Coro’s Blog: On Purpose

The Bold Approach Of Transformational Companies

Published on March 2, 2016

At age 27, I was the youngest director elected to Vancity Credit Union, the largest community-based credit union in the world. It was the late 1980s. I ran a seniors’ agency, was chair of a provincial social planning group and had been a recent board member of the local United Way. In two and a half words, I was a “social do-gooder.”

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