of their organizational strategy and mission to provide dignity and hygiene for Denver's homeless population.

On this day-away, you will learn:

• How employee culture plays a key role in building and maintaining relationships with your members.
• How a small act of kindness can create a ripple of impact within your community.
• How to get started to address the needs of your own communities.

For a truly immersive experience, look no further than Meow Wolf. From the beginning in 2008, Meow Wolf's mission to inspire creativity through art, exploration and play in order for imagination to transform our world is evident from the moment you set foot on one of their 3 permanent installations. Join us for this experiential journey to witness the art of collaboration and community impact for hundreds of artists from underrepresented local and international communities who come together to create a captivating story.

On this day-away, you will learn:

• The power of collaboration that took a cadre of broke creatives into a 400-employee strong organization in just two years.
• How to reframe opportunities when the best path forward isn't the easiest option on the table.

Credit union leaders are invited to join experts from leading universities in this closed door session on board governance.

During this session you will join other CEOs and our academic experts to discuss:

• Lifting board leadership with insights into best-in-class practices and approaches.
• Insights into meeting structures, board recruitment, and the emerging push to pay.
• Focus on how to ensure BODs are focused on strategy not tactics.
• Cultivating a culture of alignment and supportive board engagement.
• Impacts of tech/disintermediation to CU governance.
• Are we measuring what matters – shift to outcomes and impact.

The Colorado School of Mines is the most prestigious university you've never heard of! Founded in 1874, Mines is dedicated to education in science, engineering, and technology and is one of the smallest top-tier research universities in the world. For over a century, Mines has been innovating how to teach innovation through real-world problem-solving.

On this day-away, you will learn:

• Lessons from faculty and students in the Engineering, Design, and Society program, Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation, and Mines Venture Center. 
• How to cultivate a culture of innovation and maintain an expansive vision of what's possible, even in highly competitive and regulated industries, such as mining or banking.

Please Note:

• This day away has an extended end time of 4:30 p.m. MDT.

Craft beer has long been compared to credit unions, both existing in the shadows of the macro players in their highly regulated industries and both filling a need for a consumer segment seeking more from the businesses they choose.

There are many lessons that credit unions can adapt and apply right now from craft beer’s successful advancements in inclusion, innovation and collaboration.

How have they done it, and more importantly, what does that taste like? This day-away experience will answer both as we visit the craft breweries who’ve centered inclusion, innovation and collaboration in their business strategies all while growing market share without sacrificing a drop of flavor.

Please Note:

• Attendees must be 21+ to join us on this Day Away.
• This Day Away has an extended end time of 4:30 p.m. MDT.