WANADA nominates DARCARS John Darvish for Northwood University Dealer Education Award
WANADA is pleased to nominate John Darvish of DARCARS Automotive Group in Silver Spring, Md., for the Northwood University Dealer Education Award, to be given at the NADA convention in Orlando, Fla., next February.
Darvish is a second generation dealer executive who started working in the parts department of the family dealership, Glenmont Chrysler Plymouth, Wheaton, Md. at the age of 8. Fast forward to 1993, when he completed the Northwood University Automotive Marketing Program and its back to the family business where he worked as a sales representative to put into practice what he studied in college. When he later became a sales manager, he conceived the DARCARS Selling System (DSS) that was implemented across the organization and is still operating today.
A key component in DSS is the hands-on teaching style of mentoring, where the experienced and established sales professional trains those new to the field in the skills required to become successful. Darvishs flare for mentoring in business, which he continues to use with new personnel at DARCARS, has carried over to his philanthropic pursuits. They have been focused on assisting adults with serious disabilities to be able to live independently. His personal involvement with Jubilee Association (Kensington, Md.), for example, has enabled developmentally impaired individuals in the organizations care to be better assisted through the substantial resources that DARCARS has contributed. The same holds true for Darvishs direct involvement with Housing Unlimited (Silver Spring, Md.), which helps low income individuals with psychological disabilities acquire permanent, affordable housing.
In other community endeavors, Darvish has been part of the DARCARS teams effort to raise funds while bolstering public awareness of the Parkinson Foundations work with an event known as Moving Day, where Parkinsons patients and their supporters gather on a fall weekend at Nationals Stadium for a walk along the Anacostia Riverfront. Similarly, Darvish and DARCARS have been the leading sponsor of the Bobby Mitchell Hall of Fame Classic (Leesburg, Va.), an annual golf tournament turning out scores of NFL greats and benefactors which together have raised millions of dollars over the years for the benefit of leukemia and lymphoma research.
With Darvishs involvement, too, DARCARS has been a leader in the progress of WANADAs Automobile Dealer Education Institute (ADEI), which has created a unique Auto Technician Development Program, now in its seventh year at Montgomery College in Rockville, Md.
Along with his brother, Jamie, and sister, Tamara, who are also graduates of Northwood, John Darvish is a graduate of the NADA Dealer Academy. An advocate of lifelong learning, Darvish secured a boat captain’s license and pilots license and is now training to fly jets.
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