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Jan has been working in the education and education technology fields for virtually her entire career, which has included actually selling Apple Computer hardware to K-12 schools in the mid to late 90s. Today, she is the Senior Vice President of Sales for ClassLink, a company which is helping school districts deliver 24/7 access to software and files from any computer, anywhere. In her current role, Jan oversees the Company’s sales strategy and execution, which involves visiting and helping school districts that are struggling with the use of online technology.For the first 17 years of her professional career, Jan worked with the Irving ISD as an educator and instructional technology director before leaving to work with various education technology companies including AlphaSmart, Edmodo, Pearson, and Renaissance Learning. She has presented at numerous webinars and conferences, including most recently ‘Digital Learning: Improving ROI through Easier Access, Better Analytics’ at the 2018 Superintendents Summit at the DA Leadership Institute. She has a Masters degree in instructional technology from the University of North Texas.
Jan has exceptional balance. By that I mean that she balances corporate goals with colleagues strengths. She finds the balance between a district’s need and ClassLink’s technologies. She balances the goals of those she leads with their talents and energies to succeed. Jan finds the balance between a need to grow and a positive, achievable means to get there. Jan’s balance is multi-dimensional as she brilliantly balances drive for school success with ClassLink, her personal goals for success, and her innate passion for her family, friends, and community. Finally, Jan balances her drive to success with her understanding that fitness and health are critical to a full life at work, at home and within the community.
Jan is a fantastic leader, who leads by example anything that she has asked us today she does herself as well. She has a clear idea of what the future should be for ClassLink and is taking great strides to add people to help achieve that dream. Jan has a huge heart and cares about her team as individuals and most importantly that our clients get the highest level of care and quality.
Jan Mills exudes exceptional leadership in every interaction and exchange. She is a brilliant, intuitive, and empathetic business leader who cares deeply about her internal and external customers. Jan consistently demonstrates tireless and unwavering dedication to ensuring expectations are not simply met but always exceeded!
Jan’s ability to build and lead our team has resulting in triple digit revenue growth over the last 2-3 years. He passion for ClassLink is unmatched.
Jan commitment to expanding sales and achieve great gains in expanded territories is amazing . She has grown the companies customer base tremendously
Vision for growth, relationship building with partners, patience and persistence, technical expertise, building talent
Knowing her team and company’s cabablilites to not only excel but push the boundaries to exceed customer needs.
Excellent at developing new companies and identifying their strengths to the needs of potential partners
Spirit and hard work, not afraid to get in and work. Builds a team and moves the ball forward.
Team Building, strategic thinking, personnel selection, process mapping, and integrity
Positive, motivating, encouraging and innovative; Mission-oriented and supportive
Challenges her team to utilize and expand their skill set to achieve goals.
Very knowlegable in industry and sales process in general.
Sales Management Business management Solution selling
Motivating, organized, strong, intelligent
Hard working dedicated to Education
Relationship building
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