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Jodi Weiss has been promoted to chief sales officer at Workman Publishing, a new position that marks the first time in company history that all of Workman sales, including gift, mass merchant, trade, international, rights and special sales, have been "integrated under one umbrella."
Workman CEO Dan Reynolds commented: "Jodi is extremely hardworking and a natural problem solver; she understands the importance of getting to know the book, she collaborates with both the publisher and the editor, she partners with other departments including customer service and IT, and she is immersed in the data that helps guide her. And she is notably relentless about getting our books into very competitive and curated markets. All of this makes Jodi perfectly positioned to help Workman navigate a very mercurial book landscape."
Weiss said, "I believe so much of who I am and what I have is because of the values Peter Workman instilled in me and the generous opportunities he provided. I am grateful to Dan Reynolds and Carolan Workman for this opportunity to work with our incredible sales teams in all sales channels. There are new challenges in this continually changing environment but also an incredible amount of opportunity, and I am eager to forge ahead and get to work."
Weiss joined Workman in 2000 as national account manager, mass merchandise, selling to Target, Levy (now Readerlink), Hastings, Musicland and more. In 2003, she took on the additional responsibility of overseeing Workman's gift sales department and then was promoted to director, gift & mass sales. In 2018, she began selling to the club channel and was promoted to executive director, gift & mass sales.
The daughter of a bookseller, Weiss grew up in the book industry, working in her mother's bookstore, S & S Books (part of a now-closed chain of 13 stores on Long Island in New York), from age nine. Before joining Workman, she was sales manager at Anness Publishing and earlier worked at Simon & Schuster.