Honored
Leader: Larry Weinberg (CEO) and Josh Baker (President)
Company Name: BOWA Builders, Inc.
Location: McLean, Va.
Nature of Business: Construction
Founded: 1988
Revenue: $26.6 million
Growth Rate (2004): 24 percent
Number of Employees: 84
Average Tenure: 4.25
BOWA Builders is a 17-year-old, privately-owned, full-service construction firm with 84 employees. CEO Larry Weinberg and President Josh Baker are known for their fairness and for making decisions based on how they will impact everyone in the organization, from top to bottom. They seek employee input through a variety of methods and provide an array of incentives. Employees receive rewards for adopted suggestions, met deadlines, good performance, client satisfaction, and the profitability of projects. In addition, Weinberg and Baker divide after-tax profits amongst all employees. BOWA highly values employee development; each staff member creates personal development goals and receives 60 to 80 hours of training annually. The firm is committed to building a diverse, supportive workplace. It routinely recruits from Latino communities, and the owners actively work to build bi-lingual competency among all staff in order to better communicate with its Spanish-speaking workers.