Leighann Kafel

About Leighann Kafel

I am graduating in May 2025 with a Bachelor\'s of Science in Marketing and a minor in Professional Selling and Sales Management. This past summer 2024 I interned at Prudential Financial within its US Businesses in Retirement Strategies sales. I participated in multiple Prudential annuity product trainings detailing their characteristics and client profiles. After these trainings, I selected one product to learn more in-depth and then created and delivered a presentation on this product to divisional sales leaders. I also looked into the current annuity sales training process and presented recommendations for improvements to this process to divisional sales leaders. Throughout the internship, I learned hands-on the annuities sales process through shadowing annuities internal wholesalers on their product illustrations and client cases calls with financial advisors. I also met with senior leaders from across the company, including Prudential’s Retirement Strategies, Individual Life Insurance, Group Insurance, Enterprise Analytics, and PGIM. From January 2023 to May 2024, I held an internship with One Degree Impact (formerly Williams Grant Writing), a grant writing and management firm. I assisted the adoption of a new platform for grant tracking and inputted and organized clients\' grant application information into this new system. I researched potential client leads and proactively reached out to these organizations on LinkedIn, Instagram, and Facebook. I also created social media posts, interacted with our followers and leads on social media, and used our social media data analytics to make decisions regarding content, timing, and format of posts. From June 2023 to July 2023, I worked as a Sales Representative with Cutco/Vector Marketing. I participated in Cutco cutlery product training, sales training and selling techniques, and weekly team meetings. I prepared and presented a 30-40 minute presentation of Cutco cutlery to customers and generated referrals from these presentations. I earned Top Sales Representative for the Philadelphia office twice during my 8-week tenure.

Experience

1. Inbound Sales Consultant

   Prudential Financial

   Sep 2025 — Present · Fort Washington, PA, US

Education

• Fairleigh Dickinson University Silberman College of Business

  Bachelor's degree

  2021 — 2025