Larry Brand of Elkay Manufacturing: “5 Things I Learned From The Social Isolation of the COVID19 Pandemic”

An Interview With Phil La Duke

A team of diverse people (thoughts, background, experiences, environment) can accomplish challenging work and solve even the toughest problems. Having been on the team that led our company through the pandemic, which caused multiple cases of employee sickness and death while also working as a leader focused on keeping our 100+-year-old business going strong, nobody was EVER trained to do. Yet, together we have successfully made it through. I am SO incredibly proud of that!

With the success of the vaccines, we are beginning to see the light at the end of the tunnel of this difficult period in our history. But before we jump back into the routine of the normal life that we lived in 2019, it would be a shame not to pause to reflect on what we have learned during this time. The social isolation caused by the pandemic really was an opportunity for a collective pause, and a global…