EQ for What’s Next:
Elevating Your Leadership and Influence
In advertising and marketing, success takes more than great ideas, it takes the ability to influence, connect, adapt, and lead under pressure. This interactive session explores how emotional intelligence can elevate your leadership by strengthening self-awareness, resilience, empathy, and communication. Participants will gain practical tools to navigate pressure, build stronger relationships, and use feedback to inspire growth and performance now and in future leadership roles.
Elevate self-awareness and leadership presence
Stay steady under pressure and respond with intention
Lead with empathy and strengthen connections
Use feedback to influence growth and performance
Date: Oct. 13, 2026
Time: 11:30 AM – 1:00 PM
Location: DoubleTree by Hilton Rapid City Downtown Convention Center • Get Directions
Meet Your Speaker
As Director of Leadership and Talent Development at Sagency, Jackie Payne partners with businesses and organizations to help them achieve their goals, strengthen their cultures, and drive transformational growth by unlocking the potential of their greatest asset: their people.With over 25 years of experience working alongside leaders and teams, Jackie brings a unique blend of energy, empathy, and strategic insight with a natural ability to add fun to the process.Before joining Sagency, Jackie served as an Enterprise Client Partner at FranklinCovey, where she worked with organizations nationwide to create lasting change through proven leadership and behavior strategies.Jackie is deeply committed to her family, faith, and community. She and her husband, Tory, are proud parents of four active boys. Outside of work, Jackie is an enthusiastic civic volunteer, contributing her time and leadership to causes and organizations that bring joy and purpose to her life in Sioux Falls and the surrounding region.
AAF Black Hills Programs are proudly sponsored by Black Hills Energy