Why Do This?

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Canvas Credit Union, the 4th largest credit union in the great state of Colorado, recently changed their name and their brand, from Public Service Credit Union, to improve their image after years of poor press, lawsuits, scandals reported by the media, and an employee turnover rate that can be described as alarming at best.

Inside sources report that in March of 2018, Canvas Credit Union CEO, Todd Marksberry, broke his promise to a valued VP - a proven strategist with a Master’s Degree and documented years of experience successfully building company brands, and instead of promoting him to Chief as promised, he instead hired Tansley Stearns. This is notable because Tansley, who is at least 20 years younger, has no education or experience to justify her title. What happened next took everyone at corporate by surprise; in only five months, Tansley Stearns was appointed ALSO as the Chief People Officer resulting in her manning the helm of the Human Resources department. This unexpected and unprecedented promotion (one person holds two Chief positions within 5 months of being hired) started a buzz among the employees at the corporate office. Everyone was wondering how someone with no human resource education, training, or experience, could become the chief of a department that is heavily regulated by state and federal law and requires specialized education, training, and experience? Unfortunately, Tansley quickly showed that she was in over her head with her additional position and the employees of Canvas soon began to suffer as a result.

Since Tansley’s appointment as the Chief People Officer no fewer than 20 highly respected, experienced, and valued "family members", working directly or indirectly for Tansley have been terminated, forced to resign, or pushed to the brink with a hostile work environment, and chose to quit. Inside sources report that Tansley’s strategy is to replace the former employee with a younger, inexperienced millennial, who is either personal friends of Tansley, the children of Todd himself, or of other credit union execs, as personal favors. It certainly raises an eyebrow that a twenty-something is hired as a Marketing Operations Manager and within a year is promoted to the Director of Marketing in the corporate suite when their claim to fame is bragging about eating mac-and-cheese from a box and binge watching The Bachelor, or being born with name Marksberry and, with only having graduated from college 4 years ago and with 2 years of working with video on your LinkedIn profile, is sufficient experience to be promoted to the Department Head of Video and Photography of a company with 2.5 billion dollars in assets. It is also reported by inside sources that executives are violating the no fraternizing rule and rampant sexual harassment and misconduct exists. In one instance the female employee who was in the subordinate executive position was fired, while the male executive is free to engage in the behavior again without consequence. In another reported instance, the female Manager was having a sexual relationship with a male subordinate, and she was promoted to Director instead of being fired. Sources report that friends in “high places” within the C-Suite at Canvas will quietly cover up the misconduct to the benefit of the perpetrator.

This site is a whistle-blowing haven dedicated not only to those "family members" who had their careers blighted by Tansley Stearns, under Todd Marksberry's watch, but also for Canvas members who have a story to tell about being mistreated by Canvas Credit Union. Canvas publicly presents itself as a "family", and leader in the community, but in reality, it is only a marketing ploy. Sources report that unless you are lucky to be born with the name Marksberry, or are the child of a close Marksberry or Stearns friend, you are expendable; Canvas is just like every other big corporation managed by ego-driven and ill-trained executives whose primary objective is to add to their own resumes with no regard for whom they must trample upon to achieve their goal.

If you are a former or current employee or member of Canvas Credit Union with a story to tell, this site is a safe place where you can tell your story anonymously.