Recipients of the CUNA ELLy Awards, honoring top training professionals at credit unions, were announced at CUNA Experience Learning Live! conference held Oct. 3-5 in San Diego.

These awards recognize and honor credit union staff who develop innovative and unique initiatives to drive progress in the credit union movement.

“We’d like to congratulate this year’s outstanding award winners for their achievements despite the challenge of training in this labor market after the pandemic,” said Aubrey Ward, manager of online educational projects at CUNA. “Thank you to all the credit union professionals who nominated their peers and joined us to recognize them this fall.”

The CUNA ELLy award winners were as follows:

WOW Award

• Blue Federal Credit Union, Cheyenne, Wyo.
• Sun Federal Credit Union, Toledo, Ohio
• Michigan State University FCU, East Lansing, Mich.

eLearning Award

• UNIFY Financial Credit Union, Allen, Texas.
• Advantis Credit Union, Portland, Ore.
• Sun Federal Credit Union, Toledo, Ohio

Training Professional of the Year Award

• Learning and Development Team, Michigan State University FCU, East Lansing, Mich.
• Organizational Development Team, FORUM Credit Union, Fishers, Ind.
• Lucy Burmeister, Gerber Federal Credit Union, Fremont, Mich.

Save the date for next year’s conference and ELLy Awards on October 16-18, 2023. For more information, please visit www.cuna.org/ell to fill out a request to be notified.