NEXT STEP: Emerging Leaders Summit is designed to help cultivate, connect, engage and empower South Dakota’s future bank leaders. The SDBA will hold the 2021 NEXT STEP: Emerging Leaders Summit on Oct. 26-27 at the Hilton Garden Inn Sioux Falls Downtown in Sioux Falls.

This event will encourage emerging bank leaders to find and express their voices within their organizations, communities and the banking industry and provide opportunities to network and exchange ideas with other industry professionals. It will also increase emerging bank leaders’ knowledge of topics of interest to the banking industry and promote involvement and advocacy. 

Wednesday's sessions include: The Challenge of Leadership, Having Tough Conversations in the Workplace, Buzz Sessions—Speed Networking, What Not to Say: Six Categories of Statements to Stop Saying, Lessons in Leadership, Extra Credit: Banking in the Time of COVID-19, Self-Management vs. Crisis Management and Ignite Sessions. A reception will be Tuesday evening at Hotel on Phillips in Sioux Falls. 

See the full agenda and register.