Anthony Gardner Email & Phone Number

Peoria, IL, US

Erie, PA, US

• Manage the recruitment process for new agencies in Illinois, Wisconsin, New York, North Carolina, and Western Pennsylvania.
• Responsible for 65 new agency appointments through networking and selling the ERIE Value Proposition to various agencies across ERIE’s footprint.
• Collaborate with 5 Branch Managers and 28 District Sales Managers to ensure recruiting and onboarding goals are accomplished.
• Responsible for the development of District Sales Manager’s recruiting skills and holding accountability discussions when necessary if there is lack of growth or goals aren’t being met.
• Assisted in process improvements for the submission of new agent candidates.
• Develop District Sales Manager’s leadership, management, and conversational skills outside of recruiting to help them become well rounded in their role.

Erie, PA, US

• Led 19 agencies throughout Central and Eastern Illinois
• Oversaw the growth of $7M in total premium and 27% growth during my tenure
• Had 3 agencies win a Sprint trip for the first time and another agency win their first ELITE Trip for their agency.
• Built strong relationships with my agencies that led to high agent satisfaction scores with many of those relationships being still strong today.
• Held accountability discussions with underperforming agencies while recruiting in the same areas to help the overall growth of the district.
• Developed a new process to bring underwriting into the recruiting process which led to multi-channel input and assisted in the selling of the ERIE Value Proposition.

Peoria, Illinois, US

Woodland Hills, CA, US

-President's Council Winner 2018 and 2020!-Fully Licensed Property, Causality, Life and Health along with Securities Licenses 6, 63 and 26-Registered Principal who conducts financial audits of customer’s financial accounts in Agent’s offices-Oversee the recruiting process of new agents for about 1/3 of Illinois -Schedule, conduct interviews, and assist.

Assistant Boy's Basketball Coach to the High School Team

Southfield, Michigan, US

-Full cycle recruiting of IT, Engineering, and Professional positions for various clients. -Utilized Boolean search and job boards (Monster, CareerBuilder, Dice) to source qualified candidates.-Conducted phone screens with various candidates to ensure candidates met or exceeded client standards.-Built and maintained relationships with prospective.

St. Cloud, MN, US

-Manage a multi-county territory selling a wide variety of office technologies from copiers, printers, VOIP phone systems, document management systems, audio video systems, network services, database management, and various other forms of technology-One of 10 managers to the corporate social media page that analyzed data returns from marketing campaigns.

Minneapolis, MN, US

- Led a sales team that was awarded a “Top 50 Stores” award two years in a row for additional revenue brought into the store - Conducted onboarding classes for new employees by focusing on guest service, punctuality and appearance- Responsible for 1-on-1 training with 35+ team members by demonstrating how to accurately complete assignments through.

• Oversee a team of 20 non-exempt employees and a daily budget of $1,000 to accomplish operational objectives
• Researched and implemented a security ID system to foster enhanced security as bench-marked by Fortune 500 companies
• Identified fraudulent employee activity within the membership database and reconciled the behavior, generating an additional $2,000 in monthly association fees

Bachelor Of Science, Business Management & Administration- Human Resoruces/Marketing

Associates Degree, Arts & Science

High School Dipolma