Brent Slingsby

I am a former creative professional with international experience and an aptitude for creating efficient workflows that produce results that are not just faster but higher quality overall. Once I realized my ambitions had outgrown my growth potential in my creative career path, I started seeking out my next challenge and found the right fit in insurance sales. From there I was recruited into an account executive position at a marketing firm which was fruitful but knowingly temporary. Now, I am on the hunt for an opportunity which will be able to push my limits even further.

Throughout my career, I’ve gained the ability to learn and adapt quickly in order to keep growing and advancing. I was able to use those skills to get hired into both sales positions with no previous experience in either field. I was also able to land my former creative role with only two weeks of experience in Photoshop. Due to that and not just the depth, but the breadth of my professional experience, I know I’ll be able to shape my skills to any opportunity that I choose to pursue. My aim for my next pursuit is for it to be the largest and most permanent leap I have taken yet. I am eagerly looking forward to that challenge.

• While an Account Executive at Linder Digital/Radio Mankato, the accomplishments that stand out the most are spearheading a nation wide prospecting push and achieving such a high level of confidence and rapport with clients that several of them did not want to continue business with the company once I left until I convinced them that continuing working with the company was in their best interest.
• At State Farm, my most notable accomplishment was achieving a nearly 80% closing ratio and having multiple of those closed clients state that my level of service and care for them was the primary reason they switched insurance providers.
• One of my greatest accomplishments in my creative career at Fun.com was creating a system for standardizing both the photography and editing processes. Since implementing these systems, the department's output capacity increased well over 300%. After seeing this improvement, other teams/departments have adopted similar systems and have also seen great improvement to their output.
• My greatest achievement at Capstone was creating a system of visualizing sport stats for Sports Illustrated books that would be easily understood by children but would still be engaging to look at.
• My most noteworthy collegiate accomplishment was accepting an internship in the Netherlands at Buro302 then convincing the MSU faculty to open an American branch of the business inside of the college once I returned.