When Metrum Community Credit Union’s new president and CEO, Brandt Peterson, retired early, he had a sneaking suspicion that it might not last. “I said I would give myself one year because I know how antsy I am,” he said. “I got nine months in and said ‘I’m never going to make it.’”
Peterson kept his word and made it exactly one year. The next day, he updated his resume and was on the phone with an executive job coach to re-hone his interviewing skills. Peterson had run out of home improvement projects, and grown restless even when participating in his favorite hobbies. “I like the outdoors, I like to fly fish, hike, ski, but there’s got to be more to life than that,” he said.
His impending reintroduction to the working world, and especially credit unions, where he has spent his entire career, became much more real when Peterson saw a posting for the job at MCCU. Former president and CEO Steve Kelly was a friend and Peterson even attended Kelly’s retirement party. He’d always revered Metrum from afar and was impressed by Kelly’s ability to bring the credit union from near-insolvency in the early 90s to a thriving organization just a few years later.Read More >