The Center for Sales Strategy Recognizes the 2024 Talent Superhero Award Recipients
(January 09, 2025) — The Center for Sales Strategy (CSS), specializing in transforming sales organizations, announces the recognition of the 2024 Talent Superhero winners – managers who are recognized for recruiting, selecting, developing, and engaging top performers on their teams and in their markets every day.
This prestigious annual award acknowledges senior-level leaders and managers who oversee all things talent-related on their teams and in their territories as well as HR professionals who impact talent across an organization. Winners are selected by a committee that reviews skills and success of each nominee based on building and maintaining a strong talent bank, recruiting top talent to the organization, coaching people to maximize their strengths, engaging their team, and retaining top performers over time.
"We are thrilled to recognize these outstanding leaders who have cracked the code for people development," said Beth Sunshine, Senior Vice President of Talent Services at The Center for Sales Strategy. "We celebrate their achievements and look forward to the continued growth and success they will inspire."
The 2024 Talent Superheroes are:
Beth Nifong – Director of Sales, Bonneville International, San Francisco, CA
Inger Alfred – Director of Sales, Lands' End
Jeremy Ginn – Station Director, Cox Media Group, Athens, GA
Lina Cravotto – Director of Sales, Cox Media Group, Tulsa, OK
Nick Maine – Chief Revenue Officer, Galaxy Media Partners
Patrick Fuentes – Vice President In-Market Sales, McClatchy
Rob Razzi, – Vice President Sales, Clear Channel Outdoor, Philadelphia, PA
Scott Burton – Vice President Sales, Cox Media, Louisiana
Stephanie Slagle – Vice President and Chief Innovation Officer, Graham Media Group
Susan Holshouser – Branch President, Clear Channel Outdoor, Tampa, FL
Terri Cope-Walton – Vice President and General Manager, Graham Media Group, Jacksonville, FL
Traci Thomson – Senior Vice President, Human Resources, Lencore Acoustics
About The Center for the Sales Strategy Founded in 1983, The Center for Sales Strategy(CSS) has grown to serve hundreds of clients annuallyacross a spectrum of industries, including broadcast, print, and digital media, professional services, non-profit associations, and more. For over 40 years, CSS has focused on improving sales performance as it helps sales organizations turn talent into performance and develop the highest-performing sales professionals. Its approach to customer-focused selling and talent-focused management has always been, and continues to be, core to its clients' success and the organization's success. CSS is joined by LeadG2, its B2B marketing and revenue operations division, Up Your Culture, its employee engagement and company culture division, and Robertson Lowstuter, its executive coaching firm, to help organizations achieve total revenue performance. To learn more about The Center for Sales Strategy and its portfolio of brands, visit DriveTotalPerformance.com.
The Center for Sales Strategy helps B2B companies improve revenue growth and reduce sales costs.
Driven by understanding each company’s unique needs, we improve sales, marketing, employee engagement, and executive development with our portfolio of brands which includes The Center for Sales Strategy, LeadG2, Up Your Culture, and Robertson Lowstuter.
As companies have different needs at different times, this holistic approach has proven to be a winning formula for revenue performance.
"CSS has a proven track record of identifying talents and potential of future sales consultants and sales leaders. While I appreciate the assessment and rating for selection, I value the coaching conversations with the CSS Talent Analysts. Each has documented success in media sales and management which allows them to walk in our shoes as we analyze our team members. "
LEADG2
"We've worked with LeadG2 since 2015 and will continue working with them...no end in sight. Not only are they positive, inspiring, responsive and fun to work with, they have transformed our business. We consider them partners and trusted advisors. They help us with our complete inbound marketing strategy from beginning to end, and since starting, we have tracked and attributed well over a million dollars in new revenue and have blown past all our key success metrics. We recommend LeadG2 to anyone... except our competition. "
UP YOUR CULTURE
"The Up Your Culture program was pretty much perfect and aligned with our needs. All the feedback from our leaders has been wonderful. I wish I had this type of structure when I led a market. I did it on my own and didn’t have a road map. Being given a roadmap but being able to customize it to the needs of each market, like Up Your Culture does, is extremely valuable. "
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