Since 2002, Strategic Sales Solutions has developed elite sales teams. Whether you’re a Fortune 500 company or a 100-employee business, we work with your entire organization and leverage your “institutional” talents and strengths to build an informed, focused, and vibrant sales force. We help put in place an infrastructure that promotes sustainable success. And we provide real world, high-level sales training to equip and prepare your sales team to master any and all situations.

Management Team

Shelley K. Plemons, B.A., M.S., LCDC
CEO/President

Shelley K. Plemons founded Strategic Sales Solutions in 2002 building on her successful 20-year career as a sales professional in the healthcare field. Shelley’s area of specialty is the development of successful sales systems, the assessment and refinement of sales and sales management skills, and the deployment of strategic sales initiatives. She has conducted healthcare sales training programs for CEOs, sales managers, and sales teams at companies worldwide.

Shelley is also a well-known public speaker. Her program, "It Takes a Team to Make a Sale," has been the feature presentation at the sales and management meetings of several national healthcare organizations. Also, Shelley has developed a dynamic “SALES” process that has been presented to several organizations throughout the US and Internationally.

Shelley's professional vision is to help organizations that want to dramatically increase their revenue by developing their sales force and programs to be the best they can be. Strategic Sales Solutions offers sales training, individual coaching, sales system development, sales team and organizational structure assessments, and dynamics coaching. She has enjoyed a successful record of accomplishment using her motivational consultative style to advance organizations towards success.

Before founding Strategic Sales Solutions, Shelley was Vice President of Sales for Managed Health Network (MHN), LifeCare, and Executive Director of Referral Development for Charter Medical Corporation, in addition to other senior management positions in the healthcare field. She also has provided consultative services for emerging healthcare organizations. During her career in Sales, Shelley set numerous company records for revenue and managed many Fortune 500 clients including Tandy/Radio Shack, Phillips Petroleum, 7-Eleven, Mary Kay, and EDS.

Shelley holds a Masters of Science in Counseling from Amber University and a Bachelor of Arts degree in Speech Communication from Texas Christian University. She is a licensed therapist. She also enjoys teaching self-esteem and motivational programs to teen girls and adult women.

Shelley has recently been a featured guest speaking for the following venues:

• 23rd Cape Cod Symposium on Addictive Disorders
• The Alternative Board Dallas-Fort Worth-Mid Cities Chapter
• EAPA’s 2011, 2010, 2009 and 2008 Annual World EAP Conference
• EAP Technologies for their Business Track Series
• National Behavioral Coalition
• Fort Worth, Texas Entrepreneur Expo
• National Association of Public Relations
• George Hendley’s National Trainers

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Melanie G. Allen
Director of Strategic Planning

Ms. Allen brings many years of project management skills to Strategic Sales Solution. Ms. Allen draws upon her broad range of experience in database structure and design, project coordination, and training to ensure Strategic Sales Solutions customers with best-in-class support. She has worked with numerous software and database packages, including ACT!, Salesforce.com, Lotus Notes, and MS Access.

Prior to Strategic Sales Solutions, Ms. Allen worked in the behavioral healthcare field for eight years. During her tenure, she assisted with all aspects of behavioral healthcare sales, account and office management. She also led the management, coordination, and training of a proposal tracking and repository suite of databases and was key in revolutionizing the Request for Proposal (RFP) process. With the existence of this system, associates from anywhere in the country could track, report, assist, and reference data in real time. Ms. Allen also created and managed a conference registration database, which tracked and sustained all seminar activity and contents. Ms. Allen was instrumental in the relocation, orientation, training and continued project support for the Marketing Department.