SANTINELLI SALES TEAM MEETS IN D.C.
Santinelli International recently convened its sales team in Washington, D.C. for their annual National Sales Meeting. The three-day session led by Rick Clemente, executive vice president of sales and client services, focused on progressive ways of meeting customer needs and increasing efficiency through technology, while also setting the table for several other new initiatives.
The meeting celebrated strong recent customer satisfaction survey results and sales growth, in addition to providing the opportunity to recognize several sales leaders in categories ranging from outstanding achievements, record-breaking growth and company dedication. Product managers were also in attendance, providing advanced product training via interactive hands-on workshops.
Company president and CEO Gerard Santinelli opened the meeting by commending the team for their commitment, business expertise and the personal, customer experience they deliver. After various presentations and workshops, the team toured the Washington, D.C. area, including a nighttime Segway tour of historic monuments. “Spending a good amount of valuable time together as a team augmented the camaraderie and reinforced the team’s collective strengths by sharing experiences and learnings. The group’s enthusiasm is incredibly strong and they left the meeting highly motivated,” says Clemente.
ENCHROMA PARTNERS WITH NEWSEUM
EnChroma has formed a partnership with the Newseum to make the organization’s exhibits more accessible to people with Color Vision Deficiency (CVD). Through the partnership, color-blind visitors to the Newseum can borrow EnChroma’s glasses to see and fully appreciate the colors in exhibits.
The announcement of the partnership coincides with activities by various groups nationwide celebrating the 25th anniversary of the signing of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). Color blindness is often considered a mild disability, but studies estimate that two-thirds of the 300 million people with CVD feel it’s a handicap. According to EnChroma, 1 in 12 men, and approximately 1 in 200 females, have some form of CVD, of which approximately 80 percent can be helped by its eyewear.
“This partnership underscores our commitment to ensuring that all of our exhibits and programs are accessible to people with disabilities,” says Donna Baker, ADA compliance officer at the Newseum, which is located in Washington, D.C. “We are excited to work with EnChroma so that our color-blind visitors can learn from and enjoy all of the Newseum’s exhibits.”
In the color blind, EnChroma’s glasses re-establish the correct balance between signals from three photo-pigments in the eye. Once the correct ratios entering the eye are re-established,
the correct color can be perceived.
“EnChroma’s mission is to help people with color vision deficiency experience the same color in their work, social and artistic lives as people with normal color vision,” notes Tony Dykes, CEO of EnChroma. “We are pleased that those with color blindness will be able to see more colors in each exhibit when they visit the Newseum.”
In addition to making its glasses available for color-blind visitors to borrow at the Newseum, EnChroma’s eyewear will also be available for purchase in the Newseum’s gift shop. EnChroma’s Cx indoor glasses and outdoor sunglasses come in prescription and nonprescription eyewear, and in polycarbonate for pediatric, sports and industrial safety use.
EnChroma glasses can be purchased at Enchroma.com and through authorized optical retailers.
—Andrew Karp
