b'CHAPTER 07BUILDING THE CULTURE | 103NEXTGENEvery one of the third generation of the Kennard familyrole he held until July 2020. During his time as CEO, he tells the same story of their introduction to their legacy:achieved three years of extraordinary growth with more the childhood production line, sorting, bagging andthan thirty-five new branches, as well as new specialist stapling for pocket money. The Child Labour Party,businesses. He also set up a major projects specialty Kirsty calls it. focus, central distributions centres to complement the business model, the EasyTrak telemetry platform, and The four children were born quite close together, andbegan the Kennards Hire digitisation journey. Underwhile they were still young, the entire family went tohis leadership, customer initiatives including after-hours live in Switzerland for a year. The younger Kennardspick-up and drop-off helped deliver customer satisfac-describe this as an amazing, immersive experience. tion scores of ninety-four out of 100.Its no wonder they are all accomplished skiers and have better than average French language skills. It wasAngus came in with a particular focus on building the a strong enough formative experience that when theyKennards Hire culture and bringing data analytics into reached adulthood, all four took overseas sojourns withthe company. I wanted to transform the business into their own families. the modern world through digitalisation, he says. He introduced a digital platform to manage and monitor ANGUS KENNARD assets, and worked on employee engagement activities, As the oldest of the four siblings, Angus has had thehelping Kennards Hire become recognised by Great most hands-on involvement with Kennards Hire, andPlace to Work, the global workplace rating website, hes been directly involved with the business for overas one of the top ten employers in Australia and New twenty years. Zealand in the category for 1000 employees or more.He began his career selling magazine ads, photocopiersAngus worked to build a strong and vibrant company and forklifts, and later earned a business degree. Inculture by engaging the people at Kennards Hire, and 1996, he started at the Kennards Hire Brookvale branchinvesting, focusing and improving Kennards Hires on Sydneys northern beaches, where he worked undersafety performance and culture. You cant have a Grant Spradbrow, former general manager at Kennardsgood culture if your people are being injured at work, Hire, and the pair became owners of Kennards HiresAngus says. Kennards Hires One Family value means first and only franchises. Angus later managed a secondthat its people need to live and breathe the notion that franchise in Mona Vale, which grew substantially, untileveryone comes home safe every day. In 2019, Angus both branches were sold back to Kennards Hire in 2003. won the National Sustained Excellence Award in the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Awards for his Angus then founded Kennards Concrete Care, whichentrepreneurial initiatives.eventually became a specialist business unit underthe Kennards Hire umbrella. Under his leadership, Angus is also involved in FBA, where he has served as a it expanded to five branches in Australia and one innon-executive director since May 2021. In 2023 he was New Zealand. After taking his family on an overseaselected chair of the FBA. In addition to his work with sabbatical for a year, Angus returned to run andKennards Hire, the entrepreneurial spirit he got from re-engineer the asset and procurement function beforehis grandfather, Walter, led him to start a new software he completed his MBA. He became an executivebusiness. He is the co-founder and co-CEO of Inauro, director in March 2013 and CEO in October2016, aa real-time data company that aims to create safer,'