HIRS Core
Service
A foundational value that emphasizes a commitment to excellence and customer satisfaction. Every day, HIRS is committed to delivering exceptional services that exceed customer expectations. HIRS is dedicated to understanding the unique needs of clients and consistently striving to provide solutions that add genuine value.
Quality service extends beyond the projects; HIRS encompasses building strong relationships, actively listening, and adapting to evolving needs. HIRS strives to uphold the high standards, maintain integrity, and foster a culture of continuous improvement. Our commitment to quality service reflects a genuine desire to contribute positively to the lives of others and to create enduring and lasting impressions and spaces.
Knowledge
That which serves as the cornerstone of personal and professional development. HIRS embodies a commitment to continuous learning, intellectual curiosity, and the pursuit of understanding. Knowledge is recognizing the transformative power of information and the ability to apply it wisely. HIRS encourages and seeks out diverse perspectives, engages in critical thinking, and remains open to new ideas.
By prioritizing knowledge, HIRS contributes to the betterment of the community and economy at large. With knowledge, HIRS fosters a mindset that embraces challenges as opportunities for learning and sees every experience as a chance to expand one’s horizon.
Grit
Epitomizes a tenacious and persistent commitment to long-term goals and endeavors. For HIRS it signifies a collective commitment to perseverance, resilience, and long-term success. As an organization, grit involves encouraging and tackling ambitious goals with sustained effort, learning from failures, and persistently working towards objectives.
By prioritizing grit, HIRS fosters an environment that values a shared dedication to pushing through difficult situations to achieve meaningful outcomes. This core value becomes a driving force, whereas HIRS approaches each task with determination and a steadfast commitment to excellence.
Growth
Encapsulates a fundamental commitment to development. HIRS is an ongoing journey of improvement, adaptability, and a proactive approach to challenges. HIRS recognizes that growth is a process and that every experience contributes and shapes our perspective. Growth involves setting and pursuing ambitious goals, stepping out of comfort zones, and embracing change as an opportunity for advancement.
HIRS strives for communal growth, fostering a culture that values progress, resilience, and the pursuit of excellence. Ultimately, the core value of growth at HIRS seeks not only to achieve success but also to continually evolve, learn, and contribute to a positive and dynamic future.
HIRS is embarking on a transformative journey in 2024, steering towards becoming a social enterprise focused on building teams and bridges. Join us in shaping a future where business success aligns seamlessly with societal impact.
HIRS Vision
Operate as a social enterprise: improve and build affordable, innovative, and sustainable housing.
Design and build an inclusive community model offering short and long-term residential opportunities for international labor, students, minorities, women, and youth-at-risk.
Meet the Team
Owner and Founder
Emily Jeanson
Entrepreneur
Where entrepreneurial spirit meets hands-on expertise. Emily brings to the table a diverse and dedicated background spanning a Master’s in Business, a starter career in social care and non-profit management, which led to the Peace Corps, and eventually morphed into corporate incident and risk management. Emily built HIRS from the ground up over the last 3 years, and 2024 is about building and collaborating with teams and organizations that share the same vision.
Planner
Embodying the meticulous art of preparation and strategic thinking. Emily’s passion for planning extends through work and all personal endeavors. Emily has an innate curiosity to explore, advance, set, and achieve goals. Emily’s love for travel and connection serves as a source of inspiration and provides a broader perspective for growth and development. Emily navigates and embraces complexities, while simultaneously dismantling personal, professional, and societal boundaries.
Visionary
Constantly dreaming and pushing beyond conventional limits. Emily’s journey is a testament to relentless commitment to creating and building a legacy and vision that uplifts others. The vision is to break boundaries, challenges norms, and foster progress. The vision is to build a model community that offers opportunities for personal and professional growth through international exchange, labor skills development, and both short and long-term residential programs.
The Consultant
Brian Barnaby
Precision
Brian serves as the principal contractor and consultant, demonstrating precision and thoughtfulness in every project. Brian is committed to delivering high-quality results and has a discerning eye for detail. He showcases patience in completing complex and challenging tasks and his mathematical skills are unmatched. Raised in a family where the expectation was to fix, repair, and build, he embodies a wealth of knowledge, encapsulated by his personal motto: “we can fix anything.”
Proficiency
Brian contributes a wealth of assets - not only his technical expertise, precise measurements, established methodologies, and decades of accumulated knowledge. One of the youngest in a family of ten, Brian inherited years of wisdom passed down from his grandfather, father, and brothers who were also all in the trades. HIRS is indebted to Brian’s proficiency, making learning and training from him, paramount for the company.
Expertise
As a seasoned carpenter with extensive experience in nearly every trade, Brian embodies the lead contractor role. His resourcefulness, wealth of knowledge, and insightful recommendations make him adept at guiding homeowners through their projects with a step-by-step approach. He offers useful feedback, sets realistic expectations, skillfully navigates unexpected discoveries, and is always ready for the next project.
The Heavy Lifter
Travis Jeanson
Craftsmanship
Travis thrives in finished custom, novelty projects, demonstrating his versatility for planning and crafting an array of items from coffee and end tables, to bedframes, wine racks and interior decor, to his infamous cutting and charcuterie boards. He loves to innovate for all needs. Whether it’s reclaimed wood, aged barn boards, or a log from a backyard tree, Travis has the eye and talent to make enduring and heirloom-quality pieces.
Creativity
Travis possess a keen vision for creating distinctive custom orders - anything to do with bolts, lags, wood burning and favoring industrial, Nordic style. Travis recently undertook the challenge of creating signature furniture for a Viking/Medieval-themed wedding. The portfolio included a 16-ft head table, two 8’ food tables, two decorative tables, and 8x8 arbor and entranceway from with birch and maple logs, along with his-and-hers personalized thrones.
Strength
Travis is a generous blend of strength and determination. Not only exceling in the finished work, Travis otherwise prefers lifting heavy objects, or tackling the tough jobs like demolition and disposal. And he makes those look easy. Travis has worked across multiple industries and fields including construction, finished carpentry, cable, landscaping, sheet metal, welding, and operating heavy equipment. He is a force not to be underestimated.
Interested in joining our team?
We’re on the look-out to work with individuals who are willing to learn and committed to our mission. We encourage anyone interested to apply. Reach out and start the conversation today.
