31 Dec 2024 Five-Oh-Ones to Watch 2025: Eleise Myers
By Lori Dunn
Eleise Wood Myers has been leading the business solution team in Conway Corp’s marketing division for just more than a year. The excitement can be heard in her voice when she talks about the job and the company as a whole. “I’ve been here 16 years, and I’m very fortunate to have had a career here,” Myers said.
Conway Corp is a public utility company that provides electricity, water, phone, internet and security for Conway residents. Myers joined Conway Corp in 2008 as a customer care specialist in the call center. In 2012, she was promoted to a commercial sales account executive and worked to grow the Conway Corp commercial voice and internet business.
She was promoted to her new role in December 2023. The business solutions team, which includes Myers and three employees, is responsible for commercial service sales, including voice, video, video advertising and internet to small and medium-sized businesses, as well as fiber/advances services to enterprise customers. They also manage customer support for some accounts.
A native of Conway, Myers loves working in her hometown. “I grew up here, and I’m fortunate to live here. One thing that really drives me is to be able to help people In the community,” she said. “It’s rewarding when you live and work in the same place. I’m personally invested.”
Myers said she can be out in the community on a personal errand, such as a visit to the pediatrician’s office with her daughters, and see first-hand the service Conway Corp provides.
“It can be something like the office phone lines in the doctor’s office. You can see what you do in action, which is really neat. Being from Conway, I knew Conway Corp had a great reputation when I started working there,” she said.
The customer care specialist credits much of her success to a positive working environment and the mentoring she has received from her direct supervisor, Crystal Kemp.
“It’s great when you have people around you who want to do good things. And they want good things for you also,” she said. One thing she especially likes about her job is the challenge of constantly changing technology.
“There are always new things out there and that makes it fun,” Myers said. Conway Corp began providing services for the city in 1929, when the Conway City Council granted it a franchise to operate the city’s electric light plant. By 1997, Conway Corp became one of the first companies in the world to offer high-speed broadband cable internet service.
She stays busy outside of work also. She and her husband, Timmy Myers, are the proud parents of Penelope,11, and Phoebe who is 5. The family enjoys traveling, and one of their favorite places is Branson, Mo.
“The girls really love Silver Dollar City. Mainly we just love to spend time as a family. My biggest accomplishment is my family. Making my girls proud and making an impact in their world is always my driving force,” Myers said.
She is proud to serve on the Conway Public School Foundation Board. As the new year begins, Myers is ready to take her team to the next level. “We are still a new team. My goal this year is to really settle into our department and thrive.”
