Jeff & Julie Sparks Email & Phone Number

 Store Manager Topeka, KS.Customer-First focus.Trainer for LifeWay's Managers-In-Training. well-organized and work a precise workflow management system.Prepare all work schedules in line with expense control.Keeping Cost Control (expenses) at a minimum.Coordinated our sales and promotional activities. Design and conduct Daily Huddles with staff.Daily training in Customer Service, Sales, and Product Knowledge.Oversee yearly API inventories.Set highest expectations in training regiment in all things related to Internal Audits, striving for not excellence, but perfection, (End-of-Day/Start-of-Day processes, Financial Accountability, Record Keeping, Visual Merchandising, Promotional Compliance, and Inventory Management).Lead 15 - 20 employees, staffing for excellence. Train and set performance expectations for associates. The nature of this job is to grow: sales, customers, associates, and myself.

Hired as Acquisitions Editor--as I am a writer and editor at heart--but then, a hiring freeze changed the trajectory of my life and landed me a position at their bookstore in St. Louis's West County. From there, LifeWay, and LifeWay to here.

Fine Art, Fine Art Internship

Activities and Societies: Intense study with Master Artists of international calibre.

B.A. Theology, Biblical Languages, Art, Theology

Activities and Societies: Pre-Seminary Group, Fine Art Group, Chess ClubDJ, Artist, Juggler, Architecture, Landscape Architecture, Greek.