Exec Limelight: Stevens Sainte-Rose

Identical (previously referred to as Surterra Health) is among the biggest independently held, up and down incorporated, multi-state cannabis business on the planet with a goal to leader health and also boost the lifestyle with cannabinoids. Identical has and also runs retail dispensaries in 4 clinical and also adult-use markets: Surterra Health in Florida and also Texas; New England Therapy Accessibility (NETA) in Massachusetts, and also The Dispenser Shoppe in Nevada. The firm has a varied profile of premium quality, proprietary and also qualified customer brand names and also items consisting of Surterra Health, Reefs Reefer, and also Drift. Identical runs roughly 50 stores across the country, consisting of farming and also producing websites throughout the 4 states.

Exec Limelight: Stevens Sainte-Rose

1) What is your title?
Principal Person Resources Police Officer

2) The number of years have you been with Identical?
I have actually been with Identical given that September 2019. Before signing up with Identical, I offered in elderly management placements with international business such as The Coca-Cola Business, Walgreens Boots Partnership and also Dawn Foods.

3) Where did you research?
I got my B.A. in Industrial and also Labor Relations from Cornell College, and also I finished my M.S. in Business Characteristics from the College of Pennsylvania.

4) What is your most effective specialist success prior to cannabis?
Along with my present function, I am additionally the Creator and also Principal at Chase the Experiences, an exec training experiment a concentrate on producing extra effective executive-level changes and also driving far better variety and also incorporation. I additionally have qualifications in The Myers-Briggs Business, Licensed Psychological Knowledge 2.0 and also Licensed Expert Exec Train.

5) What is Identical’s objective?
Identical is among the biggest independently held, up and down incorporated, multi-state cannabis business on the planet with a goal to leader health and also boosts the lifestyle with cannabinoids. We adhere to extensive procedures and also company methods to aid make certain the top quality, safety and security, uniformity, and also efficiency of our items and also are developing our company by adhering to solid worths and also placing the health of our clients and also staff members.

6) What has been your group’s most effective accomplishment to day?
At Identical our objective is to be the company of selection in the cannabis and also retail sectors where we draw in, involve, create and also keep leading ability whatsoever degrees of the company. This ideal placements us as a seller of selection for our clients and also permits us to perform our objective daily to boost their lifestyle with cannabinoids.
To do this we concentrate on 3 points:

1) Top quality incentives and also health advantages programs
2) Excellent specialist and also monitoring advancement programs whatsoever degrees.
3) Solid society of common function and also interaction.
In 2020, while we made progression versus all 3 locations, we are extremely pleased with our overall incentives and also health advantages programs. We have actually benchmarked our offerings versus cannabis, retail, customer item items and also health care sectors. These are mostly where we draw our ability. We are the marketplace leader versus cannabis and also retail sectors and also extremely affordable versus CPG and also health care sectors. Instances of our deals consist of:
● 401k with firm optional suit
● Tuition repayment
● Worker Alleviation Fund
● Collection of Life Support and also psychological wellness programs
● Item price cut
● Animal insurance policy
On top of that, all staff members have shares of the firm as we desire all to be component of the firm’s long-term success. These instances in addition to extremely appealing health care, oral, and also vision
insurance coverage are included within our advantages bundle. Our offerings are notified by us paying attention to our staff members and also evaluating them to comprehend what’s crucial to them as
well as benchmarking versus various other sector ideal methods. In 2021, we will certainly seek to increase our profile of deals in containers 2 and also 3 with a collection of specialist and also monitoring advancement programs and also social interaction programs to unify our group. Instances of what remains in advancement consist of:
● “Native,” our inner monitoring student program for per hour partners
● Variety and also social management programs (led by a Variety Council with well-known
worker source teams)
● Item experience and also accreditation programs
● “Identical Treatments” program that includes firm assistance of each worker’s charity of
selection with a coordinating payment
We will certainly take advantage of our well-known month-to-month pulse interaction study to confirm our tasks are
genuinely influencing and also involving our staff members.

7) Exactly how did the group implement this accomplishment?
While our clients and also people are what we stand up every early morning to offer, the core of what makes this occur is our staff members, specifically our front-line per hour staff members. Our offerings are notified by us paying attention to our staff members and also evaluating them to comprehend what’s crucial to them. We regularly benchmark ourselves versus various other sectors and also ideal methods to aid guarantee we are leading the market. This can not occur without management assistance, interaction, and also function modeling.

8) What is your group servicing today that is one-of-a-kind in the sector?
This year we actually took a go back and also took stock of what kind of advantages are most wanted by our staff members. Originating from a study we performed, we chose to develop brand-new programs consisting of pet dog insurance policy and also tuition repayment considered that the normal age series of our staff members is 30-32 years of ages. We’re additionally very pleased with 2 brand-new efforts offered for our staff members. Our Worker Alleviation Fund, which is made to sustain partners that experience economic difficulties and also is moneyed by the kindness of both partners and also their leaders. Grants to partners give financial aid to cover expenditures like transport, food, energies, and also funeral service expenditures that come from qualified occasions. This was a system in the jobs prior to COVID-19 however is significantly reliant upon as the pandemic advances. Our Much better With each other program provides a single honor of Restricted Supply Units (RSUs) valued at 10% of yearly base pay, enabling partners to profit from the lasting development of Identical’s worths. Both of these efforts are fairly one-of-a-kind not just for the cannabis sector however the American company sector at huge.

9) What are your forecasts for 2021 in your certain sector of the sector?
At Identical we are taking the lasting sight of our firm, and also as cannabis remains to come to be a component, we wish to be the lead in providing one of the most affordable advantages. The cannabis sector remains to draw in ability from several sectors and also will certainly remain to do so– ability that has an interest in signing up with the sector today, and also might not have actually also considered it a number of years earlier. We wish to be a leader in being one of the most affordable in exactly how we give advantages and also incentives so we can draw in, and also notably, keep the very best ability, and also aid those going into business or their very first task create properly.

10) What are your group’s long-term objectives?
At Identical our objective is to be the company of selection in the cannabis and also retail sectors where we draw in, involve, create, and also keep leading ability whatsoever degrees of the company. This ideal placements us as a seller of selection for our clients and also permits us to perform our objective daily to boost their lifestyle with cannabinoids.

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