Real Faces of Sales Awards – these are the winners

In early April, we asked you to nominate your acquaintances and peers for our first annual Real Faces of Sales Awards. We wanted to discover those under-the-radar selling stars who may not get the recognition and notoriety they deserve. 

You all really delivered. 

We received so many amazing submissions and learned about so many inspiring examples of modern salespeople who are mastering the critical arts of researching, prospecting, relationship-building, and driving results. Choosing winners proved to be a considerable challenge for our panel of judges, but that was a nice problem to have. So, thank you.  

Today, we are excited to unveil our selections across three categories. Read on to learn about real salespeople who are making a real difference. 

The Real Faces of Sales Awards: 2019 
Our goal with this initiative was to highlight “great sales pros out there doing amazing work that goes largely unnoticed.” After sorting through a number of candidates, we settled on three winners:

Prospecting Star, Insightful Seller and  Consultative Seller.

Here’s a look at our panel’s choices, and what made them stand out. 

Prospecting Star: Andy Cowdrill, Business Application Lead at Microsoft

Congratulations to our new Real Face of Sales! 

Insightful Seller: Ewan Alexander, VP of Sales - Europe, Middle East, India & Africa at Crane Worldwide Logistics

Congratulations to our new Real Face of Sales! 

Consultative Seller: Lisa Cowan, Director of Growth Strategy – EQGlobal, Equiniti

Congratulations to our new Real Face of Sales! 

Facing New Challenges and Keeping It Real 
Going through all of these nominations, and reading about these esteemed sales pros, was honestly an invigorating experience. Sometimes, it seems like those cringeworthy tales of “sales fails” and faux pas are always the ones gaining viral visibility, but there are many more salespeople out there illustrating the way it should be done, today and going forward. This was a powerful reminder of that. 

Thank you once again to everybody who took the time to nominate a peer, colleague, or connection, and congratulations to our inaugural field of winners. Huge thanks also to our judges, who put a lot of thought into these evaluations: Josh Graff, UK Country Manager & VP EMEA & LATAM at LinkedIn and Karim Iskandar, EVP Sales at JRNI.