Steve Laskarides:
Owner and Executive Director of Visiting Angels Home Care serving Ahwatukee.
Steve has gone from 20 years of experience as an Engineer and Engineering Manager working in the high tech semi-conductor industry to owning a Home Care company. One may wonder how does that happen! How do you go from being an Engineer to running a Home Care company!?? Steve has passion to ensure the Welfare and Safety of others. Steve started out his previous career as an Engineer responsible for $100+ million worth of equipment and loved every minute of it but after about 5 years and suffering from some serious tunnel vision Steve desired to do more and more importantly work more closely with others. As a young Engineer Steve started down a leadership path and quickly became a Group Leader and Manager of up to 25 people. Steve loved helping his employee’s both professionally and personally. The majority of Steve’s employees worked in the manufacturing environment and early on a few of his employees were hurt on the job. Luckily nothing too serious but this kept Steve up at night! In Engineering you are following the same procedures and checklists on a weekly sometimes daily basis. If one person got hurt following a procedure the likelihood that someone else could get hurt was high. To address this Steve developed a Proactive Safety Program that determined when and where the next injury would occur before it happened and then systematically removed that potential. This effectively eliminated injuries for his team, it worked so well that it was disseminated to his department of about 500 people, that worked so well it was disseminated to his factory (3000 people), that worked so well that it was disseminated to the entire campus (6000 people), that worked so well that it was then disseminated to the corporation worldwide!! Keeping people Safe and Saving Lives is what Steve enjoyed the most during his previous career, Steve realized that caring for others was his passion and calling in life. Even though Steve had a great career he planned to officially “retire” at the earliest opportunity to start his next chapter in life which would have occurred when he reached 49 and a half but an opportunity presented itself to retire about 5 years earlier than planned and Steve seized it and he is very happy that he did! Steve has a great business sense and entrepreneurial spirit, Steve always knew that he wanted to get into Senior Care in some way be it starting a Group Home, investing in an Assisted Living Facility, or Home Care. After much research Steve chose Home Care and Visiting Angles as one of the best! With this Steve gets to continue to keep people safe and improve their well-being, he still gets to help employees develop in their careers and personal lives, and he gets to exercise his business acumen and entrepreneurialship, its what he was meant to do! Steve is highly active in our local Senior and business communities. Steve is an active board member of the Senior Advocacy Group of Ahwatukee (the SAGA), Steve sponsors local church events, donations to local churches, and he is a member of the Ahwatukee Chamber of Commerce.
480-886-1165 & 800-365-4189
16815 S Desert Foothills Pkwy, Suite 123, Phoenix, AZ 85048
http://www.visitingangels.com/SouthPhoenix/home
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VIDEO - AUwHF #043 - Steve Laskarides
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