Direct selling has several of these up and comers right now—young companies with solid leadership, innovative products and serious momentum. We explore their stories in this month’s cover story.

In these challenging times, when so many companies are understaffed and overburdened, I know many of the executives in the channel are hyper focused on leadership. It’s important that each of us dig deep for ways to help our teams, both internal and in the field.

This issue is our biggest of the year—and that’s because it’s our chance to recap everything we have learned and shared at the spring Direct Selling University and the annual DSN Global Celebration events. Now is the time where we can celebrate everything the channel and its top companies have accomplished over the past year.

This month’s cover story celebrates some of the channel’s “top shelf” products. Consumer-driven crave-worthy products haven’t always been something people associate with our channel, but thankfully that is changing.

In this month’s issue, we honor seven companies as the 2022 Best Places to Work in Direct Selling. We partnered with Quantum Workplace, an HR technology company collecting Best Places to Work data for more than a decade.

That’s the dream for so many companies—direct sellers included. And that’s why this month we decided to take an in-depth look at what it takes to reach that enviable milestone.