With a proven, enduring business model and operating playbook, we have combined a disciplined acquisition strategy with purpose-driven organic growth. Our approach creates lasting value rooted in shared values—realizing our belief that business can be the most powerful force for good.We’ve built a culture where people are empowered to perform with excellence while caring for others. Through shared purpose, we create a place where people experience and contribute to vibrancy that radiates not only to our customers and other stakeholders in our businesses, but to our team members’ families, communities, and the world around them.Barry-Wehmiller’s intention of creating a better world through business – or what we call Truly Human Leadership – is the subject of a best-selling book, Everybody Matters: The Extraordinary Power of Caring for Your People Like Family, co-written by our late Chairman and CEO, Bob Chapman (1945-2026). Everybody Matters is the story of how Barry-Wehmiller evolved from a broken $20 million business in the 1970s to a $3.6+ billion organization with more than 150 acquisitions today. But it also tells the story of Bob’s transformation from a traditional business manager to a leader whose mantra became:“The way we lead impacts the way people live.”Upon its release in 2015, Everybody Matters was a Wall Street Journal best seller. The book has since been translated into eight languages and in 2025 was re-released in a revised and expanded edition with 90 additional pages of insights.As companies began to reach out to Barry-Wehmiller to share our insights, Bob founded Chapman & Co. Leadership Institute to share the lessons we have learned by partnering with other companies to create strategic visions, engage employees, improve corporate culture and develop outstanding leaders through leadership training, assessments and workshops.