Leadership Team
  Sallie Sherman President This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it |
Sallie ShermanPresident and CEOSallie Sherman is the president and CEO of S4 Consulting. She is an expert in helping organizational leaders transform the way they approach critical B2B relationships and implement the complex changes needed to manage those relationships as strategic assets. Sallie is the author of The Seven Keys to Managing Strategic Accounts and a Visiting Scholar at The Howe School of the Stevens Institute of Technology. She was selected as one of "12 Women You Should Know" for 2005 by the Women's Economic and Leadership Development Organization. Sallie has over 25 years of experience assessing clients’ strategic relationships, developing and guiding the implementation of new relationship management strategies and programs, consulting with executives in strategic and tactical management issues, advising them on relationship recovery issues, improving the quality of their strategic account programs, and designing and delivering executive development programs to improve strategic relationship management capabilities. Sallie earned her B.A. from Centre College, a master’s degree from Xavier University, and a Ph.D. from The Ohio State University. |
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Joe SperryVice President
Joe Sperry is a recognized authority on the principles and application of relationship management programs. Joe has written and lectured for more than twenty-five years on customer loyalty, service and relationship quality, and strategic relationship development. His presentation and publishing topics range from the fundamental tenets of proactive account management, measuring the health of account relationships, to strategic relationship recovery. Joe is co-author of The Seven Keys to Managing Strategic Accounts, and is a Visiting Scholar at The Howe School of Technology Management at the Stevens Institute of Technology. Joe has conducted thousands of multi-contact interviews at critical account relationships and hundreds of lost customer interviews, primarily at Fortune 500 companies. In addition, he has regularly developed and delivered programs about how to make relationship management programs a strategic advantage. In addition, Joe is a highly respected speaker and author. |
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Brad MitchellPractice LeaderBrad Mitchell is a principal and an S4 practice leader. He applies his expertise to assist senior executives across industries in the development, retention and growth of critical B2B customer relationships. Brad's senior executive leadership experience includes marketing & sales, business development, strategic planning, e-business and management consulting. Most recently, he was the founding President and CEO of ChainDrugStore.net, a leading web-based B2B marketing and merchandising platform for the $400 billion retail pharmacy industry. Prior to joining ChainDrugStore.net, Brad served as Senior Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer of DrugEmporium.com. Brad served on the White House staff of President George H.W. Bush and in President Bush's 1988 presidential campaign. He also led the presidential transition team for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy. Brad received his B.S. in Industrial and Management Systems Engineering from The Pennsylvania State University and his master's degree from Harvard University. He is a member of the Tau Beta Pi and Alpha Pi Mu engineering honor societies. Brad also serves on Penn State’s College of Information Sciences and Technology Advisory Board and the Service Enterprise Engineering Advisory Board. |
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Art van BodegravenPractice LeaderArt van Bodegraven has years of experience in consulting, especially with supply chain management strategies and execution, logistics planning and operations, cost reduction, time-based competition and process reengineering. Throughout this experience he has incorporated the importance of managing critical business relationships in improving productivity and performance.Prior to becoming a Practice Leader for S4 Consulting, he spent many years as a Partner in The Progress Group, LLC, an Atlanta based Supply Logistics Consultancy and twenty five years with Coopers & Lybrand (PwC), latest as a Managing Director in the Consumer Products Consulting Practice. He previously held several positions in Information Systems with a major U.S. steel producer; and served as Systems Director and Assistant Treasurer for a metal products manufacturer. Art is a co-developer of the CSCMP workshop, Fundamentals of Supply Chain Management now in its fifth year. He is principal co-author of the management primer, Fundamentals of Supply Chain Management—an Essential Guide for 21st Century Managers. Art van Bodegraven earned his bachelor’s degree from Purdue University. |
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