General manager: Ray Wood

Dealership group: Group 1 Automotive

Full-time employees: 26

Wood on learning how to be a better employer from managing through the pandemic: “Trust in your people and processes in place, and with 100 percent communication from the top down is how you win.”

New Car Director Amir Ghassemi on diversity, equity and inclusion as it relates to hiring and employment: “I would say diversity, equity and inclusion being involved in future hiring and employment practices will remain the same, and I will make sure to provide everyone equal opportunity and help them to get where they are picturing themselves with our company.”

Pre-Owned Director Bob Stockton on improving employee retention: “By giving better work-home balance in the form of opening and closing shifts, providing better training to be more successful early on in a career, creating a more positive and rewarding environment, and by giving better opportunity to earn more money through hitting goals and building retention in their own customer base”

Wood on offering employees a career path: “If an employee is ready to advance, the opportunity is there, whether it’s my store or another in the group.”