Gina Gera on leadership: Set an example, stay positive, say thank you
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Gina Gera, a Wegmans executive in Syracuse, says thank-you notes are important for a leader to send: “Maybe that’s somewhat of a lost art. But I have several that I’ve kept throughout the years.”Courtesy of Wegmans
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Gina Gera is senior vice president of operations for the Syracuse Division of Wegmans. She oversees more than 4,000 employees at nine Wegmans stores, one in Auburn and eight in Onondaga County.
Gera started at Wegmans 32 years ago as a part-timer in the Auburn store. Other than a Buffalo store for a few years, her work has been in the Central New York area. She has held just about every kind of team leader or manager position imaginable in a supermarket the size of Wegmans – from the front of the store to the back rooms, from the bakery to seafood to an overall store and to being in charge of continuous improvement of customer service.