TULSA-Angela West, vice president and president-elect next of SIOR, manages and oversees the regional directors, which oversee the chapter presidents of the organization. We had an interview with West last week, who is also a vice president with CBRE in its Tulsa office. This time, we spoke with her about the importance of next week's SIOR convention and how the organization has helped her out.

GlobeSt.com: What has SIOR meant to you and what do you think is its importance to its membership?

Angela West: SIOR is the place that I go to grow and learn new and different things that I can't find in my local market. Its importance is creating a peer group that is collaborative and open to sharing best practices and transactions. It's also a go-to place for referring businesses outside my market in transacting. One of the things that differentiates SIOR are our ethics policies and our procedures that create a safety net relief for anybody working outside their own market with brokers they don't know. The SIOR ethics process has a layer of protection when you're transacting outside your own market.