About

Jason Baranowski serves schools for Jostens, the world leader in yearbook publishing. Jason currently serves Northern Virginia, including parts of DC and Montgomery County, Maryland. In his tenure he’s connected with over 225 schools in over 25 counties across the Commonwealth of Virginia, including the Greater Richmond, Southwestern and Northern Neck terrain. As a senior rep, his positive spirit, attitude and perseverance are the keys to success in closing new business and maintaining customer relationships. Sharing previous professional world experience along with technical creative know-how and journalism best practices is the best part of serving schools. Consequently, he enables individual students and educators to become stronger at making lasting, impactful memories for their schools through publications. Jason and his family currently reside in Herndon, VA

Experience
Sales representative, publishing division at Jostens
January 2004 – Present (20 years)

~ Jostens Leadership & Spotlight Award Recipient
~ Jostens Chairman’s Club Recipient
~ 90-95% customer retention rate over 20 years
~ Certified Journalism Educator (CJE), JEA
~ Official Adobe Influencer & Creative Cloud Member
~ Focus on Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Lightroom and newest Adobe Apps
~ Catalyst of positive school culture and climate
~ Jostens Univ. Instructor, Workshop Presenter

Collaborate by working with a wide variety of schools and demographics in the greater Northern Virginia area as well as Jostens corporate and manufacturing teams.

Educate and coach journalism teams to reach success in their unique business models. Lead school’s publishing teams through the process of storytelling, creating, producing and merchandising yearbooks and other significant school publications, including news magazine, literary magazine and more. Inspire students and advisers to master their full potential in journalism and creative techniques, especially with Jostens educational curriculum, Adobe Creative Cloud, digital cameras, cell phones, iPads, ink, pencils and paper.

~ Independently operate and manage assigned territory
~ Strive to surpass requirements of business plan for territory
~ Co-art direct with cover artists for theme and concept development
~ Establish sales campaigns and budget goals with school
~ Execute campaigns through email, social media and other marketing vehicles
~ Motivate staffs to complete assigned tasks and goals
~ Plan and run local workshops
~ Entertain, reward and celebrate with customers for attained milestones.
~ Impact positive school culture and climate.

Work with administration, establishing a methodology to reward, recognize and reinforce positive behavior in schools through
Jostens Renaissance. Get people fired up and reinvigorated to serve their schools and students. Catalyst in helping students refine their unique, positive character traits. Achieve results that increase GPAs, reduce referrals, reduce absentee rate and improve teacher morale.