A Seat at the Table (Business of Home - Winter 2025)
It’s one thing to hire strong individual leaders—it’s another to treat them as a collective whose power can drive your business to new heights. BY HANNAH HICKOK
…that was true for Jacksonville, Florida– based designer Lisa Gielincki, who was singlehandedly leading her eight-person firm until two years ago. “I had been working with a business coach for a long time, and had gotten so far. I had all these dreams and ideas, but I was alone wearing all the hats: marketing, hiring, handling problems, trying to think ahead and forecast,” the designer recalls. In search of a fresh approach, she hired another coach to help the firm imple-ment business author Gino Wickman’s Entrepreneurial Operating System, a set of concepts and tools designed to improve focus, accountability and discipline within companies. One of the hallmarks of EOS is the formation of a leadership team—in Gielincki’s case, a design director, a sales and operations director, and an outside marketing consultant.
“We could look at the company together, identify issues, and [adjust our] processes and systems to fix them.”
For Gielincki, having a dedicated space to workshop ideas, troubleshoot challenges and share the burden of leadership was para-mount…READ THE FULL BUSINESS OF HOME ARTICLE.