My leadership style is to lead by example and action. I love to inspire others; mentor and encourage my team; and have an open-door policy with a positive outlook. I believe in being firm but fair with everyone I get the privilege to work with, and strongly believe in the teaching principle of “give someone a fish, they eat for a day, but if you teach someone to fish, they eat for a lifetime.”

Once our team and company was safe, the conversation changed. We began to look to the future and think about opportunities for our company to thrive in a post-COVID-19 world, which also means living and working with enhanced sanitation protocols for the next year or more until a vaccine is developed. I formed a COVID-19 Task Force to focus on developing best practices to develop sanitation and disinfecting programs to proactively help businesses create safe places for their customers and employees to reopen and return to work on a sustainable basis.

Do you ever think about breathing? Probably not…until you have a stuffy nose, or allergies, or that tight feeling in the back of your throat, or you’re trying not to cough, or not to breathe in that weird smell from who knows where. Only then do you remember that breathing is kind of a big deal.