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Meet the Team

Here to Help You People-Power Your Organization

Leadership Development.
Talent Development.
Team Development.
Organizational Design.

For decades, we've approached HR as a strategic cornerstone, building teams, nurturing talent, and cultivating leadership to realize overarching goals. We address organizational design through multiple lenses encompassing strategy, brand, market positioning, culture, and technology. By leveraging these perspectives, we assist in developing robust, resilient organizations where employees are not just receptive but are enthusiastic about embracing change. We foster engagement and alignment, ensuring your organization achieves its fully people-powered potential.

Expertise

As a Strategic HR firm, we specialize in aligning HR practices with your business strategy. This involves talent assessment, leadership development, organizational design, and cultural transformation. That's a lot, but we have the experience and skills to deliver on that promise.

95

Years of Combined Leadership Experience

Our leadership team provides 95 years of combined experience in senior leadership and organizational design roles.  Such expertise, typically reserved for large corporations, is accessible to you, making us an invaluable asset for your organization's success.

3,000

Employees

That's the size of the largest company our CEO, Andrea Hill, ran. While there are larger companies out there, that's larger than 95% of companies in the US. So when we talk about organizational design, we have the experience to back it.

876

Assessments

That's the average number of professional development assessments we conduct per year. We are licensed practitioners of the most respected psychological testing tool suite for pre-employment assesssments, management and professional development, and team alignment.

10X

Capacity

Every company has internal policies, processes, and practices that are undermining your capacity, innovation, and quality. Let us show you how to unlock your organizational potential and unleash your ability to scale.

6+

Structures

Few leaders understand how many organizational design options are available to them. Whether your organization would be best served by hierarchical, flat, matrix, divisional, team-based, network, or hybrid structures depends on your operational and strategic goals and requirements. Put your organizational design in the service of your strategy.

Unlimited

Potential

Your potential for organizational transformation is virtually unlimited. Let us show you how to unlock the power of your people by empowering them through better alignment, visibility to corporate objectives, cultural support, professional development, and full engagement.

Where We're Located

We went virtual office in 2008, putting us closer to where our clients need us. That also means that long before the pandemic we'd mastered the art of working, collaborating, and managing remotely ... skills our clients have leaned on in this new era of work-from-home. We are experts in maximizing productivity, innovation, and employee satisfaction.

United Kingdom

Italy

Toronto

Chicago

Wisconsin

Boston

Albuquerque

North Carolina

Faces of Leadership

Kristin Kopaz
Sherri Burney
Karen Rice

Organizational strength begins with leaders who bring intelligence, focus, bias-to-action, passion, compassion, ego-strength, and a commitment to continuous growth to the job. That's all true of the leadership team you see here. We're not big on titles, and they don't really serve us, since we're constantly stepping out of our comfort zones to stretch and grow. 

What you don't see here is the rest of our organization, a group of incredibly talented people who come together every day to serve our customers and achieve our business goals. We really need a group photo, but considering how spread out we are across the world, we've had a hard time getting everyone in one place. We will though! Watch this space ...

Our History

  • Am image of a young man diving gleefully off the side of a boat in a large body of water

    Taking the Plunge

    July 3, 2007

    Andrea Hill decides she is done with being a corporate hired gun. She wants to help others build their businesses, and wants to build her own business in the process. So she takes the plunge and strikes out on her own to launch her first-ever startup.

  • A picture of a hallway in a shared office space building. You can see office furniture behind glass walls.

    Chicago Location

    July 2008

    Though Andrea and her family are still living in New Mexico, she and her wife plan to relocate back to the upper Midwest. She hires a few former employees and they take up shared office space downtown Chicago.

  • Hill Management Group Logo

    Hill Management Group

    July 5, 2007

    The corporate entity is named Hill Management Group, LLC. But Andrea structures it so she can form several different companies beneath it. Her goals for providing business growth services are expansive.

  • StrategyWerx Logo

    StrategyWerx Officially Launched

    October 2007

    The first brand is strictly a consulting brand, focused on business strategy, planning, and infrastructure development. Clients from Andrea's past lives in publishing, direct marketing, entertainment, and the jewelry industry start showing up.

  • Werx.Marketing Logo

    We Launch Our 2nd Brand

    May 2008

    Our client list is growing quickly, but the strategies we are developing for them demand digital marketing capabilities they do not have. So we launch Werx.Marketing to support more of our customers’ needs.

  • An image of a Wisconsin marsh surrounded by woods in autumn. The colors include a blue stream, green ground-cover and aquatic plant life, and orange, yellow, green and gold foliage on the trees.

    Moving Across the Country

    July 3, 2008

    The New Mexico house is sold and it's time to move! Andrea and her family pull up stakes in New Mexico and relocate to Wisconsin to be close to their extensive family.

  • An image of a computer monitor with many faces showing on a Zoom call

    Work-from-Home Begins

    November 2008

    Internet technology has improved dramatically and so have online collaborative tools. Andrea and her team reevaluate, and decide they could all do with less travel time to the office and more quality time on personal pursuits and with family. They give up the downtown Chicago office space and go  virtual.

  • MentorWerx logo

    MentorWerx 1.0

    January 2009

    The company is constantly approached by micro-business owners who want business advice. But StrategyWerx-level consulting is out of their budgets. So MentorWerx is launched initially as a way to package strategic advice in accessible formats for smaller business owners.

  • Image of an airplane coming in for a landing over a grassy landing strip with mountains in the background

    The Consulting Years

    2011-2019

    StrategyWerx draws in big contracts for Andrea to function as a rent-a-CEO for corporations, often in other countries. She does two long projects in Dubai, a few short projects in various countries, a project in Mexico, and another long project in Italy.

    She keeps Hill Management Group alive with small projects in each brand, but she’s mostly on the road and living out of a suitcase.

  • Image of movie theater marquee that says "The World is Temporarily Closed."

    Pandemic and Reassessment

    March 2020

    Andrea makes it out of Italy just before the world gets shut down for the pandemic. After a few weeks she actually unpacks her suitcase and spends a lot of time wondering what everyone else is wondering ... what will happen next?

  • An image of a woman watching a laptop screen on which Andrea Hill is making a presentation

    Being of Service

    March - December, 2020

    As small businesses are shaken to their foundations, the Werx Brands jump in and produce 45 free webinars in 32 weeks. Nearly all of these webinars draw hundreds of attendees. Andrea realizes that she wants to refocus her business on helping many businesses at a time grow, rather than focusing on one large project at a time. She also rediscovers the joys of staying home!

  • An image of a person looking through a magnification lens at a mountain in the distance

    A New Strategy is Defined

    January 2021

    With a year of disruption and hundreds of hours of listening to business owneres behind us, we develop a new overall strategy and a clearer focus for each brand.

  • A screen shot of the StrategyWerx website home page with the headline "Ready to Grow?"

    New Branding

    March 2021

    By March, all our brand websites have been updated with our new strategy and services, and we’re talking about our new offerings with clients.

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    First Software Partnership

    April 2021

    One of our new strategic pillars is to form meaningful partnerships with software companies serving our markets. We start this process by partnering with Keap CRM.

  • An image of a "We are hiring" sign in a business window

    Laying the Track Before the Train

    May 2021

    Now come the months of building the infrastructure to support our planned growth. We begin operationalizing our processes and hiring to the new strategy. If we’re going to grow this company, we’ll need a strong team and highly evolved processes!

  • Image of the Goldman Sachs 10,000 Small Businesses logo superimposed on a from-the-ground-up photo looking up through NYC skyscrapers

    Building Our Knowledge Base

    June 2021

    Andrea has grown and run medium-sized corporations many times, but she has never scaled a company from scratch. It’s time to build some new skills in preparation for our big plans. So she applies to the Goldman Sachs 10,000 Small Businesses Program and gets accepted for the program starting in July.

  • A Goldman Sachs 10,000 Small Businesses alumni badge

    A New, Powerful Growth Network

    December, 2021

    Andrea graduates from the Goldman Sachs 10ksb program, and the Werx Brands have access to an entirely new (and extensive) network.

    One condition of graduation is to develop a growth plan. The program gives Andrea some additional ideas for scaling that are not so service intensive. Andrea’s final project (a condition for graduation) is to introduce the concept of ProsperWerx.

  • An image of the ProsperWerx logo, a phoenix rising from a green circle

    One More Brand (and we're done!)

    April 2022

    By April, the details of the ProsperWerx brand are worked out and a new website is created. But we’re not promoting yet … it will be many months before the playbooks and tool kits envisioned in the ProsperWerx brands have been developed.

    We begin a process of extensive product development.

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    More Software Partnerships

    May - December, 2022

    To maintain true to our technology-agnostic philosophy, we evaluate and select several CRM, HR, martech and productivity software companies to partner with. We engage in an extensive period of training and certification to get our team up-to-speed.

  • MentorWerx logo

    MentorWerx 2.0

    December 2022

    StrategyWerx is taking on so much organizational design consulting that it makes sense to redirect MentorWerx energy to that sector. With ProsperWerx in place as the resource for downloads, playbooks, and self-directed training, MentorWerx is repositioned to what it is today.

  • HubSpot Platinum Partner Badge

    Rapid Progress on Software Partnership Front

    June 2023

    We tier up not once,  but twice in our first seven months as HubSpot partners — an unusually fast progress in the CRM space. We continue to add other software partners, train and certify.

Certs & Creds

Here are some of the combined credentials and experiences our team brings to our work.

  • Lean Six Sigma

  • Theory of Constraints

  • FGA (with Distinction)

  • ERP (multiple)

  • CRM (multiple)

Why We're Here

We are Business Growth Specialists. We help our clients fine-tune growth plans, align people and teams, streamline operations, empower and engage employees, and identify missing pieces of their growth puzzle.

We provide team and talent development for growth. As a Strategic HR firm, we differ significantly from typical HR, payroll, and compliance consultancies in our approach and focus. Those things are important! They're just not what we do.

Our focus is on aligning HR practices with your overall strategic goals. We are your strategic, proactive, HR partner, helping you drive organizational growth and succes.

If you need help identifying talent gaps, aligning teams for a more integrated approach, developing teams and talent, creating systems to support professional development,  and building a resilient culture for growth, you need MentorWerx.