heartwood

About US

The Heartwood Group is the result of a calling to help individuals and organizations discover, understand, and strengthen their core purpose. We view leading transition as a core skill everyone needs to master to compete and thrive. Heartwood Group clients are achieving personal and professional success because they have clarity of purpose, effective skills, commitment, and a clear connection to how they are influencing their environment.

01. Purpose

Clarity of purpose is a state of awareness and level of knowing informed by goals and priorities.

02. Process

The path to clarity takes shape using simple processes and models.

03. Tools

Easy to use structures, guides and aides will accelerate transformation.

Proven Success

What We Offer Our Clients

• Experience in leading innovation with leaders from around the world. Although we work across all industries, much of our work is in agriculture engaging with farmers, executives, managers and teams to create high performing cultures, teams and leaders.

• Expertise in facilitation of outcomes with intact leadership teams to make meaningful change happen with their people and organizations.

• Knowledge across multiple disciplines, including strategic organization development and planning, training, customized content development and brand refinement.

• An array of practical tools that our clients can use to achieve clarity and successfully implement their plans. The tools are straightforward, customized, and when applied in context, help drive true transformation.

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Consultants

A Team Of Professionals

Mark Uhlenberg

Mark Uhlenberg

President

Mark’s clients and colleagues experience him as straightforward, sincere, and willing to lead and coach to achieve the results critical to their success. His experience is diverse across multiple industries. Mark has over 25 years of experience in corporate settings and over 15 years as a business owner. He holds an M. Ed in Human Resource Development and is also certified as a Master Coach from the Hudson Institute of Coaching. Mark’s clients value his practical perspective and know he genuinely understands the challenges that leaders face and the power of strategic development.

Valerie Tripi

Valerie Tripi

Senior Associate/Content Development Lead

With a strong background in strategic marketing/communications, learning content development and brand positioning, Val brings her strategic perspective, ability to frame up problems, formulate key strategies and manage their execution to Heartwood Group clients. She spent 15 years as an ad agency executive and also has had significant experience in corporate communications and teaching.

The Heartwood Group is a team of individuals dedicated to improving the leadership skills of businesses in order to achieve better results. We are the ushers to transition your business from functional to exceptional…

leading innovation with many leaders in ag and ag retail from around the world. We engage with farmers, executives, managers and teams and know what it takes to create high performing cultures, teams and leaders.

facilitation of outcomes with intact leadership teams to make meaningful change happen with their people and organizations. We are pioneers of executive coaching in agriculture.

in many areas, including strategic organization development and planning, training, customized content development and brand refinement. Our people know farming, animal agriculture, sales, markets and marketing.

that our clients can use to make changes easier to implement. They are uncomplicated, completely customized, and when applied in context, help drive true transformation.

What We Do Best

Executive Coaching

We grow your abilities as a leader and influencer of those around you. We work to establish the structure and process needed to make your preferred future a reality, not just a concept. You will understand transition skills and strategies and lead change more proactively than ever before.

Leadership Development

Successful leadership is a combination of doing many things well, often all at once. We specialize in organizations that need support in growing their frontline and team leadership skills and will help you build extraordinary results through a systems approach.

Organizational Development

Our philosophy is very simple — organizational development must meet business goals for performance and go beyond being “just a function” within the organization. Our core expertise is in grounded learning strategies that build organizational capacity.

Get In Touch

417 West Monroe Ave

St Louis, MO 63122

info@heartwoodgroup.com