At the beginning of each year, Extra Space Storage honors a group of outstanding individuals with the CEO Team of Excellence award. Recipients are selected by a committee of leaders across the organization for their remarkable achievements and commitment to company values during the previous year.
This year, the 2022 winners were invited to travel with a guest to the Extra Space National Sales Meeting in Orlando, FL, where they were recognized on-stage by CEO Joe Margolis. They also attended a special luncheon with the Extra Space executive team, held a group activity and dinner at Universal Studios Florida, and received a cash gift. Through their hard work, the winners of this prestigious award have helped Extra Space Storage achieve success and fulfill our purpose of helping people to a better tomorrow.
We’re proud to announce the 2022 winners and share their thoughts on our core values of Integrity, Excellence, Passion, Teamwork, and Innovation. We look forward to sharing more fun facts about each individual in the coming months!
Aleisha Adorni – District Team Lead
“I believe my integrity has allowed me to build strong, trusting relationships with fellow staff, leadership, and customers. Always do the right thing, as it will make you grow in abundance.”
Antwan Graham – District Team Lead
“Passion represents everything about me and how I go about doing my job. I have a relentless passion to be the best. I love to pass on any knowledge that I have, and I love to learn from others. I love my job; everyone knows that from the way I talk about it and show it.”
Arturo Oliva – District Team Lead
“I love my job. I love that on any given day I can meet someone who truly needs help and is looking to Extra Space for that help. We can make someone’s day go from bad to great by doing what’s in their best interest.”
Bill Mottram – Transitions Director
“Integrity is the cornerstone of the Extra Space values. Remembering to stay true to who I am and holding myself accountable with ownership have been invaluable. Building honest and sincere relationships at every level of the organization has provided me with opportunities to grow professionally and personally.”
Chris Woodcook – District Team Lead
“Teamwork is what makes everything count. You can’t do it all on your own. Others’ success is the greatest reward for your hard work with the team.”
Cyndi Garman – District Team Lead
“I have such passion for my job, whether talking to a customer, being the go-to person for other managers, helping another site, or helping a new hire succeed in their new role. I love what I do and the company I work for.”
Erin Schlund – District Manager
“Teamwork has been instrumental in my career. Through working together, we can challenge each other, support one another, and learn. Teamwork drives success.”
Jared Carter – District Team Lead
“Passion allows you to open the playbook much wider. It allows you to believe in yourself and what you’re doing. When you have passion, obstacles become momentary speed bumps that you either traverse or go around. When you care about and take pride in what you do, everything else falls into place.”
Josh Dandridge – Store Manager
“Excellence is important to me because I constantly challenge myself to surpass goals being set. I strive to provide an excellent experience for all customers and thoroughly enjoy friendly competition with my peers, as well as it brings out the best in all of us.”
Karen McCadden – Store Manager
“Integrity means doing the right thing at all times and in all circumstances, whether or not anyone is watching. Building a reputation of integrity takes years, but it can be lost in seconds. The value of trust others have in you is far beyond anything that can be measured. So do what is right and let the consequences follow.”
Ken Wieme – Store Manager
“Our success at Extra Space is not driven by any single individual’s performance but by the efforts and contributions of the entire team. Being surrounded by a team that strives to be the best versions of themselves encourages me to perform at my best every day!”
Lionel Berryhill – District Team Lead
“Innovation is so important to me as it aligns directly with my personal drive and dedication to make changes and improvements and to push the boundaries and barriers of what has been done. I love to do it like it’s never been done before and at the highest level of excellence.”
Mary Hernandez – District Team Lead
“Teamwork is collaborating together to achieve a goal. We must be willing to share knowledge with each other to achieve goals.”
Matt Davis – District Team Lead
“Integrity is important to me. We often spend most of our work lives unsupervised, and I am proud that I would not change my behavior if I had someone watching me in the office all day long.”
Matt Lish – Director of Lending & Investment
“Passion is having excitement for what you do and finding meaning and purpose in your work. Sometimes our jobs can be difficult and time intensive—passion helps you tackle each day with focus and the ability to get things done.”
Matt Luba – District Manager
“Passion is not only about being your best. It’s about proactively contributing to others and their development so that we can better our organization together as one where everyone can be their best.”
Matthew Borja – District Team Lead
“Passion to me means something you enjoy and love to do consistently. It’s important to me because it motivates and fuels me to make a difference in helping, assisting, and providing a positive experience.”
Melany Williams – Senior District Manager
“One of the reasons I joined Extra Space was because our core values aligned with my personal values. My parents taught me how to be passionate about life and always said if you’re going to do something, give it your all. When you are passionate, you find purpose, which drives you to persevere.”
Nick Jaggi – Talent Development Specialist
“To me, passion means, one, taking pride in what you do, and two, finding joy in what you do. Being passionate shows in the quality of your work and the quality of life at work that you create for yourself and for those around you.”
Robert Tyrone – District Manager in Training
“Integrity is important to me because during my time at Extra Space, I’ve spent much of my time alone at sites. To be successful is all based on what you do when no one else is around. It’s how you run your location and complete things daily by doing the right thing.”
Stephanie Bragg – District Team Lead
“No one person has all the answers all the time. We can only learn, grow, or sometimes get through the day by working together and relying on each other.”
Congratulations to our 2022 CEO Team of Excellence winners!
Featured Image – From top left: Melanie Hernandez, Lionel Berryhill, Matt Luba, Ken Wieme, Joseph Margolis, Matt Davis, Antwan Graham, Josh Dandridge, Melany Williams, Bill Mottram, Arturo Oliva, Robert Tyrone, Chris Woodcook, Karen McCadden, Erin Schlund, Stephanie Bragg, Cyndi Garman, Matthew Borja, Aleisha Adorni, Jared Carter, Nick Jaggi
