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Consultant (Sales Training, Sales Management Training)
Biography:
Ardell Fleeson, a sales training consultant, was the Membership Director at the Tower Club, a private business club in Washington, D.C., where she helped people join the Club for thirteen years. For her sales attainment, she achieved ClubCorp's highest honor, the Hall of Fame. Her background is in telecommunications, where she was a sales manager for ITT and Graphnet, messaging companies. For two years, she carried a bag for Xerox, selling to the legal market. She consulted for seven and a half years, providing sales training for high-tech start-ups, to help engineers get products into the marketplace. She is a deacon at Columbia Baptist Church and a former Leadership Fairfax board member, where she served on the judges' panel for the Northern Virginia Leadership Awards Dinner. She serves on the Board of the TelecomHUB and leads two monthly meetings for telecom and IT professionals looking for jobs, for the HUB and Women in Technology. She led a series at her church: God’s Next Chapter: Networking Toward Your New Job. Ardell lectures regularly on networking, "How to Work a Crowd." Several times a week, as a personal ministry, she counsels out-of-work technology professionals on networking toward their next job. She was included in the first FORWARD FORTY from Washington Business Forward magazine. Virginia Business Magazine did a cameo on her as Northern Virginia’s Queen of Schmooze, and Tech Counsel, a publication of the Legal Times, featured Ardell in an article on lawyers’ use of The Tower Club. Potomac Tech Journal called her “an incredibly knowledgeable matchmaker.” In the Washington Post’s “The Download” column, Shannon Henry called her “the business matchmaker” with the “golden rolodex.” Shannon included Ardell’s comments in her industry predictions column for 2003 and 2005. Her most recent public accolade was being named one of the Heroines In Technology 2003 for Deloitte, March of Dimes, and WIT. Ardell Fleeson has two degrees from the University of Texas, where her first degree was Phi Beta Kappa, in Shakespeare, and her second was the MSSTC, MS in Science and Technology Commercialization, an MBA but all tech. She has three kids who are the light of her life: two in college and one fully launched, gainfully employed.
Recent Publication Mentions:Quoted about Dolores Ebert, at Bobbie Kilberg’s Hot Ticket Awards http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/07/20/AR2005072002606.html?sub=AR Featured on move to Appian after 13 years at the Tower Club http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A42280-2005Mar16.html Quoted on technology industry predictions for 2005 http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A35784-2004Dec30.html Baltimore Business Journal, from a speech at Greater Baltimore Committee http://baltimore.bizjournals.com/baltimore/stories/2004/11/15/focus1.html Quoted about job search techniques http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A13973-2004Feb27.html Interviewed by Washington Technology Magazine http://www.washingtontechnology.com/news/18_21/last-byte/22685-1.html Interviewed by Washington Technology Magazine http://www.washingtontechnology.com/news/18_21/last-byte/22685-1.html Extension of this interview, on networking techniques http://www.washingtontechnology.com/news/18_21/last-byte/22733-1.html Leading a TelecomHUB monthly support group meeting http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A28355-2004Jan18.html?referrer=emailarticlepg Quoted about job search techniques http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A7852-2003Jul4.html Quoted about technology trends for 2003 http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A63952-2003Jan1.html Conducting a seminar for out of work technology employees http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A59253-2002Nov2.html The Tower Club as an economic trends indicator http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A59797-2002Jul24.html
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