Dan Moore – Harvard It has been a privilege to work with outstanding college and university students for the past 37 years. Thinking back on my own six summers of selling, starting after my first year at Harvard, virtually every aspect of my life since then has been flavored by some of the lessons from [...]
Kyle Peters – Michigan State University I was approaching my third summer in the Southwestern Advantage summer program, and it was going to be my first time as an “organizational leader.” Being an organizational leader is lot of responsibility – not only do you coach your team in the summer, but you also coach other [...]
Blake McDermott During my university years, I took a course on Leadership and General Management. It was a six credit course, held on weekends, and before taking it I was warned by the professor and other students who had taken it before that it would demand a lot of me, challenge me, and occasionally even [...]
Aaron Schafer – Michigan State University When I first heard about the Southwestern Advantage summer sales program in college I saw it as nothing more than something I was going to try for a summer. My girlfriend at the time (now wife) had sold books for two summers and done quite well. I was paying [...]
Shaina Chechang – University of Iowa I created a Bucket List the February of my freshman year of college. I brainstormed 85 things of what I wanted to do before I die, predicting it would take decades to accomplish. Within a year, I was able to complete a good chunk of my list. Four years [...]
An amazing man, called Jim McEachern, wrote an article entitled “What you will one day be, you are now becoming” in the 1960s. I heard about it when I initially was selected for the Southwestern Program in November 1991, and it made a real impact on me. Since starting with Southwestern in 1991, I am [...]
Erica Ohrazda – University of Washington If I were to speak of my Southwestern internship experience in short, I would say that there are few other things that I’ve done and will do in my life, that has changed my life as much as my experience with the Southwestern Company. There are many things that [...]
Rory Vaden – University of Denver Rory Vaden is a Business Motivational Speaker, Author, and Self-Discipline Strategist whose insights have been shared on Oprah radio and in print media such as SUCCESS™ Magazine. Rory is the leader of the Take the Stairs World Tour! For success tips on a daily basis from Rory follow him [...]
Bud Holmes – Bud Holmes is a former District Attorney and also a former sports agent. His clients included the late great Walter Payton. Bud’s daughter Mary Lee finished her first summer with Southwestern in 2010 and is going on a second summer in 2011. My daughter, Mary Lee Holmes asked me to write my [...]
Gary M. Price – Gary has had two children participate in the Southwestern summer internship I am writing this letter to any students and parents considering a first Southwestern Advantage summer internship. I am the father of two children who participated in the selling program at Southwestern, my son for only one summer, and my [...]