#27 – Danni Eickenhorst: Leadership 101: Pour Into Your People

Danni Eickenhorst is a community builder actively working to make the St. Louis region a better place to live, and she is also the CEO of HuSTL Hospitality. Her restaurants include Steve’s Hot Dogs, Steve’s Meltdown and The Fountain on Locust.

Danni talks to Cynthia about her carnival of careers in corporate America before deciding to go all in on the hospitality industry. The only problem? She had no experience whatsoever.

Danni is a master at leveraging her own strengths and lifting up others. She succeeded and learned some valuable lessons along the way, which she shares in this episode. She learned how to be a great leader and has create a new kind of restaurant culture that pours into each person and helps them pursue audacious personal and professional goals.

Dannie is also actively involved in making St. Louis a better place, sitting on numerous boards and participating in community building. She is unstoppable!

This episode will make you want to work with Danni and try every restaurant in her portfolio.

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