5W&Co Promotes Dimetrius Lopez to Senior Corporate Trainer
5W&Co, a privately owned marketing management firm based in Cleveland, Ohio, has promoted Dimetrius Lopez to Senior Corporate Trainer. The promotion comes one year after 5W&Co first featured Lopez on its blog, and it puts him on track for the MILE, the leadership experience the company requires before anyone becomes a Team Lead.
MILE is short for Management Interim Leadership Experience. Before moving up to Team Lead, a Senior Corporate Trainer develops a Team Lead Support who can take over their current responsibilities. The trainer then spends a week learning new duties alongside the Assistant Manager and Manager while coaching that teammate through the work being handed off.
Lopez joined 5W&Co in September 2024 after working in healthcare and staffing, and he became a Corporate Trainer within his first year. When the company spotlighted him in October 2025, he said he was driven to prove the doubters wrong. Since then, he has worked through setbacks and hard conversations and learned that leadership starts with his own habits and standards.
“I’ve learned that being good at something yourself and being able to teach somebody else how to be good at it are two completely different skills,” Lopez said. “I think the biggest change for me is that I used to spend a lot of time thinking about how I could become more successful. Now I spend a lot more time thinking about how I can help the people around me become successful.”
Founder and President Brian Ward said Lopez’s focus on his team is what showed he was ready for the role.
“The biggest change I’ve seen is Dimetrius becoming more focused on the team’s success,” Ward said. “He holds himself to a higher standard, takes accountability, and goes the extra mile for his people and other teams. His field skills have improved, but more importantly, so has his ability to teach those skills to others.”
Lopez said he believes everything in the business is earned, and he sees the new title as another level of responsibility.
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