2025 Impact 50 Honoree: Marty Hom

MARTY HOM
Tour Director/Tour Manager
Marty Hom, Inc.

LAST JOB NOT IN THE LIVE BIZ: ”I worked in the family grocery store business 40 years ago.”
THE TOOL/APP YOU CANNOT DO WITHOUT: ”Day Sheets.”

For those looking for inspiration in achieving a healthy work-life balance, Marty Hom shows how it can be done. After winning the 2025 Pollstar Award for Road Warrior Of The Year, the lauded tour manager spoke about the need to focus on the right way to tour – and “taking care of the crew and the men and women who work for you.”

Hom reflected on the atmosphere when he first started working in the live business – “it was like, you don’t miss a show, you just work your ass off, right?” We ask a lot of the men and women who tour. We ask them to sacrifice a great deal for an artist … to leave their families [and] their homes for long periods of time. But lives still go on, people get married, there’s graduations, special birthdays and deaths in families. And you can’t ask people to miss those kinds of things. So on the tours that I am doing now, you’ve got to give people some days off. You have to be understanding and compassionate to let those people go attend those things.”

The tour director/manager – whose clients include Stevie Nicks, Shakira and Olivia Rodrigo – acknowledges that it’s more challenging than ever to find balance, thanks to compacted routing and condensed show builds. He adds, “It is important to let your crews know that you care about them and prioritize their health and safety.”

Hom serves as a member of the board of directors for nonprofit MusiCares and points to continuing to mentor young people into the touring industry as one of his most impactful achievements over the past year, as well as “continuing to bring more diversity and advocating and supporting more women into the touring industry.”

He also prides himself on helping to bring mental health and wellness into the touring industry – including offering mental health services while on tour, including on Beyoncé’s last two tours, 2023’s “Renaissance World Tour” and 2016’s “Formation World Tour.”