Inman has named Constance “Connie” Sayers as its new chief operating officer in charge of events, editorial and platforms. The move comes as the company works to become what CEO Tom Bohn calls “the Bloomberg of residential real estate.”
Sayers will lead the buildout of Inman 2.0, the company’s push to combine reporting, market data and community into one platform for agents, brokers, executives and proptech founders.
Connie Sayers
“Inman has something most media companies would kill for, a community that actually needs what it makes,” Sayers said. “The ambition Tom laid out is real, and it is buildable. My job is to turn the vision into a product the industry cannot work without, and to protect the journalism that makes the whole thing worth trusting. I am here to build.”
Sayers spent nearly two decades at Atlantic Media, working across Government Executive, National Journal and The Atlantic before becoming president of Government Executive Media Group, where she grew the flagship business from $9 million to $27 million in revenue. After the group’s acquisition by private equity firm Growth Catalyst Partners, she helped lead 14 acquisitions and ran commercial strategy across a 16-brand portfolio.
At GovExec, she launched the Defense One and Route Fifty brands, built the Studio 2G branded content studio and a research business called Leading Brands in Government, and ran a $25 million events portfolio spanning hundreds of conferences and summits a year — all while overseeing the company’s editorial organization.
That combination of newsroom experience and running the revenue lines around it is central to how Sayers’ background informs her new role at Inman.
“She has run the newsroom, built the events and owned the revenue,” Bohn said. “I wanted an operator who could hold all of that at the same time and still move fast.”
Tom Bohn
Sayers’ editorial background includes building National Journal’s live events business, leading advertising and events at CQ [Congressional Quarterly] Roll Call, and producing the 2008 and 2012 presidential election and convention programs in cooperation with MSNBC and CBS News.
Most recently, she served as chief content officer, chief revenue officer and publisher at Wellesley Global, leading global sales, content, research and events for the ERP Today brand.
Sayers is the author of three novels — including the Amazon No. 1 bestseller A Witch in Time and The Ladies of the Secret Circus, which drew starred reviews from Publishers Weekly and Library Journal.
Sayers has twice been named to Folio’s Top 100 Media People in America and its Top Women in Media list and holds a master’s degree in English from George Mason University.
