Taking calls from Southwestern alumni is one of my favorite responsibilities as the Southwestern Company Alumni Specialist. (weird title – I know) Almost five years into my role working with Southwestern alumni I have heard a ton of great bookfield stories, can list Southwestern sales managers back into the 1960′s, know almost all of Southwestern’s [...]
Earlier this week, we conducted our first webinar for Southwestern Company alumni. We received great response from our alumni. I enjoyed hearing from alumni excited to hear Dan Moore’s pearls of wisdom on Southwestern success principles. Three minutes before the webinar started, I was taken back to my first day on the bookfield. Despite having trained [...]
Happy July, everyone — time for some great news from Southwestern, and to say thank you to everyone. We are all so busy in our day-to-day tasks, yet it is important to take a moment to pause and re-acknowledge the truly great thing that is happening all across America and Canada this summer. It is one [...]
Most Thursdays during Southwestern’s sales school weeks I have the privilege of taking photos at Southwestern’s President’s Club dinner. The students who earn the right to attend the dinner have met either the sales or the recruiting requirements and are the top of the top of Southwestern students. On their last night of sales [...]
One of the challenges that I encountered when recruiting college students for the Southwestern Company summer program, was conveying to a non-business major how sales experience would benefit them. Most of us quickly learn once we leave academia that everything is some form of sales. That statement has been validated every time I talk to a [...]
In my years with the Southwestern Company I have heard, as well as told, many tales of some of the famous alumni that have traversed the bookfield. After becoming Southwestern’s alumni specialist, I quickly learned that this is an often requested list of people. Unfortunately, my database of alumni did not come with a “Rich and [...]
