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15 Reasons to Love GHE
We're celebrating our 15th anniversary all year long! This month, we reflect on 15 reasons to love GHE. Just 15? It was hard to whittle the list down to 15! So here we go: 1) We are resilient. We've weathered a housing market crash, The Great Recession, and COVID-19...
About Rich
Rich Dziemela is GHE's shipping and receiving clerk--and so much more. A lifelong Chicagoan, Rich has had an illustrious career managing warehouses. We joke that he is human warehouse management software, but it's true! Rich has so much data committed to memory that...
GHE 2.0
In 2016 with our focus solely on energy efficiency, Green Home Experts was poised to prosper in energy efficiency. Now, instead of homeowners and builders, our customers were solely implementation contractors and we achieved early successes in distributing measures...
Green Home Experts: The Early Years
2007 was an interesting time to start a business. Just like having a baby, there’s never a bad time to start a business! But there’s also never a great time to do it either. Did you know Green Home Experts started as a green building supplier before segueing into...
4 Actionable Ways to Quality Control Your Work
Quality assurance and quality control occupy a lot of our time and energy here at GHE. It seems to be something I talk about every day. But I’d much rather spend our resources on QA/QC than on stressing out about mistakes! Our warehouse floor buzzes with multiple kit...
Wonderful Training
Being a mom is wonderful training for being a business owner. In both roles I manage personnel, finances, schedules, daily operations and emergency responses. Managing staff has made me a better mom, too. It’s provided me with a more thorough way of seeing my kids as...
Boots on the Ground
This morning I heard actress and comedienne Melissa McCarthy on a podcast. She mentioned that, despite her stardom, she's always ready to pitch in on set with moving furniture, getting coffee, and doing the grunt work that many stars believe is below them. Then...
Calling in the Bullpen
Things have been going well at GHE. We are running like a well-oiled machine. We are growing each quarter despite the pandemic. It’s truly been amazing to be a part of. But what do you do when it’s time to grow? Your operation is already running so smoothly and all...
Colleen on Being Essential
When Covid first hit and the state of Illinois was facing a shut down there was so much uncertainty…I would go as far as saying the word panic!! People were told to stay home from work, and many people did not even know when they would be returning. Just a lot of...
Colleen’s Arrival at GHE
Did you ever think about starting over from scratch? That is what I did when I came on board at GHE. I was 42 years old and had spent 22 years working in the transportation industry. I played many roles over those 22 years. Ssome were a lot of fun like being the...