Travis is the General Manager at Shottenkirk Chevrolet in Waukee, IA. He has spent over sixteen years in the car business, starting out in Oklahoma, moving to Kansas and now in Iowa. He has been instrumental in growing the respective businesses throughout his journey and each step of the way, he’s left a positive wake with everyone he’s worked with over the years. He started in the online sales area of the business, other roles include sales manager, used car sales manager, store manager, general manager along with even owning his own business. As stated below, he understands it’s all about people and the ability to lead through example and tried and true success philosophies.

Team building is the most important element of creating an environment for people to succeed. People are the true key to success and helping lead by creating rules and guidelines for the team and inspiring them to reach higher day in and day out is a cornerstone of success. Anyone can be a boss; it takes someone special to be a leader. His mantra has always been, “If you concentrate on making everyone around you successful, then you never have to worry about your own success. It’ll be there.”

Leadership is core to who Travis is and what he focuses on day in and day out in the business. His coaching style is similar to all the life lessons he’s learned playing sports throughout his lifetime. As he says, “When the coach starts to ignore you, you need to pay attention, he no longer believes you are coachable”. He knows this and has always tried to be coachable!

Travis is busy with his wife Sarah, raising their four girls, Avayah, Addie, Amelia, and Annabella. They enjoy the outdoors every time they can get out and he is also an avid golfer and fisherman!