“One thing about his leadership is he takes feedback very well, and I’ve had to give him feedback that he’s taken humbly and graciously and made changes. Kintner’s lucky shamrock jacket seems appropriate for the casino. Kintner is dressed for Fourth of July at the resort pool. “I did his one-on-one onboarding,” Stimmel said. She was the first person Kintner met when he came to the property. She has been at the casino since Day 1 in 1994, starting as a beverage server and advancing into human relations. Kintner also relishes the sense of family and community he feels from nurturing employees on the job, including a half-dozen from West Chandler.Īmong them is Harrah’s Ak-Chin Employee Engagement Manager Jane Stimmel, who lives in the Ray/Rural area. He’s an avid outdoorsman who enjoys working out with his family, running long distances and motorbiking with his kids. He especially wanted that for Mason and Chase, his two teenage sons, his wife Amanda, who he met as an undergrad at the University of Arizona, and Oakley and Kyah, a couple of Rhodesian Ridgebacks. Kintner craved the stability that he now has with his 16 years at Ak-Chin. Always the new kid, he learned to adapt to new situations and get to know people quickly. He also is shaped by the specter of being left out. Philanthropy and serving others became the essence of Kintner’s fiber from the example of his dad. New Harrah’s Ak-Chin general manager Mike Kintner of Chandler in his money suit. Consequently, Kintner had to move frequently as a schoolkid.

He also has serious values and personality traits shaped by his father, a career Air Force man. No doubt, the guy, at his roots, truly is goofy. We’re here to entertain people and have a good time.” “My canned answer is that, working here, we get to play games for a living. “People will ask me, ‘What, exactly, does a casino general manager do?’ and I have to think about it for a second,” Kintner said. So, when Chandler resident Mike Kintner parades around Harrah’s Ak-Chin Casino south of Maricopa in a costume for every occasion, or glad-hands and back-slaps a guest, or rolls out some wacky promotion in his new job as general manager of the casino and its 500-room resort, or keeps his 800 employees loose with his sense of humor, it’s a manifestation of several meaningful experiences along his life’s journey.

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