Kevin Hancock
Kevin Hancock on the Business of Shared Leadership
Kevin Hancock
Keynote Speaker
Managing Owner and Chairman of Hancock Lumber; Award-Winning Author
“What if everybody on earth felt trusted, respected, valued, and heard? What might change?” Kevin Hancock believes that everything would change and that the place of work is where this humanity advancing transformation can best unfold. “In the 21st century, exceptional business leadership is about giving other people a stronger voice.”
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In 2010, CEO Kevin Hancock acquired a rare voice disorder that made speaking difficult. Kevin then began traveling to the remote Pine Ridge Indian Reservation where he discovered an entire community that did not feel fully heard. Today, Kevin believes that modern leadership is about dispersing power, not collecting it. Work should be meaningful for those who do it and companies can soar on the wings of thriving humans at work. The future belongs to employee centric organizations.
Hancock Lumber (est. 1848) is a ten-time recipient of the ‘Best Places to Work in Maine’ award, a two-time national dealer of the year, and winner of the 2023 IFOB innovation and technology award. Kevin is a recipient of the Ed Muskie access to justice award, the Habitat for Humanity spirit of humanity award, the Ken Curtis leadership award, Timber Person of the Year, and the author of three books including The Seventh Power – One CEO’s Journey into the Business of Shared Leadership. If your company has employees, Kevin’s message is for you.
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What if Everybody on Earth Felt Trusted, Respected, Valued, and Heard? What Might Change?
In 2010, amid the national housing collapse, Kevin developed spasmodic dysphonia, challenging his ability to speak and prompting him to adopt a shared leadership model, which significantly boosted employee engagement and company performance. His transformative journey continued in 2012 with visits to the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, where he engaged with a community feeling unheard, further influencing his leadership approach.
The combination of these two transformative events led Kevin into a new world of business leadership centered upon helping everyone at the company feel trusted, respected, valued, and heard. Work should be generative and energy giving for those who do it. The more the company focused on the employee experience the better the organization performed.
Through more than a decade of empirical learning, Kevin has become an advocate for the creation what he now describes as an “employee centric company” where the first priority is the experience of the people who work there. Work can be energy giving and humanity advancing. Companies can learn to soar on the wings of thriving humans at work.
In Kevin’s keynote talks he aspires to bring his audiences to laughter, tears, and reflective thought as he explains how to make work energy giving for those who do it and why the place of work has a unique and essential opportunity to advance humanity one employee at a time. Kevin’s lost his voice and found something meaningful to say.
“The real mission of our company is to enhance the lives of the people who work here – to make a meaningful contribution to the quality of their lives.” – Kevin Hancock, Hancock Lumber
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