Dec 16, 2019
Our guest today is Ray Deck III,
a high-octane human, Founding Director of Skookum Kids, and the
Bellingham Chamber of Commerce CEO of the Year 2019. Throughout our
conversation, Ray shares insights into what makes him a strong
leader: taking natural talent and purposefully developing
leadership as a skill, planning, preparing and surrounding himself
with high-caliber team members who are humble, hungry and
smart.
Ray's story stretches from being a camp counsellor to moving across
the country, to managing a Special Projects team at a tech company,
to starting Skookum Kids as a side project and eventually becoming
the full-time director.
Skookum Kids was built around a single idea.
It’s an organization whose mission statement says it all “if we
take great care of people, the mission will take care of itself. So
we work really hard to make this a delightful place to volunteer
and to be a foster parent. We believe in health for all, meaning
that no person should ever have to sacrifice their own health to
serve kids….Healthy, happy well-supported people get more
done.”
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Credits
Hosted by Leo
Cohen
Produced and
Edited by David Pender Lofgren
Recorded and Mixed by Andy
Rick
Social Media: Cooper
Hansley
Digital Media
Producer: Tiffany Holden
Logo: Sam Vogt
Theme Music: Aaron Guest
Recording Studio: Binary Studios