- Founded: 1978
- Headquarters: San Francisco
- Employees: 1,202
- 2006 Revenue: $30.2 million
- Units owned in 2006: 1,376
- Units managed in 2006: 28,841
- Units in the pipeline: 448 under construction/rehab, 1,427 in various stages of development
- Geographic coverage: California
LEADERSHIP LESSONS
- Name: Jack Gardner
- Title: President and CEO, The John Stewart Co.
- Age: 47
- First job: Residential construction
- Favorite quote: “You must be the change you want to see in the world.” —Mahatma Gandhi
- Favorite recently read book:No Shortcuts to the Top by Ed Viesturs (the first American to scale all 14 of the world’s 26,000-foot peaks)
- Best business decision: “Hiring great people and then trusting them to do their jobs better than I could.”
- Greatest challenge: Generating a reasonable profit while achieving public benefits (the “double bottom line”).
- Best advice someone gave you: The perfect is the enemy of the good.
Golden Warriors
The John Stewart Co. tackles some of California's most difficult affordable projects.
13 MIN READ
LABOR OF LOVE: Jack Gardner visits his first major project as leader of The John Stewart Co.: the $100 million redevelopment of North Beach Place, formerly a dilapidated public housing project in San Francisco.