Shawn Werner Email & Phone Number

Madison, WI, US

Circle of Excellence Winner: 2021

Madison, Wisconsin, United States

• Organize week by prioritizing sales calls
• Interpret quarterly sales summary to determine which accounts need action to maintain and grow ordering clients
• Connect with prospective and current customers to determine client sales potential and generate business
• Collaborate with other departments to ensure customer needs are met
• Assisted in the creation and presentation on the flex representative’s importance to entire inside sales department

Middleton, WI

• Represent assigned roster of artists
• Represent artists for assigned territories
• Attend artist performances and trade shows/conferences
• Coordinate specific tours for artists
• Engage in all aspects of canvassing, identifying, contacting and executing contract negotiations for engagements
• Sign artists to the roster as mutually agreeable, averaging one per year

Madison, Wisconsin Area

Whitewater, WI

• This position has ongoing responsibility for all of the auditorium's development efforts. The coordinator maintains the auditorium's four main tracks of fundraising: Membership, Corporate Sponsorship, Major Grants, and.
• Coordinate the annual membership campaign recruiting new members and encouraging renewing members to increase their level of membership
• Plan and attend the membership receptions during the course of the season
• Research and identify sponsorship support from prospective corporations and businesses
• Prepare briefing materials, proposal ideas, and solicitation strategies, and make personal calls
• Pursue funding for the auditorium’s existing endowments

New York, NY

• Organized and transferred monthly and yearly ticket sales and tour program reports for the current fiscal year
• Assisted the Director and Assistant Director of Visitor Services, and other departments
• Acted as a liaison for the 18,000 total patrons who attended the three-week long installation “The Clock” by the world-renown artist, Christian Marclay
• Gained considerable knowledge and skills including being able to work under pressure

• Chaired and facilitated committee to select more than 30 world-renown artists for the 2012-2013 Wisconsin Union Theater Season
• Collaborated with Union Cultural Arts Director to ensure diversity of programs, and to implement programming utilizing a $500,000 budget
• Coordinated Wisconsin Union Directorate Performing Arts Committee volunteers to staff each Union Theater season event (30 events annually)
• Aided in grant writing to support Union Theater season
• Collaborated with Union Theater Marketing Director to plan and execute marketing schemes for theater events directed towards the University of Wisconsin—Madison community and the Madison community at large
• Delivered preconcert and pre-performance announcements to audience of up to 1,200 people

• Researched Classical Artist options for 87th Annual Wisconsin Union Theater Concert Series and presented options to the Wisconsin Union Directorate Performing Arts Committee
• Collaborated with Union Cultural Arts Director and WUD Performing Arts Committee Director to winnow artist choices
• Maintained communication with artist agents to book performances
• Facilitated day-of-show logistics for all Concert Series events by clearly communicating with the artists and their agents
• Assisted in execution of Concert Series outreach events such as master classes, lectures, and meeting the artists