Blowing Up Your Company's Culture - and Putting It Back Together Again with Teresa Lindsey

<p><strong>Lisa Ryan</strong>: Hey, it's Lisa Ryan, and welcome to the Manufacturers' Network podcast. I'm excited to introduce our guests today,&nbsp;<strong>Teresa Lindsey</strong>. </p><p>Teresa is the CEO of Channel Products, a privately held Cleveland-based manufacturer of components systems and technologies for the gas appliance industry and beyond. Recently she's launched two new divisions of Channel, Spotted Yak, an engineering design firm, and Haute Door Life, an online retail entity, offering high-end curated outdoor living products. Channel has manufacturing facilities in both United States and China and a distribution Center in Europe. </p><p>Under her leadership, the company's revenue has grown by over 100%; profitability has increased by over 1,000% the overall employee base has tripled. She has built a culture based on high levels of individual and corporate performance and charitable service. Teresa, welcome to the show.</p><p><strong>Teresa Lindsey</strong>: Thank you for having me, Lisa.</p><p><strong>Lisa Ryan</strong>: Well, that is quite a background. I'm so excited to hear about your journey regarding how you got to where you're at. We're going to talk about the culture you created. Please share with us a little bit about your background.</p><p><strong>Teresa Lindsey</strong>: Thank you so much. I had a different life, a unique life. Some might say somewhat disadvantaged by comparison to others. I grew up in a world that I didn't have an emphasis on career or education. I had to navigate my way through all of that into adulthood and took several different paths. There are many splits in the road in that journey, but I finally ended up manufacturing several years ago.&nbsp;</p><p>I was going from General Motors into Haute corporation, a publicly held friction manufacturer. Then, after that, with the private equity firm who owned Haute and who owns Channel.&nbsp;</p><p>Through that ended up at Channel, and the way it got here is unique. We purchased Channel; I was with the private equity firm.