Speaking Event
Glatt Consulting founder Tom Glatt will serve as MC at the National Director's Roundtable Conference in Las Vegas. He will also lead a pre-conference workshop on governance systems and present on the psychology of risk.
Leadership
The decision to hike to Everest Base Camp is driven by deeply rooted psychological DNA. Glatt Consulting's founder shares his personal Risk Type Compass data and the reality of the Himalayas.
CU HealthScore
The Q1 2026 CU HealthScore data reveals a complex tale of two balance sheets. While capital reserves remain strong, credit unions face structural headwinds in loan volume and membership growth.
Governance
The NCUA encourages credit union employees to use its Fraud Hotline. Discover why relying on an external regulator is a governance failure, and how boards must own their internal whistleblower architecture.
Leadership
A credit union’s balance sheet is a psychological artifact. To know if your CEO is ready for the next credit cycle, boards must look beyond past financial metrics and evaluate their risk disposition and emotional intelligence.
Conference Recap
We wrapped up Day 1 of the CU Educational Cruise. Discover why static strategy is dead, how your board's risk bias drives decisions, and why "Radical Localism" is the future of the branch.
Strategy
Economic indicators show growth, but members feel stress. This is the K-Shaped economy. Relying on "average" data creates a dangerous blind spot that masks the distress of your most vulnerable members.
Performance
The credit union industry is safer than ever, but it is slowly shrinking. Our Q3 2025 HealthScore analysis reveals the "Fortress Trap" and the urgent need to pivot from accumulation to deployment.
Strategy
The 'old playbook' for CU strategy is failing. At the 2025 Reaching Your Members conference, Tom Glatt shared a 3-part framework for moving from a static plan to a truly resilient model.
Governance
The NCUA recently announced a significant shift in its supervisory framework: it will cease using "reputation risk" as a formal category in examinations. Citing the subjective nature of the assessment, the agency aims to ground its oversight in more data-driven conclusions. While this change streamlines the examination
Strategy
At CU Conferences’ 2025 National Director’s Roundtable, I had the pleasure of presenting a framework for building a more resilient strategy. The core idea is that in today's unpredictable world, the old playbook for strategic planning is no longer sufficient. The old playbook, a rigid process of
Governance
In the summer of 1975, a Great White shark terrorized the community of Amity Island, forcing Police Chief Martin Brody to famously conclude, "You're gonna need a bigger boat." That line became an emblem of being dangerously underequipped for a known threat. For today's