​Essential to Employers: Building Stronger Credit Professionals, Connections & Careers

​Featuring Steve Shivak, NACM National
Thursday, November 12, 2026 | 1:00 PM CT
Hosted by the Handle.com BuildingBlocks Community

​What makes a credit professional truly essential to their employer?

​It goes beyond managing receivables, making credit decisions, or protecting cash flow. Today’s strongest credit professionals are continually building their knowledge, expanding their network, sharing their expertise, and developing the relationships and resources they can turn to when challenges arise.

​Join Steve Shivak with NACM National and Lori J. Drake, CBA, with Handle’s BuildingBlocks Community for a conversation about what it means to become Essential to Employers, and the role professional communities like NACM and BuildingBlocks can play in helping credit professionals grow their value, influence, and impact.

​Rather than a traditional presentation, this session will bring NACM and BuildingBlocks together for an open conversation around three important ways industry communities can help professionals succeed:

• ​Build Better Decision Makers: Connect professionals with the education, tools, resources, and training they need to make smarter decisions and bring greater value back to their organizations.

• ​Build Your "Kitchen Cabinet": Develop a trusted network of peers, mentors, and industry experts you can turn to for perspective, answers, advice, and real-world experience when challenges arise.

• ​Turn Experience Into Influence: Create opportunities to share knowledge and give back through webinars, online communities, white papers, podcasts, speaking opportunities, mentorship, and industry leadership.

​Why Attend?

​Whether you're just beginning your career or have decades of experience, professional growth doesn't happen in isolation.

​The people you know, the resources you can access, the experiences you share, and the communities you participate in can directly impact the value you bring to your employer, and the opportunities available throughout your career.

​Steve and Lori will share perspectives from NACM National and the BuildingBlocks Community, discuss where their missions intersect, and explore how credit professionals can take advantage of the resources and relationships already available to them.

​Expect a candid, energetic conversation about education, connection, mentorship, leadership, influence, and becoming a professional your organization simply cannot do without.

​Who Should Attend?

​Credit managers, credit analysts, accounts receivable and collections professionals, finance leaders, and anyone looking to strengthen their professional network, expand their industry knowledge, and increase the value they bring to their organization.

​This webinar is FREE to attend.

​Join us November 12th and discover how connecting, learning, contributing, and sharing can help make you truly Essential to Employers.

​Learn. Connect. Share. Become Essential.