Ken Nisly is a business advisor on the Business Advising Team at Gehman. Ken is a certified Level 1 Instructor in Lead From Your Strengths and enjoys helping business owners discover their individual strengths and how they can effectively contribute to their team. Ken maintains that a lack of understanding of our strengths results in merely improving our weaknesses to an average level of performance. He believes that growing in our God-given strengths allows us to excel in our created design.
Ken has a variety of prior work experience. He and his wife, Gloria, served as missionaries in Belize. Ken also spent over 19 years in construction, in which 13 of those years he was a contractor business owner. For 10 ½ years, Ken served as Director of Hillcrest Nursing Home in Harrison, Arkansas. During that time, he gained valuable relational experience as he walked closely with both residents and employees. In 2015, Ken began working for Gehman Accounting. In his current position as a Business Advisor, Ken enjoys working closely with business owners as they grow their businesses in profitability and improve relationships with their employees and customers. He loves seeing employees develop and learn leadership in the workplace. Ken sees this growth impacting the employee’s future and benefiting their churches and communities. Ken’s favorite reminder for business owners is, “You cannot know where you are going if you do not know where you are.”
In his leisure time, Ken enjoys hunting, fishing, kayaking, and playing disc golf. He is privileged to have an 18-hole disk golf course on his property, which he enjoys with his children. Ken and Gloria have three sons, one daughter, and nine grandchildren. He never tires of spending time with their grandchildren and loves reading stories to them (over and over) and playing games with them. He has the goal to complete a Spartan Race with his oldest granddaughter when she turns 14.
The words of 2 Cor. 8:21 have inspired Ken to live transparently. “For we aim at what is honorable not only in the Lord’s sight but also in the sight of men.”
