Lisa sees entrepreneurship as calculated risk, not certainty. Leadership, in many ways, is much the same. “As a woman in manufacturing, I have never viewed a seat at the table as a reward for having all the answers,” she says. “I see it as a responsibility to come prepared, listen carefully, speak with purpose, and remain open to what others can teach me.” What Gets Built Along the Way
Winton Machine is still, at its core, a husband- and-wife business.
“I couldn’t do it without him, and I don’t think he could do it without me,” Lisa says of George. Their first full-time employee is still with the company. Years later, his son interned at Winton while in high school, studied engineering and ultimately returned as an engineer himself. Lisa recently walked into an office and saw father and son together over a technical drawing.
“That is such a special moment,” she says.
Nearly 30 years after a machine first took shape beside a family car in their garage, that scene says something about Winton Machine that sales numbers never could. The company has built machinery that reaches industries around the world, but it has also built a place where people can create careers, raise families and pass knowledge from one generation to another. Lisa is approaching 60, and rather than speaking about slowing down, she sounds energized by what remains ahead.
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