Here are some insights from, and stories about, the Cetera Services team:
I love hearing stories from business stewards, whether they’re founders or those entrusted to carry a legacy business forward. I attend these anniversary events to hear the heartwarming speeches, the fun anecdotes and the odd “did you knows” that leaders reveal in these moments of celebration.
Kumba’s 1993 launch marked a fun and pivotal moment in my journalism career — my first first-person newspaper story about the day I caught Kramer’s hat.
The spectacular images captured by the Artemis II astronauts during their historic moon-bound voyage remind me of a vital lesson about the importance of changing perspective.
As our firm turns 10, founder Angela Lammers reflects on her first Cetera Services business trip.
When Cetera Services moved into its downtown office atop the historic Falls Center in April 2024, we loved looking out our arched window for a peek at bands warming up on the Levitt stage or construction crews completing work on The Steel District. The constant bustle of activity has been incredible for the growing uptown…
We’re excited to return from New York City after helping the American Society of Journalists and Authors put on a wildly successful annual conference, ASJA Always in Fashion 2025, at the Fashion Institute of Technology (FIT) in midtown Manhattan. Our team traveled to the Big Apple for this great event to work with ASJA volunteers…
I wrote a story for the American Society of Association Executives on media pitching, and my excitement for the upcoming baseball season prompted me to theme it around our national pastime. Check out How to Toss a Fastball When Pitching to the Media for ASAE’s national publication Associations Now. It’s been a pleasure working with…
Cetera Services is starting the year with excitement by officially welcoming a new member to the Cetera Services team. Jennifer Sanderson Hyk, Senior Communication Specialist, will provide comprehensive communication and organizational support for our company’s clients. She brings nearly 30 years of writing, marketing, and process-development experience to this new role.
We’re super proud of our summer intern, Elisha Ngatchou, for her excellent work on designing the logo for our client’s 2025 conference in midtown Manhattan: “Always in Fashion NYC 2025.” Read the American Society of Journalists and Authors’ Q&A with Elisha here.
Dirk Lammers is being recognized by ASAE (the American Society of Association Executives) for earning the Certified Association Executive (CAE) designation. The CAE is the highest professional credential in the association industry.
The American Society of Association Executives (ASAE) has announced that Angela Lammers, Managing Partner of Cetera Services LLC in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, has earned the Certified Association Executive (CAE) designation.
The not-exactly-as-planned Zip Feed Mill demolition 15 years ago provides some insight into Sioux Falls’ history and future.
On Thursday evening we celebrated the thoughtful and talented graduates of Class 34 and noted that the program this year reached the important milestone of its 1,000th graduate.
Cetera Services Managing Partner Angela Lammers is featured as a communication subject matter expert in the July/August edition of PE Magazine, the flagship publication of the National Society of Professional Engineers. In the article written by Banner Associates Inc. Human Resources Director Sarah Meusburger, SPHR, SHRM-SCP, Angela shares four of the most impactful ways to…
Cetera Services Managing Partner Angela Lammers is featured as the Associations North “Spotlight: Member in Motion” in the May-June 2020 edition of Focus North magazine.
Cetera Services Partner and Chief Communications Officer Dirk Lammers appeared on national baseball expert Mark Simon’s influential Sports Info Solutions Baseball Podcast to chat about no-hitters and the role of defense, umpires and other things.
I was working in the Sioux Falls bureau of Associated Press on May 24, 2006, when I took an early-afternoon call from an editor in our Washington, D.C. bureau. “We’re running a national story about school bus pollution,” the editor said, “and we need a photo of a school bus.”
Recently, I was gifted with the presence of one of my nieces and my nephew for an overnight visit to my home in Sioux Falls. It was a last-minute request from my brother on a night when the children had no school and I had no shortage of project work.
The term “crisis management” carries a reactive aura, but companies and organizations that best respond to unexpected emergencies are ones that anticipate some form of the unexpected.
The other day, as I was researching some 1920s Newspapers.com clippings for an upcoming book I’m writing, I decided to take a break and dig up some of the first stories I penned for daily newspapers in the early 1990s.
I’m not a fan of the term “content.” It’s cold and sterile and seemingly sucks the life out of any collection of words and sentences. Let’s drop the phrase “creating content” and replace it with “crafting stories.”
if you can’t definitively and specifically answer the question of “Why?” you need a website, then it’s probably to take a step back and think about strategy.
Charettes are engaging sessions in which all participants in a project work together to create a vision and collaborate on a path forward. They’re the most humane, beautiful, inspiring communication opportunities I’ve had occasion to witness.
It’s a time of anniversary reflection for me in so many ways. This week, I celebrate another year of marriage to my husband. In one more week, I celebrate my second full year in business. And now, at the start of year three, my partner in life has become my partner in business.
