Researchers.
Strategists.
Designers.
Scientists.
Analysts.
We are united by our passion to champion the human.
Our diverse, solutions-obsessed teams don’t shy away from big challenges.
We relish opportunities to stretch. We seek out big thinkers—smart, savvy, motivated, problem-solvers—who desire to dig deep and deliver powerful solutions.
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Our Values
Do the right thing.
We stand on a foundation of integrity. Period.
Take it to the next level.
From curating top talent, to producing award-winning client solutions, to perpetual self-improvement–in all things we kick it up a notch.
Solutions obsessed.
We are undaunted. There is always a way to make an impact and we won’t stop until we find it.
Give it to you straight.
We challenge you and care enough to tell you what you need to know, not just what you want to hear.
Lifer mentality.
We are a place where both clients and employees continually learn, grow and realize their aspirations.
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Meet the Heart+Minders
![Maria Stein](https://www.heartandmind.us/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Maria-S-2022-square.png)
Maria Stein
SOLUTIONS MANAGER
“Surviving is important. Thriving is elegant.” – Maya Angelou
![Darren Bishop](https://www.heartandmind.us/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Darren-2018-square.png)
Darren Bishop
SVP, PRACTICE LEADER Travel + Tourism
“We’re building something here, detective. We’re building it from scratch. All the pieces matter.” – Lester Holt, The Wire
![Marjie Sands](https://www.heartandmind.us/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Marjie-2018-square.png)
Marjie Sands
GROUP DIRECTOR, Insights Services + Partnerships
“Well, you know what they say: If you don’t have anything nice to say about anybody, come sit by me.” – Clairee Belcher, Steel Magnolias
![Jim Wilkerson](https://www.heartandmind.us/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/JimW-2019-square.png)
Jim Wilkerson
SENIOR SOLUTIONS DIRECTOR
“To ask the right question is already half the solution to a problem.” – Carl Jung
![Meredith McKay](https://www.heartandmind.us/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/MeredithM-2022-square.png)
Meredith McKay
SOLUTIONS ASSOCIATE
“All I know is that I know nothing.” – Socrates
![Brittany Lucas](https://www.heartandmind.us/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Brittany-2019-square.png)
Brittany Lucas
SOLUTIONS DIRECTOR
![Dee Allsop, Ph.D](https://www.heartandmind.us/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/DeeA-2022-square.png)
Dee Allsop, Ph.D
CO-CEO, FOUNDING PARTNER
“If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches and poor men’s cottages princes’ palaces.” – William Shakespeare, Merchant of Venice Act 1, Scene II
![Danielle Burnham](https://www.heartandmind.us/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Danielle-B-square.png)
Danielle Burnham
SOLUTIONS MANAGER
“It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.” – Albus Dumbledore, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone
![Andrew Cober](https://www.heartandmind.us/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Andrew-2019-square.png)
Andrew Cober
SENIOR QUALITATIVE CONSULTANT
“I don’t know where I’m going from here, but I promise I won’t bore you.” – David Bowie
![Jenice Spicer](https://www.heartandmind.us/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Jenice-2016-square.png)
Jenice Spicer
CONTROLLER
![Kirsten Flory](https://www.heartandmind.us/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Kirsten-2019-square.png)
Kirsten Flory
SOLUTIONS, DIRECTOR, Brand + Communications Practice Manager
![Mike Dabadie](https://www.heartandmind.us/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/MikeD-2018-square.png)
Mike Dabadie
CO-CEO, FOUNDING PARTNER
“Life is a matter of choices, and every choice you make, makes you.” – John C. Maxwell
![Jeanette LeNoir](https://www.heartandmind.us/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/JeanetteL-2022-square.png)
Jeanette LeNoir
SENIOR MANAGER, Insights Services + Partnerships
“Live each day as if your life had just begun.” – Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
![Ben Custer](https://www.heartandmind.us/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Ben-2019-square.png)
Ben Custer
SENIOR SOLUTIONS CONSULTANT
“If we treat people as if they were what they ought to be, we help them become what they are capable of becoming.” – Johan Wolfgang van Goethe
![Carol Gstalder](https://www.heartandmind.us/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Carol-G-2022-square.png)
Carol Gstalder
SVP, PRACTICE LEADER Brand + Communications
“Be who you are and be that well.” – St. Francis de Sales
![Kevin Boyle](https://www.heartandmind.us/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Kevin-2020-square.png)
Kevin Boyle
SOLUTIONS MANAGER
![Jen Walsh](https://www.heartandmind.us/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Jen-W-2022-square.png)
Jen Walsh
SENIOR SOLUTIONS DIRECTOR, Travel + Tourism Practice Manager
“To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift.” – Steve Prefontaine
![Bruce Blakeman](https://www.heartandmind.us/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/BruceB-2022-square.png)
Bruce Blakeman
SVP, PRACTICE LEADER Public Policy + Issues
“Whether you think you can, or you think you can’t–you’re right.” – Henry Ford
![Jack Szeltner](https://www.heartandmind.us/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Jack-S-2024-Square-1.png)
Jack Szeltner
SENIOR SOLUTIONS CONSULTANT
“So it goes.” – Billy Pilgrim, Slaughterhouse V
![Johanna Englund](https://www.heartandmind.us/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/JohannaE-2022-square.png)
Johanna Englund
SOLUTIONS ASSOCIATE
“Do. Or do not. There is no try.” – Master Yoda
![Tyler Ballard](https://www.heartandmind.us/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/TylerB-2022-square.png)
Tyler Ballard
SOLUTIONS ASSOCIATE
![Carlos Elordi, Ph.D](https://www.heartandmind.us/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Carlos-2015-square.png)
Carlos Elordi, Ph.D
CHIEF DATA SCIENTIST
![Jaclyn Crawford](https://www.heartandmind.us/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Jaclyn-2017-square.png)
Jaclyn Crawford
SENIOR SOLUTIONS DIRECTOR, Public Policy + Issues Practice Manager
![Tom Doskow](https://www.heartandmind.us/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/TomD-2022-square.png)
Tom Doskow
SENIOR SOLUTIONS MANAGER
“The outcome of successful planning always looks like luck to saps.” – Dashiell Hammett
![Jennifer Airey](https://www.heartandmind.us/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Jennifer-2019-square.png)
Jennifer Airey
FOUNDING PARTNER
![Tomas Calderon](https://www.heartandmind.us/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Tomas-2021-square.png)
Tomas Calderon
SENIOR SOLUTIONS ASSOCIATE
![Kris Dabadie](https://www.heartandmind.us/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Kris-D-2015-square.png)
Kris Dabadie
SENIOR INSIGHTS DIRECTOR
“Take time to celebrate quiet miracles that seek no attention.” – John O’Donohue
![Tennyson Bush](https://www.heartandmind.us/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/TennysonB-2022-square.png)
Tennyson Bush
SENIOR SOLUTIONS ASSOCIATE
![Jackie Humphreys](https://www.heartandmind.us/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Jackie-2016-square.png)
Jackie Humphreys
SENIOR SOLUTIONS MANAGER
“The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched–they must be felt with the heart.” – Helen Keller
![Royal Smith](https://www.heartandmind.us/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Royal-2017-square.png)
Royal Smith
CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER
“Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.” – Arthur Ashe
![Cara Boxer](https://www.heartandmind.us/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Cara-2021-square.png)
Cara Boxer
DIRECTOR, Marketing + Creative Services
“Creativity is intelligence having fun.” – Albert Einstein
![Stephanie Reynolds](https://www.heartandmind.us/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Stephanie-2022-square.png)
Stephanie Reynolds
HUMAN RESOURCES MANAGER
“Be yourself, everyone else is already taken.” – Oscar Wilde
![Wendy Hoffman](https://www.heartandmind.us/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Wendy-2017-square.png)
Wendy Hoffman
BILLING + ACCOUNTS MANAGER
“Show me the money!” – Jerry Maguire, Jerry Maguire
![Jim Hoskins, Ph.D](https://www.heartandmind.us/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Jim-2015-square.png)
Jim Hoskins, Ph.D
EXECUTIVE ADVISOR
“Upon the fields of friendly strife are sown the seeds that on other days, on other fields, will bear the fruits of victory.” – General Douglas MacArthur
![Noel Maldonado](https://www.heartandmind.us/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Noel-M-2022-square.png)
Noel Maldonado
IT MANAGER
“There is nothing wrong with a good fight. Just remember, the man of tomorrow is forged by his battles today.” – Lex Luthor, Smallville
Meet our Healthcare Consultants
![Shawn Wade, Ph.D](https://www.heartandmind.us/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/Shawn-2015-square.png)
Shawn Wade, Ph.D
HEALTHCARE CONSULTANT
![Melissa Rajan](https://www.heartandmind.us/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/Melissa-2015-square.png)
Melissa Rajan
HEALTHCARE CONSULTANT
Meet our Bench of Strategists
![Kristi Diaz](https://www.heartandmind.us/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Kristi-D-2017-square.png)
Kristi Diaz
STRATEGIST
“Vulnerability is the birthplace of innovation, creativity and change.” – Brene Brown
![Karen Hillis-Skipper](https://www.heartandmind.us/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Karen-HS-2023-square.png)
Karen Hillis-Skipper
STRATEGIST
“The task of the intellect is to make the familiar strange and the strange familiar.” – Georg Simmel
![Katie Plocheck-Hunt](https://www.heartandmind.us/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Katie-2019-square.png)
Katie Plocheck-Hunt
STRATEGIST
“Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist.” – Pablo Picasso
![Whitney Donaldson](https://www.heartandmind.us/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/WhitneyD-2022-square.png)
Whitney Donaldson
STRATEGIST
![Mike Schmidt](https://www.heartandmind.us/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/MikeS-2022-square.png)
Mike Schmidt
STRATEGIST
“Do the best you can until you know better. Then when you know better, do better.” – Maya Angelou
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