Exec Limelight: Stevens Sainte-Rose

Identical (previously called Surterra Health) is among the biggest independently held, up and down incorporated, multi-state marijuana firms worldwide with an objective to leader wellness and also enhance the lifestyle via 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 Gain Access To (NETA) in Massachusetts, and also The Dispenser Shoppe in Nevada. The business has a varied profile of excellent quality, proprietary and also qualified customer brand names and also items consisting of Surterra Health, Reefs Reefer, and also Drift. Identical runs about 50 retailers 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 Human Being Resources Policeman

2) The amount 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 firms such as The Coca-Cola Firm, Walgreens Boots Partnership and also Dawn Foods.

3) Where did you examine?

I obtained 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 expert achievement prior to marijuana?

Along with my existing duty, I am likewise the Creator and also Principal at Chase the Experiences, an exec mentoring exercise with a concentrate on producing a lot more effective executive-level shifts and also driving much better variety and also addition. I likewise have accreditations in The Myers-Briggs Firm, Qualified Psychological Knowledge 2.0 and also Qualified Expert Exec Train.

5) What is Identical’s objective?

Identical is among the biggest independently held, up and down incorporated, multi-state marijuana firms worldwide with an objective to leader wellness and also enhances the lifestyle via cannabinoids. We adhere to extensive procedures and also service techniques to assist guarantee the top quality, safety and security, uniformity, and also effectiveness of our items and also are constructing our service by complying with solid worths and also placing the wellness of our consumers and also workers.

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 marijuana and also retail markets where we draw in, involve, create and also maintain leading skill in all degrees of the company. This finest placements us as a seller of selection for our consumers and also permits us to perform our objective everyday to enhance their lifestyle via cannabinoids.

To do this we concentrate on 3 points:

1) Top quality benefits and also wellness advantages programs

2) Excellent expert and also monitoring growth programs in all degrees.

3) Solid society of common objective and also involvement.

In 2020, while we made development versus all 3 locations, we are really happy with our complete benefits and also wellness advantages programs. We have actually benchmarked our offerings versus marijuana, retail, customer item items and also medical care markets. These are greatly where we draw our skill. We are the marketplace leader versus marijuana and also retail markets and also really affordable versus CPG and also medical care markets. Instances of our deals consist of:

● 401k with business optional suit

● Tuition repayment

● Staff Member Alleviation Fund

● Collection of Life Help and also psychological health and wellness programs

● Item discount rate

● Pet dog insurance policy

Additionally, all workers have shares of the business as we desire all to be component of the business’s long-term success. These instances in addition to really eye-catching medical care, oral, and also vision

protection are included within our advantages bundle. Our offerings are notified by us paying attention to our workers and also checking them to comprehend what’s crucial to them as

well as benchmarking versus various other sector finest techniques. In 2021, we will certainly want to increase our profile of deals in pails 2 and also 3 with a collection of expert and also monitoring growth programs and also social involvement programs to join our group. Instances of what remains in growth consist of:

● “Native,” our inner monitoring student program for per hour affiliates

● Variety and also social management programs (led by a Variety Council with recognized

worker source teams)

● Item know-how and also qualification programs

● “Identical Treatments” program that includes business assistance of each worker’s charity of

selection via a coordinating payment

We will certainly utilize our recognized month-to-month pulse involvement study to validate our tasks are

absolutely influencing and also involving our workers.

7) Just how did the group implement this accomplishment?

While our consumers and also people are what we rise every early morning to offer, the core of what makes this take place is our workers, specifically our front-line per hour workers. Our offerings are notified by us paying attention to our workers and also checking them to comprehend what’s crucial to them. We continually benchmark ourselves versus various other markets and also finest techniques to assist guarantee we are leading the market. This can not take place without management assistance, involvement, and also duty modeling.

8) What is your group dealing with now that is one-of-a-kind in the sector?

This year we truly took a go back and also took stock of what sort of advantages are most preferred by our workers. Coming from a study we carried out, we determined to develop brand-new programs consisting of pet dog insurance policy and also tuition repayment considered that the regular age variety of our workers is 30-32 years of ages. We’re likewise incredibly happy with 2 brand-new campaigns offered for our workers. Our Staff Member Alleviation Fund, which is made to sustain affiliates that experience economic challenges and also is moneyed by the kindness of both affiliates and also their leaders. Grants to affiliates give financial aid to cover costs like transport, food, energies, and also funeral service costs 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 affiliates to profit from the long-lasting development of Identical’s worths. Both of these campaigns are rather one-of-a-kind not just for the marijuana sector however the American service sector at huge.

9) What are your forecasts for 2021 in your certain section of the sector?

At Identical we are taking the long-lasting sight of our business, and also as marijuana remains to end up being a component, we wish to be the lead in using one of the most affordable advantages. The marijuana sector remains to draw in skill from several markets and also will certainly remain to do so– skill that has an interest in signing up with the sector today, and also might not have actually also considered it a number of years back. We wish to be a leader in being one of the most affordable in just how we give advantages and also benefits so we can draw in, and also significantly, maintain the most effective skill, and also assist those going into business or their initial task create skillfully.

10) What are your group’s long-term objectives?

At Identical our objective is to be the company of selection in the marijuana and also retail markets where we draw in, involve, create, and also maintain leading skill in all degrees of the company. This finest placements us as a seller of selection for our consumers and also permits us to perform our objective everyday to enhance their lifestyle via cannabinoids.

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