CUES Learning Portal supports professional development for just about everyone at your credit union. You’ll find business topics applicable to staff, managers and executives, plus governance-specific courses for your board members.
We’ve gathered and cultivated Learning Journeys exclusively for CUES members, where you’ll find an umbrella of courses focused on one business topic. You can also access our exclusive Harvard ManageMentor collection, courses in CUES Director Education Center, and CUES Governance+ content.
CUES members—you’ll find access to all things CUES Learning Portal on myCUES Dashboard. Take a look today, and self-enroll in your first course!
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Attendees of our specialized offerings, such as CUES Emerge, CUES School of Business Lending, and Leadership Skills Collection, will also find all their online learning right in CUES Learning Portal, making access simple.
With more than 30 years of financial services experience, Mark Sievewright has worked directly with numerous credit unions in the successful formulation and execution of their business strategies and plans. Mark is the recipient of a number of industry awards and is a recognized industry thought-leader. Mark has led strategic consulting engagements for credit unions ranging from $250M to $53 Billion in assets. Also, he has supported a number of credit unions on their merger-related strategies and related actions, including pre-merger planning and post-merger integration support.
During his career, Mark has held senior leadership positions at HSBC, MasterCard International (where he led the firm’s marketing and commercial services division in Europe, Middle East and Africa), Payment Systems Inc. (where he served as CEO), TowerGroup (now part of Gartner Group, where he served as CEO) and Fiserv (where he served as vice chairman and president of the company’s Credit Union Solutions division with more than 2,000 staff serving 2,600 credit unions).
In April 2017, Mark established Sievewright & Associates which is uniquely focused on providing credit unions with valuable strategic business insights and trusted technology guidance to drive their business growth and member experience initiatives, both effectively and efficiently. In September, 2022, Sievewright & Associates was acquired by Strategic Resource Management (SRM) and now operates as an SRM company.
Nithya B. Das serves as the Chief Legal Officer and Chief Administrative Officer for Diligent. Nithya is responsible for leading Diligent’s global legal team and the Diligent Institute, the modern governance think tank and global research arm of Diligent Corporation.
Nithya also serves as a member of the board of directors and the compensation committee at Outbrain Inc. (Nasdaq: OB), a leading technology platform that drives business results by engaging people across the open internet.
Nithya was previously the chief operating and chief legal officer and corporate secretary at Olo (NYSE: OLO), an enterprise SaaS platform for restaurants, where she led the company through an IPO and transformation to a multi-product platform company. She served as the company’s founding general counsel and also oversaw its people and culture, strategy and operations, corporate development, partner ecosystem, and shared technology teams. Prior to Olo, Nithya served as chief legal and people officer at AppNexus, an enterprise advertising technology platform, where she led the company from start-up to global enterprise platform including leading its IPO process and ultimate acquisition by AT&T. Nithya previously served as an attorney at Goodwin Procter LLP in the technology companies practice and was a founding contributor of Founder’s Workbench, the first online legal resource for the startup community.
Nithya is a recipient of the National Organization for Women’s Women of Power and Influence Award, the American Bar Association’s Legal Rebel recognition, and a passionate advocate for women in leadership, DEIB, and ESG. Additionally, Nithya was a founding member and former Executive Board member of TechGC.
Nithya holds a degree in Business Administration from the SC Honors College at USC and a J.D., cum laude, from Brooklyn Law School. She lives in Hoboken, NJ with her husband, two daughters, and her labradoodle.
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Allan Filipowicz is clinical professor of management and organizations at the Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management at Cornell University. Filipowicz's research focuses on how emotions drive or impede leadership effectiveness at both the intrapersonal and interpersonal levels. Within this domain, he studies the relationship between emotions and risky decision making; the influence of humor on both leadership and negotiation effectiveness; the impact of emotional transitions in negotiations; and the relationship between genes, chronotype (morningness–eveningness), and performance.
His work has been published in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Journal of Behavioral Decision Making, Journal of Operations Management, International Journal of Forecasting, Creativity Research Journal, Journal of Circadian Rhythms, and Scientific Reports.
Filipowicz teaches Managing and Leading Organizations (recently winning a Best Core Faculty Award), Negotiations, Executive Leadership and Development, Leading Teams, and Critical and Strategic Thinking. He has taught executives across the globe, from Singapore to Europe to the United States, with recent clients including Medtronic, Bayer, Google, Pernod Ricard, and Harley-Davidson.
Filipowicz received his PhD from Harvard University. He holds an MBA from The Wharton School, an MA in international affairs from the University of Pennsylvania, and degrees in electrical engineering (MEng, BS) and economics (BA) from Cornell University. His professional experience includes banking (Bankers Trust, New York) and consulting, including running his own boutique consulting firm and four years with The Boston Consulting Group in Paris.
