Since joining Xerox as a sales professional, Blauvelt has served in management and market and product development, as well as her current position—marketing to the printing industry.
Blauvelt’s prior career as a high school teacher gave her a strong base on which to build a new one at Xerox. Interestingly, many of the sales reps Blauvelt first worked with were formerly teachers. “[Teaching skills] tended to work very favorably in terms of creating proposals,” she said, “because how you wrote letters, how you communicated, how you organized your territory—all those kinds of things were related to all the skills that you had to have to be an effective teacher, as well. So, we had an awful lot of women—and men, too—who came into the selling roles from teaching positions.”