Leadership Matters

Third-generation Ace Hardware leader on why humility is his No. 1 core value

More than four decades in a family-run hardware business has taught Michael Wynn a lot about team building, servant leadership, growing leaders internally and more.

By Mark Gordon
| 5:00 a.m. September 14, 2023

Michael Wynn was one of the Businesses Observer's Top Entrepreneurs in 2019.

Charlotte–Lee–Collier

A conversation on leadership with Michael Wynn, president of Sunshine Ace Hardware and the third generation of his family to oversee the company, is sort of like shopping at one the company’s stores: It’s a comfortable, friendly place where product diversity, from adhesives and axes to wheelbarrows and wrenches, drive a repeat customer experience.