At 17, I wrote a goal on a piece of paper: own my own business by age 30. I spent the next 12 years defining what that business was going to be, but my purpose was clear. I wanted to help others by finding them employment. That goal became a reality in 1988, when I co-founded a national staffing company that grew to operate in more than 20 states. With over 30 years of experience in the industry, I saw, first-hand, the changing needs of the hourly workforce and understood the vital role flexibility and technology must play moving forward. In 2017, I guided the company’s transformation into MyWorkChoice, which embraces flexibility to provide a dependable, consistent workforce for our clients.

I co-founded a commercial staffing company with my wife, Tana, in 1988. It has been amazing to watch the rapid transformation of so many industries in the last 10 years alone, as tech startups have disrupted everything from how we shop to how we watch TV. The way companies find, schedule, and retain their workers has remained largely unchanged, and businesses and hourly workers are suffering as a result. MyWorkChoice has embraced innovation and, in doing so, transformed the way the people work, and the way businesses meet their needs.

I started working with companies on their workforce needs 32 years ago. Along the way, I found my purpose and appreciation for the profession. The realization came later that you are able to share in one of the top 5 most important decisions of a person’s life. Helping people find income, put food on a table, realize second chances, and put kids through school is a privilege. This has also given me a deep insight to the challenges of many blue-collar workers in the U.S. My goal in my last stage of my career is to find ways to make this work better for both the companies and the employees I work with every day.