Sales Training

LAUREN L. FOREMAN

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EXPERIENCE

Apple Inc • Jan 2011-Current • Business Workshop Facilitator,Trainer/Specialist • New York, NY

Train and inspire team members at Flagship store by sharing business priorities, strategies, and progress.

Represent the brand and vision of Apple’s business team by leading customized hands-on workshops,

presentations and company training sessions on a variety of topics. Support events to attract and inspire loyalty.

Develop both new and existing business relationships through a balanced sales and service model.

Freelance • 2010-Ongoing • Publicist • New York, NY

Write press releases, pitch stories and prepare authors to give interviews across all major national media outlets. Best-selling and top rated books include: Aftershock: Protect Yourself and Profit in the Next Global Financial Meltdown, Street Freak, and Models Behaving Badly.

Represented 29 Victims of Bernie Madoff. Wrote press releases and news pieces for launch of the book: The Club No One Wanted to Join: Madoff Victims in their Own Words. Coordinated media list, press conference and photo opportunity at the Lipstick Building. Ran social marketing campaign and managed national press.

Apple Inc • 2009-2010 • Management Representative & Escalations • Corporate Office • Austin, TX

Communicated official positioning on company issues to the public. Developed creative solutions to emerging trends which affected sales to European market.

Provided sales training to new staff. Gave presentations to upper management and corporate sales department via team meetings. Served as live and recorded sales training model. Sales record marked as highest in department history.

Benchmark Research • 2005-2009 • Associate Director, Marketing/Development • Executive Office • Austin, TX

Spearheaded the creation of a department in patient recruitment for six clinical research sites across San Francisco, Sacramento, New Orleans, Austin, Fort Worth, San Angelo. Recruited, trained and supervised 60+ staff to enroll patients in 200+ clinical trials via field work and local community outreach.

Wrote press releases and pitched news stories to local and national media. Prepared physicians to speak with press. Represented the company via national and local network broadcast interviews.

Successfully directed all sales activities and planning for major events, conferences and web design to attract major pharma sponsors. Cut spending budgets by 30% while revenue and patient database increased. Delivered recruitment presentations and training to senior management, physicians, and research site teams.

Aeon Consulting • 2008-2009 • Consultant • Austin, TX

Advised start-up businesses on pharmaceutical research industry, marketing and web design. Bonner Inc •

2001-2005 • Marketing/PR Assistant • Austin, TX

Provided original research for Proposition 15, which was passed by the Texas legislature authorizing $3 billion in general obligation bonds to form the Cancer Research and Prevention Institute of Texas. Texas is now the leader in cancer research and is responsible for a 64% increase in the funding for cancer research.

EDUCATION

University of Texas at Austin • 2001-2005; BA • Major: Psychology; Minor: Women and Gender Studies Phi Theta Kappa Honor Society • Leadership mentoring and training under Governor Ann Richards.

SKILL SET

Advanced experience with the following operating systems: Mac OS X, Windows XP/7 & Ubuntu Linux. Experienced in office suite applications: iWork, Microsoft Office and OpenOffice. Expert in iOS, iLife, & all business productivity solutions. Sales record and writing sample available upon request.

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