Fireside Chats Revisited - Mark Your Calendar! - Well Maybe Not ...

Although "the current/former" CEO has his bags packed, nothing else much has changed at the "new/new" SECU. Best indication?   

  The new "We Are SECU On The Road" dog and pony show.

 First meeting: ✅ July 12 in Greensboro from 4 to 6 at the Proximity Hotel on 704 Green Valley Rd  (😎 See you there?)

         

The "current/future" CEO has announced a series of "smaller venue" meetings with "selected" Member Advisory Boards to talk about the "SECU Strategic Plan". The "We Are SECU On The Road" meetings appear to be nothing more than the same old same old. A better title for the tour might have been a Yogi Berra take off: "Fireside Chats: Deja Vu All Over Again"! 

✅ 4 concerns about the "We Are SECU On The Road" tour : https://secuvote.ey.com/

1. This Board and "current/future" management continue to refuse to openly address the SECU membership. Why the fear?
   
2.  Smaller venues, invitation only meetings - while apparently even trying to exclude some of the more rambunctious advisory boards! -  smacks of contrived "message management" and brightly spotlights the absence of transparency at SECU. Why the fear?
   
3. The proposed agenda for the meetings shows a 2 hour meeting with 15 minutes for Q & A? Is that really enough time to discuss current concerns about SECU? (Answering "The $6.5 million question"  alone will take longer than that!) Is this a "talk at" or a "listen to" meeting?
   
4. The re-regurgitating of a fluffy Strategic Plan which appears generated by an ancient AIChatbot (some of that vintage pre-1983 tech!)? Reality check: No one reads Strategic Plans, most are pretty vacuous, pure pablum (SECU's is "industry standard"!), no one takes them seriously. See #3 above! 

 

✅ But the real core, insult to the entire SECU membership of the "We Are SECU On The Road" tour is to be found in that title. This Board and the "current/future" still are tone deaf to the fact that - "they" ain't "We" at the credit union.  

At SECU, the 2.7 million members are the "We"!  https://secuvote.ey.com/

✅ Clearly with "new/new", the self-importance and hubris continue unabated, just...

            "Deja new/new all over again!" https://secuvote.ey.com/

👉 Here are the dates and locations of the other "We Are SECU On The Road" meetings to which  99.99% of the 2.7 million SECU members - and probably little ole you! - will not be invited to attend. Why the fear? https://secuvote.ey.com/

✅ July 13 RTP from 4 to 6 at the Sheraton Hotel 4700 Emperor Blvd

✅ July 18 - Wilmington - Aloft Hotel Wilmington at Coastline Center 501 Nutt St Wilmington

✅ July19 - Greenville - Greenville NC Convention Center - The Emerald Room 303 Greenville Blvd SW

✅ August 16 - Charlotte - The Ballantyne Hotel 10000 Ballantyne Commons Pkwy

✅ August 17 - Asheville - The Omni Grove Park Inn

 

 

  Gonna be kind of ironic if tomorrow's meeting in Greensboro at the Proximity Hotel is held in the ....