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Neil Hoyne

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Chief Strategist
Google

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Samantha Radocchia

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Futurist – Anthropologist – Entrepreneur
Radical Next

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Ian Beacraft

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CEO and Chief Futurist

Signal and Cipher

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Sean Watson

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SVP of Special Projects
Trend Hunter

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Lisa Bodell

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CEO

FutureThink

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Jessica Archer

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Vice President

Paterson Center

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Jamie Harrison

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Chief Growth Officer
Meritrust Credit Union

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Vincent Hui

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Managing Director

Cornerstone Advisors

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Alex Johnson

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Business Consultant

MDC

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Jeff Kline

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President & CEO

MDC

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Kris Kovacs

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CEO

Constellation Digital Partners

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Sarah Lietz

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Chief Experience Officer

MDC

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Jeff Meshey

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President & CEO

Desert Financial Credit Union

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Michelle Mozzar

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AVP / Head of Strategic Execution Office

MDC

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James Nastars

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President & CEO,
MDC Board Vice Chair
Meritrust Credit Union

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Stacey Pearson

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Partner

Paterson Center

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Colleen Murray Peyton

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Sr. Facilitator & Learning Consultant
FutureThink

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Kurt Schroeder

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CXO

RemarkableMX

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MDC

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Steve Williams

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President and Partner

Cornerstone Advisors

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T.J. Wyman

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Chief Digital Officer

Coastal Credit Union

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Neil Hoyne

Chief Strategist

Google

SPEAKER'S BIO

Neil Hoyne is the Chief Strategist at Google and the best-selling author of “Converted: The Data-Driven Way to Win Customers’ Hearts.” Mr. Hoyne was a Senior Fellow at the Wharton School and presently serves on the Board of Trustees for Purdue University Global. He has received multiple patents for his work in marketing attribution and customer analytics, has been published in notable outlets such as Harvard Business Review, and has keynoted hundreds of events in more than two dozen countries.

After earning degrees from Purdue University and UCLA, Hoyne returned to academia in 2018 as a Senior Fellow at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. He is a board member on the Purdue University Global Board of Trustees, and serves as an advisor to private equity and investment funds, including CapitalG: Alphabet’s independent growth fund, which has helped to scale companies like Airbnb, Stripe, Duolingo, and more.

Sam Rad

Futurist – Anthropologist – Entrepreneur

Radical Next

SPEAKER'S BIO

Sam Rad combines the mindsets of an anthropologist and technologist, bringing her “radical next” perspectives on what’s in store for the future.

With the charisma of a rockstar, the curiosity of an anthropologist, creativity of an entrepreneur, and the calm confidence of an ex-professional skydiver, Sam effortlessly guides organizations and individuals to thrive in times of radical and accelerating change.

Through her signature candid and clever delivery, Sam distills complex topics while leading the audience on a compelling, informative, and approachable journey of educational storytelling.

Ian Beacraft

CEO and Chief Futurist
Signal and Cipher

SPEAKER'S BIO

Considered one of the top voices in AI and the future of work,, Ian Beacraft is a trusted advisor to the world’s most innovative companies. The founder and chief futurist of Signal and Cipher, Ian leads a strategic foresight agency that guides brands through the rapidly changing technology landscape and finds meaningful routes to innovation that impact the bottom line, inspire cultural change, and create new products and services.

Previously responsible for P&L’s and innovation departments at the largest agencies in the world, Ian is known for making bleeding-edge technology understandable and monetizable even when best practices are scarce. Brands he has advised over the last decade include CapitalOne, CIT, Samsung, Intel, Coca-Cola, Google, and Microsoft.

Sean Watson

SVP of Special Projects
Trend Hunter

SPEAKER'S BIO

Known as a tech enthusiast with a thirst for new information, Sean brings an enthusiasm to Trend Hunter’s content that is unmatched. After amassing an extensive background at companies like Rogers, Bertelsmann, and American Express, Sean joined Trend Hunter in 2015. He has since interviewed over 200 leaders in insight, innovation, and strategy to uncover best practices and approaches to facilitating innovation. Additionally, he has spoken at conferences like TMRE and Future Festival on topics such as technology, entertainment, media, and consumer behavior.

Lisa Bodell

CEO

FutureThink

SPEAKER'S BIO

FutureThink CEO Lisa Bodell ranks among the Top 50 Speakers Worldwide and is the best-selling author of Kill the Company and Why Simple Wins. She’s a global leader on simplification, productivity, and innovation, whose keynotes leave audiences inspired to change and arm them with radically simple tools to get to the work that matters.

Bodell brings a compelling perspective to the sought-after topics of simplification and innovation to over 100,000 people each year. A thought leader and serial entrepreneur, her transformational message has inspired executives at top-ranked organizations such as Google, Cisco, Citigroup, and the U.S. Navy War College.

Based on her best-selling books, Kill the Company and Why Simple Wins, Lisa provides a provocative yet practical approach that enables organizations and individuals to eradicate the unnecessary complexity and time-sucks that hold them back from more meaningful work, and allow simplicity to become their new operating system.

Bodell has contributed her expertise to a wide variety of media. She is a monthly contributor to Forbes and has frequently appeared in other media including: Fast Company, WIRED, The New York Times, Inc., Bloomberg Businessweek, Harvard Business Review, The Huffington Post, FOX News, and CNN. She has also been featured in many major books such as Warren Berger’s A More Beautiful Question, Adam Grant’s Originals, and After Shock, the upcoming 50-year celebration based on futurist Alvin Toffler’s Future Shock.

Bodell has taught innovation at both American University and Fordham University and has a TED talk on the topic. She has served on the board of advisors of several organizations, including the Global Agenda Council for the World Economic Forum, the United States National Security Agency, the Association of Professional Futurists, and the Novartis board of Diversity & Inclusion.

Jessica Archer

Vice President

Paterson Center

SPEAKER'S BIO

Jessica is a seasoned leader of the full spectrum of strategic planning, from facilitating the creation of the plan all the way through to deploying and monitoring strategic results that stick. Her specialty is inspiring transformational change and designing processes that take strategy out of a binder and into the operations of the business and the hearts of its employees.

Jessica’s professional experience includes:

  • 12 years of facilitation experience, including tenure as a licensed Paterson StratOp® Guide, facilitating strategic clarity and installing strategy management processes for clients ranging from start-ups to Fortune 50 giants
  • 8 years experience as the in-house accountable party for Global Strategic Planning and Integrated Business Planning processes for a multi-million dollar consumer products company
  • Designing and improving cross-functional business processes as a Lean Six Sigma Black Belt in industries ranging from grocery, to consumer packaged goods, to proteomics
  • Change Management leadership, training, and speaking, supported by a Prosci Change Management Certification and a Masters Degree in Communication

Jessica is a proud Midwesterner at heart (and still regularly uses the phrase “Uff-da”), but now happily resides in Timnath, CO, with her husband and three children who collectively serve as a foster family to babies, teenagers, and every age and stage in between.

Jamie Harrison

Chief Growth Officer

Meritrust Credit Union

SPEAKER'S BIO

As Meritrust’s Chief Growth Officer, Ms. Harrison drives sustainable growth by aligning strategy, innovation, and collaboration across the organization. In her current role, she leads new customer acquisition and deposit growth strategies, market expansion strategies, marketing/communication and brand equity initiatives, customer loyalty and experience programs, community partnership/engagement efforts, and governmental affairs. She has been with Meritrust since 2005 and in the credit union and banking industries for more than 25 years.

Ms. Harrison earned a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science from Wichita State University and her MBA from Newman University, and she is Design-Thinking certified from MIT and Stanford University. She also completed CUES CEO Institute 1 from Wharton School of Business and CEO Institute 2 from SC Johnson College at Cornell University.

Ms. Harrison’s leadership has been recognized in the community and the industry with the following honors:

  • 2012 Wichita Business Journal’s 40 under 40 Class
  • 2015 AMA Marketer of the Year Award
  • 2017 Wichita Business Journal Women in Business
  • 2018 Leadership Kansas Class
  • 2019 Wichita Business Journal Women Who Lead – Financial Services
  • 2019 CUNA’s Credit Union Rock Star for Innovation and Creativity
  • 2022 Wichita Business Journal’s Hall of Fame – 40 Under 40
  • 2023 Wichita Business Journal’s Hall of Fame – Women in Business

Within the local community, she serves on the WSU Barton School Marketing Advisory Board, Widener Global Leaders Program Board, the Wichita Chamber Board, the Greater Wichita Partnership Strategy Team, and as a mentor for several community groups.

Ms. Harrison is passionate about her family – 4 kids and 3 grandbabies, helping others live their best lives, problem-solving for business and innovation, traveling, English bulldogs and trees – all the trees.

Vincent Hui

Managing Director

Cornerstone Advisors

SPEAKER'S BIO

Vincent Hui brings to Cornerstone Advisors nearly 25 years of experience in the financial services industry, where he has served as both a senior executive and an advisor to large and mid-size financial institutions.

Backed by a unique blend of strategy, operational and financial skills, Vincent leads the planning and delivery of large-scale change initiatives, linking strategic goals and priorities to operational initiatives and execution and ultimately to financial performance.

Vincent’s areas of expertise include merger and acquisition opportunity assessment and integration, strategic planning, operating model design including operational and process improvement, and system conversions.

Before joining Cornerstone, Vincent was a chief operating officer at Capital G Bank in Hamilton, Bermuda, where he was responsible for branches, deposit operations, call centers, e-banking, card services, and product management. He led several enterprise-wide initiatives in business continuity, strategic and business planning, policy and procedure development, M&A integration, and core system conversion. Before Capital G, Vincent was a senior executive at Washington Mutual/Chase, leading M&A activities and enterprise-wide operating model change initiatives. He also served as an executive in Accenture’s financial services practice, and he began his career in finance with MacAndrews & Forbes and Ernst & Whinney.

Vincent is a graduate of New York University and received a master of business administration degree from the University of California at Berkeley. He is a Certified Public Accountant.

Alex Johnson

Business Consultant

Members Development Company

SPEAKER'S BIO

“I love credit unions and their dedication to members and communities. Having the opportunity to work for an organization that supports credit unions and their ability to serve well into the future is so meaningful. I’m energized by thoughtful conversation and can’t wait to share these with our credit union owners.”

Alex joined MDC in the Strategic Execution Office in April 2023 and has a decade of experience in the financial services industry with a background in marketing, community relations, and member experience. She’s experienced in driving process improvements and managing a wide variety of projects that support overarching business objectives. Alex is a proud Boise State University graduate with a BBA in Marketing – Go Broncos!

Jeff Kline

President & CEO

Members Development Company

SPEAKER'S BIO

Jeff Kline has been the President/CEO of MDC since 2007 and has been in the credit union industry for more than 30 years.

Jeff started his career as a CPA at KPMG Peat Marwick and then went to work for a client, US Central Credit Union. He has worked at several other credit unions as an EVP of Finance and Technology, an EVP of Retail and Strategy, and as a CEO.

Kris Kovacs

CEO

Constellation Digital Partners

SPEAKER'S BIO

Kris Kovacs is the President and CEO of Constellation Digital Partners in Raleigh, NC. He led the largest single round capital raise in credit union history. The $32.5M capital raise was the foundation for launching Constellation Digital Partners. As the CEO, Kris is leading the company as they create a revolutionary open development platform for secure financial services. Their patented platform represents a disruptive business model that challenges decades of legacy business practices and promises industry changing advancements in online and mobile banking.

Prior to this role, Kris spent 25 years with some of the largest and most technologically advanced credit unions in the country with C-level roles in Operations and Technology. He is also a Certified Innovation Executive (CIE).

Sarah Lietz

CXO

Members Development Company

SPEAKER'S BIO

Sarah Lietz is the Chief Experience Officer for MDC. She is responsible for several strategic initiatives, MDC’s SEO and Events teams, and several numerous R&D projects.

She joined MDC in 2005 after serving for two years as a corporate project manager for CUNA Mutual Group (now TruStage). Prior to working with CMG, she spent eight years in product development in the telecom industry, focused primarily on introducing new Internet-related products to the marketplace. She has also held positions with the Chicago office of KPMG Peat Marwick, a global consulting and accounting firm.

Sarah volunteered on the board of directors of Firefly Credit Union in Minneapolis/St. Paul for nine years, including four as Board Chair. Sarah earned her MBA from the University of Wisconsin–Madison and a BS from Illinois State University.

Jeff Meshey

President & CEO

Desert Financial Credit Union

SPEAKER'S BIO

Jeff Meshey is the President and CEO of Desert Financial Credit Union, where he has dedicated his talents and leadership for over 28 years. He is a certified public accountant and launched his career with Ernst & Young, specializing in audits of financial institutions. His tenured career at commercial banks, savings banks, and credit unions was solid preparation to lead an $8 billion organization that’s built a culture of performance and philanthropy. Alongside his role at Desert Financial, Jeff serves as a Board Member of MDC and as currently the Nominating Committee Chairman. His commitment to service is evidenced by his involvement in various organizations. He sits on the Board of the Valley of the Sun United Way, where he chairs the Tocqueville and Major Gifts Committee, demonstrating his passion for philanthropy and social impact. Additionally, Jeff contributes his expertise to the Arizona Educational Foundation as an Advisory Board member and serves as Chair of the American Heart Association’s HeartWalk Committee. His dedication to the community is further exemplified by his status as a Life Member of the Fiesta Bowl Committee. Jeff was honored as a Most Admired Leader by the Phoenix Business Journal in 2019. Outside of his professional endeavors, Jeff finds joy in exploring the world through travel, trying to perfect his golf swing, cheering on the Arizona State Sun Devils, and immersing himself in the activities of his children and grandchildren.

Michelle Mozzar

AVP / Head of Strategic Execution Office

Members Development Company

SPEAKER'S BIO

Michelle is the AVP, Head of Strategic Execution Office at Members Development Company. In her current role, she is responsible for leading project strategy and delivering innovative research and solutions to MDC owners. Prior to joining MDC, Michelle served as Vice President for Treasury Implementations at Wells Fargo. She has worked in financial services for over 20 years in multiple leadership capacities, including strategic planning, project management, leadership development, training, and operations.

She holds a doctoral degree in interdisciplinary leadership from Creighton University.

James Nastars

President & CEO,
MDC Board Vice Chair

Meritrust Credit Union

SPEAKER'S BIO

Meritrust has been a member of MDC since 2014 and has seen the power of active collaboration with leaders in the credit union industry. MDC helps us honor our mission and remain relevant to our members and our community. James has been President/CEO of Meritrust since 2013 and has over 30 years’ experience in financial services. James is committed to both the credit union industry and the greater Wichita community. Within the credit union industry, he serves on the Boards of MDC and CUNextGen. In the community, James serves on the Boards of Kansas Big Brothers/Big Sisters, Greater Wichita Partnership, Wichita State University Barton School of Business Dean’s Advisory Board, Wichita State University Foundation & Alumni Engagement National Advisory Board, and the Kansas State University Institute for Personal Financial Planning. He has a Bachelor of Business Administration in Finance and an MBA from The University of Texas at Austin. James and his wife, Cynthia, enjoy traveling and spending time with their four children.

Stacey Pearson

Partner

Paterson Center

SPEAKER'S BIO

Stacey is a business strategist and a movement creator. Her mission is to partner with growing organizations to create clarity of vision and mission, align on the top strategic priorities, and accelerate forward on a unified plan. 

Leveraging 25 years of leadership experience and the Paterson StratOp® and LifePlan® Processes, she has been instrumental in driving strategic growth for multiple businesses, non profits, government entities, and higher education organizations. She served as the Director of Strategic Operations Planning at OtterBox through a time of exponential growth and transformation, leading the strategy creation, deployment, and performance management. Specializing in scaling organizations through transformational change, Stacey prioritizes caring for people and culture to foster effective leadership.

Today, Stacey is Partner and Chief of Client Services at the Paterson Center, enhancing client excellence and leading strategic partnerships in the anti-human trafficking arena. She lives with her husband, Aaron, and two daughters in Timnath, CO.

Colleen Murray Peyton

Sr. Facilitator
& Learning Consultant

FutureThink

SPEAKER'S BIO

Colleen is what you get when you combine a rainbow and a lightning rod. Her warm demeanor and high-energy approach makes skill building easy, engaging and full of A-HA! moments that you didn’t expect but always enjoy and remember. Clients such as NBCU, Novartis, and Vontier are huge fans of her skill building capabilities and facilitation style. 

With deep expertise in creative thinking, leadership training, and storytelling, Colleen inspires FutureThink’s clients to immediately embrace change and reach their potential.

Colleen has designed and facilitated high-energy, humor-filled training programs for global corporations for over a decade. Combining her sales experience in commercial real estate with her experience performing improv and sketch comedy at The Second City, iO Chicago, and The Annoyance Theater in Chicago, Colleen delights in the alchemy of creativity and business. She received her BS in Marketing and Merchandising from the University of Missouri, Columbia.

She’ll never forget your name and leave you in the dust on Trivia Night—especially if game shows from the ’80s are a category. She lives in Los Angeles with her film-editor husband and magical child, always in pursuit of mastering the art of backyard-to-table cuisine and desserts that light on fire.

Kurt Schroeder

CXO

RemarkableMX

Project Lead

MDC

SPEAKER'S BIO

Kurt Schroeder is the Chief Member Experience Advisor at Remarkable MX, a Member Experience advisory firm helping credit unions thrive in the experience economy. Prior to starting Remarkable MX, Kurt retired as the Chief Experience Officer at Avtex which helped organizations win through designing more meaningful experiences in every customer interaction.

With over 35 years of experience, Schroeder has a background helping diverse industries, including agriculture, manufacturing, health care, financial services, distribution, insurance, consumer packaged goods, and non-profits. He leverages this experience while helping organizations turn insight into experiences that drive growth and pioneering new methodologies and approaches in customer experience to improve how companies innovate new and better customer experiences.

Known for his outstanding organizational and consulting skills, Schroeder has a thorough knowledge of customer experience, customer loyalty, market research, go-to-market strategy, digital and social experience, sales effectiveness, and experience innovation. He has been recently quoted in The New York Times, Forbes, and CMSWire. He also speaks nationally on various customer experience topics at conferences and corporate events.

Steve Williams

President and Partner

Cornerstone Advisors

SPEAKER'S BIO

As a co-founder of Cornerstone Advisors, Steve Williams serves as President and Partner with Cornerstone where he leads firm growth and thought leadership efforts while remaining actively involved with major clients in the areas of strategy, technology, and performance improvement.​

Steve has assisted hundreds of banks and credit unions in their efforts to become highly efficient, top-performing financial institutions. An experienced private banker with a commercial and consumer credit background, Steve’s more than 25 years of experience in the financial services and consulting industries have provided him with a deep working knowledge of bank operations and delivery systems, particularly in lending processes. He is an experienced facilitator for management retreats and board planning sessions and is in great demand as a speaker at industry conferences and seminars. ​

Steve is among the authors of The Cornerstone Performance Report, an annual benchmarking study for mid-size banks and credit unions. He writes regularly for GonzoBanker, Cornerstone’s blog, and has been published in numerous industry periodicals, including American Banker, Bank Director, BAI Banking Strategies, and CU Management. ​

Steve serves as a faculty member at the American Bankers Association Stonier Graduate School of Banking and the Management Institute of the Credit Union Executives Society. He taught at the National School of Banking and the CUES School of Product and Channel Management.​

Steve holds a master’s degree in finance, summa cum laude, from Arizona State University, Tempe, Ariz., and a bachelor’s degree in business journalism from Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, Ariz.​

T.J. Wyman

Chief Digital Officer

Coastal Credit Union

SPEAKER'S BIO

T.J. Wyman currently serves as Chief Digital Officer for Coastal Credit Union located in Raleigh, NC. He has over 25 years of financial institution experience ranging from Retail, eCommerce, Lending, Insurance, Investment, Trust and IT. Prior to his current role, Wyman served as Coastal’ s Chief Retail Officer where he was responsible for Coastal’ s new branch strategy, traditional teller branch transformation to PTM Technology, online account opening, Mortgage lending, ATM servicing and Coastal’ s real estate agency. He has also served as Vice President of Information Technology, Vice President of Coastal Federal Financial Group, LLC and as Coastal’ s Vice President of Insurance, Investment and Trust group. Beyond Coastal, Wyman is a Credit Union Development Educator, currently serves as a Board of directors to First Tee-Triangle, Board Chair of Coastal Federal Financial Group and has served on numerous advisor committees in credit union industry organizations.