A private community of 8,000+ SDR leaders. Curated events in your city, member-led masterclasses every two weeks, and the honest conversations you can't have anywhere else.
SDR Leaders of USA exists so the people building the modern outbound function have somewhere serious to compare notes. Members-only. Peer-led. No vendors on stage. Everything we publish, host and debate is aimed at one thing: making the SDR org a better place to work and a better lever for the business.
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Curated dinners, summits and salons where SDR leaders swap what's actually working right now.
Every two weeks. Always member-led. No vendor pitches, no theory, just applied playbooks.
A private Slack-style space to ask the questions you can't ask internally.
Insights and research pieces that give members the latest data on what they need to grow their SDR functions.
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The state of SDR Leaders of USA today.
The State of Sales Development 2026 is SDR Leaders Global's benchmark of how sales development teams are actually run. 574 SDR leaders across North America, EMEA, APAC and the UK took part between August 26 and September 20, 2026, covering headcount, org design, attainment, pipeline share, tenure, compensation, tooling and AI. The headline: the SDR function is growing (net +30, positive in every region), it hits plan more often than the sales teams it feeds (82% vs 76.5% attainment), and budget and org charts explain little of its performance. What does show up is how the function is run: enablement, activity load, coverage and work environment. Those matter most for tenure, and most SDRs leave at about the point they would be promoted. Use it to benchmark your team against your region, build the case for enablement, and bring real numbers into your next budget conversation. Sponsored by memoryBlue.
Most of prospecting is grunt work: research, list building, first drafts. An AI sidekick takes that off your reps so they spend their time on the valuable slice. This playbook explains, in plain English, the difference between a prompt, a Project and an Agent, then walks through a five-step build path that needs no technical skills. It shows what a working sidekick does day to day, how to roll it out so people actually use it, the guardrails that keep it safe, how to use it to coach, and a week-by-week plan for your first 30 days. Ships with the Excel Build and Rollout Kit. Based on the SDR Leaders of USA session with Joseph Shy of Synthesia, hosted by David Wilkins.
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