Creative Customization is their Forte
Like many a small enterprise in its start-up phase, ColsenKeane Leather, LLC of Charlotte, North Carolina, had a humble beginning.
“I began making leather goods in my screened-in porch. It was the first time I actually worked with my hands,” said company founder and owner, Scott Hofert. “There’s something sacred about working with your hands,”
At the time of his epiphany, Hofert was working in the cross-cultural, non-profit service sector. At first, he and his wife, Taryn, had been involved with a Virginia-based, international humanitarian organization. They traveled widely, serving in poverty-stricken villages and cities.
After returning to the states, the Hoferts settled in Charlotte. In 2005, he co-founded a non-denominational, spiritual community called Watershed, currently based in Chantilly, a Charlotte neighborhood.
He loved his life of service, yet, for some reason, “I was a little bit bored,” he confessed, during a TEDx Charlotte talk that he presented in November 2017. He wondered: “What’s next?”
He realized that he had always resisted working with his hands. But now, ancestral DNA seemed to be whispering in his ear. After all, in the 1920s, his great-grandfather started a jewelry business in Kenmore, New
