Terry Poplava

About Terry Poplava

Terry Poplava is a multi-disciplined executive with extensive sales, product marketing, strategy and leadership experience in supporting the Catholic Church and other faith organizations. Terry’s professional experience includes consulting and training for church leaders, and conducting priority planning for dioceses and parishes while at Catholic Leadership Institute. At Our Sunday Visitor, he facilitated the consolidation and implementation of centralized sales and marketing across Our Sunday Visitor and AmericanChurch brands, and established Our Sunday Visitor as a nationally recognized brand and source of trusted service and products for parish operations and communications in addition to it\'s long-established reputation for publications.Terry’s natural desire to mentor, empower and inspire individuals and to foster teamwork is a foundation of his management style, and has enabled team members to advance to leadership positions. His dedication to stewardship and to supporting church leaders guides his approach to clients. He is passionate about serving the church through developing people and through creating and offering trusted resourcesStrengthsfinder: Maximizer, Strategic, Futuristic, Self-Assurance, Deliberative

Experience

1. General Manager, Acst Catholic

   Acs Technologies

   Jun 2023 — Present · Florence, SC, US

   Leading and stewarding ACST in service to Catholic organizations

Education

• University of Notre Dame

  BS and BA, Mechanical Engineering and English

  1976 — 1981

• Clemson University

  MBA, Marketing

  1984 — 1987

Skills

• Budgeting
• Maximizer
• New Business Development
• Strategy Development
• Public Relations
• Consultative Selling
• Business Strategy
• Strategy
• Strategic Thinking
• Negotiation
• Marketing Management
• Email Marketing
• Achiever
• Product Development
• Futuristic
• Market Research
• Account Management
• Change Management
• Direct Mail
• Strategic Planning
• Lead Generation
• Team Leadership
• Program Management
• Crm
• Cross-Functional Team Leadership
• Fundraising
• Social Media Marketing
• Marketing Strategy
• Stewardship
• Solution Selling
• Business Planning
• Sales Operations
• Annual Giving
• Competitive Analysis
• Customer Service
• Creative Problem Solving
• Sales Management
• Event Management
• Online Marketing
• Writing