After a stroke, CEO leads through empathy, creativity.

Solving problems for clients, in this academic meets real world approach, requires a mission-driven leader focused on five essential steps. It’s not for knee jerks.

By Mark Gordon
| 5:00 a.m. July 1, 2021

File. Doug Pace founded Tampa-based Stonehill Innovation in 2018.

Leadership

The third week of March 2016 was one of the ages for entrepreneur Doug Pace. One on side, he celebrated a major milestone, when he exited the digital marketing business he co-founded 12 years earlier, Bayshore Solutions. With some $10 million a year in revenue, 120 employees and offices in Miami and Denver, in addition to a Tampa headquarters, Bayshore was a career success for Pace, then 42 years old. Pace sold his ownership shares to his co-founder Kevin Hourigan.