Kudos

• Melanie LeFur– Jezika was my Sales Manager for for the past five years, and she completely changed my life! I now earn three times the amount I had ever earned in previous positions, largely due to her steady, enthusiastic mentorship. She has the good instincts needed to select candidates who are great matches for their positions. Her sales acumen is second to none, which inspires trust in her team! For example, her closing ratio was higher than anyone in the history of our organization. That can be attributed to her uncanny ability to read both people and situations to determine how best to move clients forward. She trained dozens of Design Consultants all over the nation and led us to exponential growth and success. She developed all of the training materials on her own, from scratch, as the company was a start-up. She built the whole team and took us from under $500k per year to over $15 million per year! We miss her terribly and whoever is wise enough to hire her will be a lucky organization indeed!
• Tamara Brown– I reported directly to Jezika at Stoneside Blinds and Shades. When I came to Stoneside, I had already had several years of sales experience but I learned more from her in just a few months under her leadership than I had in the last several years of my career. Jez is committed to seeing her team thrive. She works tirelessly to support others and ensure their success. Her enthusiasm and optimism is inspiring and she sees the best in people and inspires the best from them. I highly recommend Jez to anyone looking to build a strong sales team. Her passion and dedication combined with her talent makes her a force to be reckoned with and she will be a valuable asset to any team looking to succeed. Jez has made a tremendous impact on my career and I highly value the time I spent under her leadership.
• Tre’ Cates- I had the pleasure of working with Jez as an executive coach and strategist during her tenure at Stoneside. Over the last few years, I was actively involved with the executive team in one-to-ones and team off-sites developing strategic plans for the organization. It was during these interactions that I observed her passion, loyalty and commitment to supporting her team and achieving high-growth outcomes. The dedication and commitment to her team was a model to other sales executives. She built her success around the success of the team and did whatever was necessary to give them the tools to be successful. She was consistently over-performing on sales goals while building new territories and training new designers. I would highly recommend Jez as a sales executive with the experience and insight into developing strategy as well as the confidence to lead a high-performing sales team.
• Mickey Fain- I have known Jezika Therrien for six and ½ years. She joined Stoneside in November 2011 to develop and lead our sales team and reported directly to me throughout her career at Stoneside. During Jez’s time with Stoneside, Jez helped grow our sales by over 25 times. That’s right, our sales grew by 2,500% during Jez’s time with Stoneside. In addition to growing our sales, she transitioned our sales team from contractors to employees, developed our sales process, hired every salesperson, trained every sales employee and created and lead our first national sales conference.
  In addition to leading our sales team, Jez also served as a valued member of our Executive Leadership Team. Throughout her time at Stoneside, I appreciated her absolute honesty, total commitment to our success, never-ending positive attitude and passion for delivering a great experience to our team members, customers and partners.
• Lee Woodward- I’ve had the pleasure of working with Jez as a board member during her tenure at Stoneside. She recruited and trained a successful team of design consultants while dealing with the myriad of challenges that go with growing from a start up to a thriving company with $13 million in annual revenue. Her cheerful demeanor and tenacious problem solving helped keep the sales team together and focused on taking care of customers rather than internal issues. Her contribution to the growth and maturation of the company is greatly appreciated.
• Ashley Brown- Jez has by far been the best leader I have worked for. She is in a league above the rest. She is smart, talented, and most of all compassionate about what she does. She always leads by example, makes her team feel like a family, but it’s her integrity as a person that I admire most. Anybody would be lucky to have the opportunity to work with this incredible person!
• Kathy Mays- Jezika Therrien has been my Sales Manager for the past 5 years. She has helped me to grow personally, professionally & financially. She is highly driven, very motivated and can manage a nation wide team of sales people like no one I’ve ever met. Her desire to continually grow & bring others with her is infectious. She cares deeply about & for people on her team and others she works with. Jez is truly an inspiration to work for and anyone who has good fortune to work with and right along side her. I highly recommend working for and with Jezika Therrien.
• Deean Smith- Jezika is an extremely dedicated Sales Manager who has the unique ability to work with her sales staff to not just improve their performance with our company, but is able to help them raise their overall skill set to be a more successful sales professional. I have watched time and again as close rates have been increased sometimes by as much as 30%. I couldn’t recommend her more highly. I truly believe that anyone who works with Jez will benefit from the experience.