CUNA Consumer Lending eSchool: Foundations
Instructors

Instructors

  Woody Hodgdon, CUCE

Woody is a CUCE and is the national compliance manager for Addison Avenue Federal Credit Union (formerly HP Employees FCU) in Palo Alto, California. Addison Avenue FCU serves Hewlett Packard and Agilent Technologies employees in the United States and Puerto Rico as well as some other related employers. Prior to accepting his current job, Woody spent 17 years at HP Rocky Mountain Federal Credit Union in Loveland, Colorado where his jobs included managing both the collections and compliance departments. He spent three years as an agent for CUNA Mutual in northern Colorado prior to starting his management career with credit unions.

  Rick Menton

Rick is the president of Menton Consulting, Inc., Tulsa, Oklahoma. He focuses on providing credit unions with strategic management and planning facilitation, project management assistance, sales training, executive recruitment, and seminar and workshop presentations. Prior to forming Menton Consulting, Inc., he spent 23 years with the Minnesota and Oklahoma Credit Union Leagues in senior management positions. Additionally, he has worked as a marketing executive, lender, and in collections for credit unions and consumer finance companies.

  Angela Prestil

Angela is director of sales culture development for the Creating Member Loyalty™ System of Training at the Credit Union National Association (CUNA). Her responsibilities include ensuring the successful implementation of the Creating Member Loyalty™ program for more than 200 credit unions nationwide, as well as managing the development and design of the Creating Member Loyalty™ System of Training.

Angela brings more than 20 years of experience developing and delivering educational programs and products to CUNA. Her expertise lies in marketing, sales, innovation, and train-the-trainer programs and products, as well as in customer relationship development. She joined CUNA in February of 2000. Since coming to CUNA, Angela has conducted training around the country at League meetings, CUNA schools, and CUNA webinars.

  Rory Rowland

Rory Rowland leads training on lending, technology, leadership, and communications skills. After serving as president of two credit unions and earning his CCUE, Rory began using his background in credit unions to help others in the movement be more effective. Rory has presented his high energy, fun, and humorous training in all 50 states over the past eight years.

  Harry Strausser, III

Harry is president of the Remit Corporation and Interact Training and Development where he oversees the operation of a full-service collection agency and coordinates the training programs of its educational subsidiary. Harry is active in both the Pennsylvania Collectors Association and ACA International in which he is a certified instructor. He has instructed more than 150 seminars for the ACA. At the 1993 International Conference in San Antonio, he was named "instructor of the year" for that organization and is a member of the International Fellowship of Certified Collection Executives. In January 1998 he was the recipient of the Kurt Swersky Innovative Leadership Award at the Leadership Forum of the American Collectors Association held at Snowmass, CO. He was a founding board member of the Northeast Pennsylvania Chapter of the International Credit Association. He currently serves on the ACA International Executive Committee as Treasurer.