CAREER ENABLEMENT
CAREERS SPOTLIGHT
American author Mark Twain famously said, “Find a job you enjoy doing, and you will never have to work a day in your life.” For Advance’s District Manager Axel Guzman, these are words to live by. Axel joined Advance in 2010 as a part-time team member while in college studying business. As a frequent customer, he was invited to a career fair by the GM of his local Advance store and was hired on the spot. Though he continued his classroom studies while working in the store, he quickly found that time spent “on the job” was his greatest teacher and made working at Advance a full-time endeavor. He advanced to the role of general manager, and in 2021, was promoted to district manager with responsibilities over 16 stores. Axel credits the diversity of his team for much of his success. For his part, he inspires his group to bring their unique backgrounds and experiences to their jobs every day and enables them to own projects to continue developing their skills. In fact, Axel regularly invites his GMs to own challenges and then share back with the others how they overcame those challenges to help the business move forward. Continuous learning, accountability and hard work are descriptions that quickly come to mind when describing Axel’s leadership style. But most important of all, he pushes his team members to have fun at work and find joy in doing what they do every day. “I want the level of fun to be contagious,” Axel shares. “We succeed when we bring joy to what we do every day – from the interactions we have with our customers to the way we work together as a team.”
AXEL GUZMAN DISTRICT MANAGER YEARS AT ADVANCE: 12 | LOCATION: FLORIDA
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