Don Hines Biography | Winners’ Circle Training Centers

Educator Biography

Don Hines
Instructor

Don Hines
Winners’ Circle Training Centers
www.winnerstraining.com
www.water-fire-mold.com

Instructs:

Crew Chief Course

A Retired Marine Officer, I was born and raised in Chicago. During the stage of growing up, I was always an entrepreneur. The dictionary’s description is: risk-taking businessperson. A strong desire to succeed, coupled with the flourishing economy lead to retail management until the Marine Corps got a hold of me. I traveled the world for 20 years, retired, and faced the “Real World”. Big shock—a college degree was required to get anywhere in the corporate world.

Later on, working as an Adjuster for Farmers’ Insurance, I was fortunate enough to complete my MBA after having met my Partner, Jeff Dornberg, on a water loss. My MBA project was focused on the restoration industry. Later, as a Supervisor, I ran across him again. His strong reputation in the marketplace coupled with his common-sense business savvy proved that he understood opportunity. We formulated detailed plans, went for broke, experienced it, and above all, reaped the rewards.

Together we have developed successful businesses in areas we were not familiar with, where we did not know anyone, and fully enjoyed the challenge. We followed our plan.

During the soul-searching phase of “where now” in our business, we were presented with some diverse talent: our Winners’ Circle partner, Tim Ennis. His industry knowledge and experience complements the Winners’ Circle team in the Commercial Restoration arena.

We did a great deal of research which led us to create a training center designed to develop key personnel such as Crew Chiefs, Project Managers and successful business owners.