The Power Book 2023

JE DUNN CONSTRUCTION CO. From the inception of this awards program in 2008, the gold stan dard of employment has been JE Dunn Construction, the largest con tractor to call Kansas City home. It’s a civic champion as much as it is a national construction-services powerhouse, and it has long set stan dards for workplace design that inspire other companies, regardless of sector. Two years after that first recognition, JE Dunn introduced its employee stock-ownership plan, putting nearly a century of family ownership into the hands of those who helped build that success. It all starts, said marketing director Traci Clatterbuck, with a vision for the future based on growth, development, and opportunities for all employee-owners. The corporate strategy is honed through rigorous business and marketing planning each year, she says, with focused per LMH HEALTH For LMH Health, one of the biggest employers in Lawrence, successful workplace design includes an intense focus on education. Competitive pay is just a starting point, and in this case, it’s grounded in the annual review of multiple markets to keep current. But for health care, in particular, education holds a special significance. With LMH, sources of instruction are both in-house and external. From the inside, managers, directors, and senior leaders experience monthly leadership training to help create an environment of support, equity, and accountability and to ingrain LMH Health’s cultural beliefs, says Colleen Browne, chief peopleofficer. Those self-explanatorypillars arePatient First, Own It/Solve It, Better Together, Innovate!, Listen/Speak Up,

formance and development discussions. “In addition, managers par ticipate in a yearlong course that teaches them the skills to serve in an individual contributor role, move into a management role and devel op into strong leaders,” she said, a tactic that dovetails with efforts to identify top talent that will carry that growth forward. There’s tuition reimbursement related to technical operations and leadership., plus a robust catalog of instruction created by in-house learning profession als to give every employee the right content via the right vehicle at the right time in the flow of project work. Employees can choose between two consumer-driven medical plans with prescription drug coverage and two dental plans, supplemented by a vision plan with an annual exam and choice of eyewear and safety glasses, plus company-paid annual wellness screening and wellness coaching. and In Joy. “Additionally, all staff are encouraged to attend monthly wellness seminars, ID&E collaborative classes, and numerous other professional-development offerings,” she says. From outside sources, she says, “our commitment to employee career growth and professional development is seen in our numerous support and education programs.” That’s built on partnerships with local technical and training colleges, through which employees can become certified in fields like phlebotomy or sterile processing, or earn certification as a medical assistant or nursing aide—at no cost to those staffers. It all adds up to a sense of cohesiveness among the system’s 1,951 employees, who serve roughly 8,000 patients admitted each year, and multiples of that in out-patient visits.

EXECUTIVE Year of the C S u i t e A w a r d s

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