How Culture Drives Success in Business: Hughes Marino Featured in New Leadership Book

Shay Hughes | Lead from Within
September 20, 2021

Before we even opened our doors, Chairman & CEO Jason Hughes and I always knew we wanted to place company culture and the happiness of our team as a top priority. We wanted to develop an environment where our team members would feel more like family than co-workers, where our offices felt more like homes than cold office spaces, and where our teams would be committed to deliver hard work and excellence to clients. We have learned so much over the years and are constantly finding new ways to enhance our culture, which has definitely paid off in so many ways!

Hard Things

John Jarvis | HM Life
August 11, 2021

I have been talking a lot with our brokers here at Hughes Marino about getting out on wilderness adventures as a team. For my part, I typically have one or two trips on the calendar at any given time, either with the National Outdoor Leadership School (NOLS) or Cairn Leadership Strategies. The NOLS Alumni trips are a week long, but Cairn packs most of their adventures into weekend getaways, which got me thinking–we could sign up for these weekend Cairn adventures with each of our offices. Wouldn’t that be great for team building, each office doing a different trip, and as a company we would have all these different but common experiences that we could talk about and share and compare notes. Yeah, let’s do it! Except, many of our team members have young families, and it can be really challenging to get away for a weekend with your workmates. I totally get that. What to do?