RANCHO SANTA FE, Calif., Dec. 12, 2005 (PRIMEZONE) -- Julie Thomas, president and chief executive officer of ValueVision Associates, was honored by the Business Women's Network (BWN) and Microsoft as an Entrepreneurial Star Award winner during BWN's yearly Diversity and Women Leadership Summit in November. The award is a reflection of Thomas' work to uplift the sales profession by providing advanced training methodologies, along with her ongoing commitment to her community.
As president and CEO of ValueVision Associates, Thomas led the company to become an industry leader in competency- and process-based training for escalating sales performance. Since taking the reins of ValueVision Associates in 2003, Thomas has been responsible for rolling out more new products than in the company's previous 12-year history.
"I'm proud and flattered to be recognized by BWN," Thomas said. "It's gratifying to be acknowledged for a job that I'm so passionate about. I am especially pleased to be associated with a group of women who have the right ideals in focus: leadership, achievement and the need to give back to the community."
BWN is an organization long renown for being a valuable business, networking and educational resource for women and minorities worldwide. The Entrepreneurial Star Award is bestowed upon individuals who blaze the trail in the workplace on behalf of women.
Thomas is a Friend of the eWomenNetwork Foundation and involved heavily in her local public schools as well as the San Diego Children's Hospital Auxiliary.
About ValueVision Associates
ValueVision Associates is a worldwide leader in competency- and process-based training for escalating sales performance. Its proprietary ValueSelling Framework(tm) is founded on a practical, sustainable methodology that uncovers a prospect's critical business issues and enables the salesperson to link the unique value of their solution to those issues. Through personalized classroom instruction, sales executives are armed with strategies to access and dialogue with executive decision-makers, diagnose stalled decisions, increase forecast accuracy, eliminate discounting and increase deal size. Victory! is a competency-based series of online, multimedia training sessions for sales professionals seeking to sharpen their skills by building their core competencies.