Eric Strickland is Chairman and Founder of 3LS, Inc., a diversified, multi-company employee-owned organization focused on strengthening families and communities. With almost twenty-five years of human services experience, in 2015, Strickland founded 3LS as the parent of the Omni Family of Services, including Omni Visions, Omni Community Health and Omni Family Institute and 3LS Properties. In 2021, he founded and launched Omni’s charitable foundation, The Omni Family Foundation. Following in 2022, he co-founded and launched SigBee and in 2023 he founded HopeNation Consulting and 3LS Ventures. He focuses on developing the long-term strategy and direction, leading innovative change, and building impactful relationships and partnerships to help keep kids, families and the communities they live in strong and healthy.
Eric started his career at the National Children’s Advocacy Center in Huntsville, Alabama before joining Omni Visions in 2005 as Director of Finance, becoming CFO in 2009. He served as President & CEO of Omni Visions from 2011 to 2015. During his time with the Omni Family, he has founded eight new companies to ensure a comprehensive mix of social services and behavioral healthcare for the communities we serve as well as to ensure a strong ESOP retirement program for our employee-owners.
Strickland holds an MBA from The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga and a bachelor’s degree in economics from Shorter University in Rome, Georgia. He currently serves as a Chairman of 3LS Ventures, a board member for Sigbee, HopeNation Counseling, Nurture the Next, Middle Tennessee Council, BSA and as President of the Tennessee Center for Employee Ownership. He also serves Special Advisor for Empactful Capital and previously served as a board member and board president for the Family Focused Treatment Association, as a board member for CompuCare Management and Systems, Inc. and as an executive committee member with the ESOP Association of the New South.
Eric is a member of Franklin First United Methodist Church, is a proud Eagle Scout and is an active volunteer leader at the Council, District and unit levels with the Boy Scouts of America.