CU Strategic Planning
Vanessa Henry is an accomplished marketing and communications professional with extensive experience in strategic planning and design. Since July 2021, Vanessa Henry has served as Vice President of Marketing and Strategic Communications at CU Strategic Planning, where previous roles included AVP and Director of Marketing and Communications. With a background in freelance graphic design, Vanessa Henry operated Vanessa Henry Graphic Design from 2010 to July 2021. Previous positions include Communications Designer at the Washington Credit Union League, Graphic Designer at Colographics/Christian and Associates Advertising, Web Designer at IBM, and Graphic Designer at Citysearch. Vanessa Henry holds a degree from The Evergreen State College, earned between 1990 and 1994.
CU Strategic Planning
CU Strategic Planning is the top-performing consulting firm working with credit unions in the field of community development. Collectively, its staff has over 300 years of experience. Through collaboration with its clients, the firm has authored and implemented more than 330 award-winning applications for CDFI credit unions resulting in $800,000,000 in US Treasury CDFI Awards. As part of its community development consulting, CU Strategic Planning unlocks opportunities for credit unions to change their communities by strategically managing credit unions' transition to the community development business model. This includes DEI strategy, executive recruiting, product and policy enhancement to increase the yield on assets and impacts to the community, and developing pipelines of loans from new community partners.