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Published: January 28, 2021

2021 Leadership Summit To Be Held at UT on Feb. 10

The University of Tampa Sykes College of Business will host its 2021 Leadership Summit on Feb. 10. The free event will be held online via Zoom, and a link will be provided upon registration.

Sykes College of Business building
The free event will be held online via Zoom, and a link will be provided upon registration.

The summit, titled “Developing Your SPARK As a Leader,” will feature Simon T. Bailey as the keynote speaker. Bailey is a breakthrough strategist, life coach and the author of Be the Spark: Five Platinum Service Principles for Creating Customers for Life.

The summit will also include a panel discussion with Bailey, Mary Pat King, CEO of Girl Scouts of West Central Florida, and Brian Butler, a retired U.S. Army officer and president and CEO of Vistra Communications.

The virtual event will begin at 8 a.m. with a presentation by Bailey. It will continue with a leadership panel discussion at 9 a.m. At 10:45 a.m., there will be separate Zoom sessions where topic discussions about the talk will take place.

Registration is required. RSVP here by Feb. 9. The event is sponsored by TECO Tampa Electric and TECO Peoples Gas.

For more information, please contact Deirdre Dixon, associate director of the TECO Energy Center for Leadership, at ddixon@ut.edu.


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