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Doug Cowles

Captain · DISC type DS
Territory Manager at PRAXAIR DISTRIBUTION INC
📍 Grand Rapids, Michigan, United States

Doug is a results-focused Territory Manager with a history of managing multi-million dollar account portfolios and achieving top 1% performance awards. He is a collaborative leader with experience growing business relationships and implementing personalized solutions for clients. He attended Muskegon Community College.

He is a dedicated team leader who values mentorship, communication, and showing appreciation for his colleagues. Doug is family-oriented, having taken his daughter on tours of his accounts. He demonstrates a hands-on approach by working alongside his team to understand their challenges.

To improve team communication, he started making a weekly team breakfast, attributing the need for it to his own self-admitted "lack of attention to detail. "

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Experience
17 Years
Current Role
Territory Manager
Job Level
Middle
Location
Grand Rapids, Michigan, United States
Personality Overview

How Doug shows up

Decisive But Calm
Consummate Professional
Long-Term Thinker

They exhibit a rare combination of being result-oriented but patient at the same time. Reading between the lines and seeing beyond your words comes naturally to them. They might take some time to make their mind up but once they do, they don't change it easily.

Priorities

Topics Doug cares about

Collaborative Problem-Solving
Shared a specific example of working with colleagues and vendors to find an innovative welding solution for a client's critical project.
Team Mentorship
Celebrates the long tenure of colleagues who mentored him and has experience coaching and developing teams of over 40 people in previous roles.
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Career

Work history

5-2016
Territory Manager
PRAXAIR DISTRIBUTION INC
2011 - 5-2016
Territory Sales Manager
Grainger
4-2009 - 11-2013
Assistant Manager
SpartanNash
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Media appearances

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Education
Education details unavailable
Muskegon Community College
Social presence
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Behavioral profile

DISC profile (public)

D

Dominance (D)

Dominance (D) reflects how goal and task oriented a person is, and their ability to accomplish results irrespective of how demanding the circumstances might be. Those scoring high tend to be motivated by winning, competition, and success.

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