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Kevin Hancock is the Chairman of our family business as well as an award-winning author and nationally recognized public speaker. For the last decade, Kevin’s written books, spoken nationally, and created content that fuels his website, The Business of Shared Leadership, where he invites any visitor to follow his blog for leadership inspiration. The mission of his personal website is to heighten RESPECT FOR ALL VOICES. If everyone on Earth felt trusted, respected, valued, and heard, what might change? Kevin believes that everything might change–and, most importantly, that the workplace can and must become a catalyst for this transformation. 

Kevin started down this path over a decade ago, setting the stage for an updated company vision and strategy. ‘What if we created a human-centric mission?’ We’ve always been about people, but this is next level. At Hancock Lumber everyone has a voice and is expected to use their voice—to be a leader. It’s an employee-first, inside out culture. People spend a lot of time at work, so we wanted to find deeper ways for it to be more meaningful—making work important, but not all-consuming. We’ve simplified the mission and made everything employee-centric first.

– Erin Plummer, Chief Marketing Officer

During a January 2022 site tour across Hancock Lumber, Kevin visited six retail and manufacturing locations and spoke with more than 60 employees. When he returned to the office, he asked to huddle with the executive team for twenty minutes where he proceeded to tell his team that, ‘No matter how well you think it’s going; it’s actually going better than that’.

I was blown away on my tour by the self-regulating nature of the work culture. Everyone I spoke to was defining the values of the company in their own unique voice. The magic happens when employees take responsibility for the work experience.

– Kevin Hancock, CEO

Kevin believes the purpose of a human life is self-actualization, and this requires safe communities that embrace people as they are. At Hancock Lumber our goal is to create an environment that fosters this. Our mission is to create a work environment that first and foremost recognizes employees as human beings and ultimately improves the lives of anyone who works at the organization. On his website, Kevin emphasizes the notion that leadership in the twenty-first century must be about dispersing power and giving others a stronger voice. Followers must become leaders to create change from within. Every human spirit is sacred by design. Organizations must learn to free the human spirit rather than constrict, control, and direct it.

What makes me the proudest is the way the people in our company treat each other.  Everybody has bought into the concepts of shared leadership, dispersed power, and respect for all voices.  When this happens, it is no longer about managers promoting the cultural values, the culture becomes self-sustaining.

– Kevin Hancock, Chairman

Kevin Hancock

Kevin Hancock is an award-winning author, speaker, and Hancock Lumber’s Chairman of the Board.  Kevin’s first book, Not For Sale: Finding Center in the Land of Crazy Horse won three national book awards. In 2020, Post Hill Press published his second book, The Seventh Power: One CEO’s Journey into the Business of Shared Leadership. Kevin’s third published book released in 2021 titled, 48 Whispers from Pine Ridge and the Northern Plains, and is a hybrid book of sorts—part photography and part thoughts for reflection, heightened self-awareness, and human advancement. 

Thank you for joining our mission of shared leadership, dispersed power, and respect for all voices.

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  • 48 Whispers: An Introduction January 24, 2023
    The following is the introduction to my third book, 48WHISPERS From Pine Ridge and the Northern Plains.  Please enjoy. As a teenager our family took a vacation to the Grand Tetons. I was so enamored with the majestic grandeur of the West that I subsequently returned one college summer to work in Yellowstone National Park. I happily... […]
  • Losing Your Voice and Finding Your Leadership January 23, 2023
    On this podcast, Kevin Hancock speaks with Real Clear Values host Tom English about sustainable success. As Chairman of a 7th generation family business, Hancock Lumber’s sustainability doesn’t only depend on the sustainability of their supplies (i.e. trees), though that is critical, it also rests on people-oriented sustainability. In 2010, Kevin lost his voice and... […]
  • Kick off 2023 by reflecting on these questions… December 27, 2022
    In October of this year I had the honor of giving the keynote address at the LBM STRATEGIES conference in Denver.  The 50-minute talk was video recorded, and I would like to share it with you.  I hope you can find a quiet time over the holidays to relax, enjoy, watch, and reflect. What if... […]
  • ONE More Time . . . December 22, 2022
    “Is not the sky a father and the earth a mother, and are not all living things with feet or wings or roots their children?” —Black Elk “The Divine Matrix is the container that holds the universe, the bridge between all things, and the mirror that shows us what we have created.” —Gregg Braden The... […]
  • Who’s at War? December 7, 2022
    “To get people out of their misery, out of this genocide, that is the main reason, the motive and purpose of the military operation that we began in Donbas and Ukraine.” —Vladimir Putin Hancock Lumber has a long-standing customer from Pakistan. Each year we ship his company dozens of containers loaded with eastern white pine.... […]
  • Leading Without Saying a Word November 29, 2022
    In this article, Kevin Hancock writes about how Hancock Lumber became a Best Places to Work by comparing it to how a baby learns to walk. By learning without instruction, people will engage with their natural curiosity and begin to excel at their projects.   Click here to read the article. The post Leading Without […]
  • Crazy Horse November 23, 2022
    “Even the most basic outline of his life shows how great he was, because he remained himself from the moment of his birth to the moment he died; because [though] he may have surrendered, . . . he was never defeated in battle; because, although he was killed, even the Army admitted he was never... […]
  • Humans at Work Keynote November 14, 2022
    In October, Kevin Hancock took the stage at the LBM Strategies Conference as their keynote speaker, which had a record turnout. A captivated audience listened to him share how a few key ideas have helped transform Hancock Lumber’s culture over the last decade and lead to transformative results. Attendees came away with numerous insights and... […]
  • Flipping the Script November 10, 2022
    “Man should not be in the service of society; society should be in the service of man. When man is in the service of society, you have a monster state, and that’s what is threatening the world at this minute.” —Joseph Campbell The first mission of any company should be to make work meaningful, rewarding,... […]
  • Set Up to Fail October 27, 2022
    “The first peace, which is the most important, is that which comes within the souls of people when they realize their relationship, their oneness with the universe and all its powers, and when they realize at the center of the universe dwells the Great Spirit, and that its center is really everywhere—it is within each... […]
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