Pamela Hollister
Owner
The PEOPLE Process
Las Vegas
Number of Employees: 2
Years in Nevada: 18
Years with Firm: 20
Type of business: Personality-Type Trainings and Products
Describe your leadership style:
Analytical and innovative, recognizing ideas and possibilities.
Biggest Business Challenge:
Getting the word out about the company.
Best Business Advice:
Learn all you can about yourself and other people – how you/they gather information, make decisions and take action. That’s empowerment because you’ll understand what motivates you and others.
Who inspired you to get into the business?
My husband and I developed The PEOPLE Process together out of a desire to teach others what we found so enlightening in our personal and business relationships.
How important are personality tests for new employees and company culture?
Personality tests do nothing for new employees and the company culture. When the company culture is focused on assisting all the members in understanding each other and how to collaborate harmoniously together, employees will come together to create solutions that work for the strength of the company and themselves.
Al G. Gourrier
President
1st Commerce Bank
North Las Vegas
Employees: 16
Years in Nevada: 15
Years with Firm: 3
Type of business: Commercial Bank
Describe your leadership style:
Hands off. I believe in hiring good people and letting them do the job you hired them for. I lead through vision, by building a team with a unified philosophy and a common set of goals, and working collectively to achieve it.
Biggest Business Challenge:
My biggest professional challenge was the development, organization and regulatory approval of 1st Commerce Bank. I spent nearly two years putting the bank together.
Best Business Advice:
Make sure you love what you do and like who you’re doing it with. It makes all the hard work tolerable and the success more enjoyable.
How do you retain your best and brightest employees?
By creating a work environment of flexibility, trust and respect. I’ve found that happy people are the most productive people.
Who inspired you to get into the business?
Growing up, my father was always a role model, a mentor, an educator and a significant leader in our community who inspired me to want to do great things.
What is the most important thing you learned from your parents?
Discipline, effort and preparation. Approach each day as a new day, and give it your best – things always have a way of working out.
When do you think the economy will turnaround?
We already have seen the beginnings of a slight turnaround. As the housing market continues to stabilize, the Las Vegas job market will begin to rebound with demand. We’re optimistic about the next twelve to eighteen months.
