Team
What makes us different than your typical “agency or consulting firm”? Here is the difference – we don’t have a huge staff that is always on the payroll. When you hire us, you hire just the right people you need. We are professional, on point creators and contributors. This way, you keep the specialization and we keep your costs down. Once a direction, need, or project is identified, one or several of our team members will work tirelessly to get your work done on time and in budget.
Dave Grout
President
Un-knots the craziest organizational hairballs and helps to re-configure the culture, brand, direction and operational toolbox until it functions like a Swiss watch.
Quote: “If you can’t take time to do the little things for people, then you really are not doing the big things!”
Tree: Ironwood
Heidi Loebs
Operations Manager
If you give her “words” she makes a process. Give her “numbers” and out comes an equation. When given a task, she organizes it with spreadsheets, tracks it with check lists and completes it with attention to detail.
Quote: “You can never get a cup of tea large enough, or a book long enough to suit me.” – C. S. Lewis
Tree: Dwarf apple
Abby Logan
Creative Director, Website & Design
Abby is a generalist: a multi-tool marketer with experience in a variety of areas. Page design for a professional portfolio? She can do it. SEO and website updates? She’s your girl. Social media strategy and analytics? Right here. Abby does a little bit of everything with an emphasis on the work that makes your brand look its best.
Quote: “Beauty is not caused. It is.” – Emily Dickinson
Tree: Tulip poplar
Elli Rauch
Content Specialist
Never settling for filler content, Elli works hard to craft material that captures clients’ missions. She’s a dynamic, quick learner, adapting quicker than a chameleon to each project’s individual needs alongside the team.
Quote: “It doesn’t matter what room you walk into, it matters how you walk into it. You represent the presence of God.” – Unknown
Tree: Sugar maple
Kenny Kelly
Project/Data Specialist
Gift him with SEO assignments, he’ll weave a web of optimized content. Hand him numbers, he’ll craft a story. Entrust him with new software, he’ll revolutionize your office technology. Assign him research, he’ll uncover gems of insight. Kenny is a tech and data wizard!
Quote: “Never fear a storm, learn to dance in the rain” – Hunter Knott
Tree: Oak
Ryan Srogi
Executive Strategist
Ryan’s excels in asking the right questions (hard, “dumb”, and thought provoking) to understand each client’s perspective. He creates a compelling vision, which often requires people to do hard things and push through discomfort. In the end, he knows on the other side is winning, blessing, and new territory gained.
Quote: “Fortune favours the bold.” – Latin Proverb
Tree: Oak
Madison Cowman
Director of Communications
Passionate about transformative storytelling, Madison applies six-plus years of experience in higher education and nonprofit communication to string together words in a consistent, clear, and creative way. Whether its language for social media, blogs, press releases, newsletters, or print pieces, she will ensure your copy is not only purposeful but powerful.
Quote: “It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena…” Theodore Roosevelt
Tree: Golden larch
Jessica Hauck
Systems Manager
A data driver, organizer, creator of processes, and the person who asks “why?” and “when?” right from the beginning. Not only can she find the problem, she knows how to fix it three different ways depending on the desired outcomes needed. She’s brilliant and needs her own pocket protector because she is so sharp.
Quote: “If you see something beautiful in someone, speak it.”
Tree: Red Maple
Justin Farrell
Web Builder / Designer
A man who specializes in everything digital and loves ensuring that brands are making the best use of their websites, search engine ranking, and social media presence. His art / design / technical savvy is amazing. The true trifecta of the true meaning of “Webmaster”!
Quote: “You must be the change you wish to see in the world.” —Gandhi
Tree: Juniper
Emma Bowyer
Systems Support
She’s the tension between being in a foxhole and running like a fox. Why a foxhole? Emma is a United States Marine. She served in Japan and can take down her target (and any projects) in less than a minute. Run like a fox? That’s how she gets a project done. Quick, effortlessly, and without you knowing she was on it.
Quote: “Society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in.” – Greek Proverb
Tree: Camphorwood
Kiara Wolland
Social Media Strategist
With a laptop as her trusty sidekick and an array of ideas in her mind, Kiara is the embodiment of creativity and communication. She’s the one you turn to when you need someone to not only understand your vision but to amplify it into something extraordinary.
Quote: “It’s kinda fun to do the impossible.” – Walt Disney
Tree: Oil Palm
Allyson Hiles
Social Media Strategist
From brainstorming wild ideas to diving into data like a treasure hunt, Ally’s on a mission to make scrolling through feeds feel like a rollercoaster ride of excitement. She’s passionate about creativity and developing memorable online experiences.
Quote: “Keep your face always toward the sunshine and shadows will fall behind you.” – Walt Whitman
Tree: Palm Tree
Peter Heneveld
Videographer
He makes flat screens come to life. He specializes in 3D animation, photorealistic 3D rendering, UAV aerial cinematography, motion design, virtual product beautification, 3D virtual reality & 360 video, color grading all to tell a story. Pixels ask him what to do!
Quote: “The value of a life is always determined by how much of it was given away.”
Tree: Monterey Cypress
Kyle White
Videographer
Strongest guy on the team – Seriously, check out his stuff:
Quote: “Don’t let your schooling get in the way of your education.”
Tree: Sequoia
Grant Beachy
Photographer
Honestly the most versatile visual story teller in the land. He is a light wrangler and a personality portrait perfectionist. He make anyone feel like a model and a best friend at the same time. Truly gifted in capturing the heart of the story and the smile that tells it.
Quote: “Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring two pence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it.”
Tree: Maple
Stephen Daniels
Financial Analyst
When it comes to crunching the numbers, Steven is your man. He helps clients accomplish financial objectives by assessing financial situations, developing and presenting financial strategies and plans, and monitoring changes in financial status and life circumstances.
Quote: “Impact = Hard work + integrity + intent”
Tree: Ponderosa Pine
Pat Loebs
Technical Writer
Basically Pat is a word rock star: someone who pursues excellence and desires the best in others, a team player who lifts together with the rest of the team, who is humble and big-hearted and armed with equally big ideas. Wordsmith and rebel with a clause.
Quote: “Work hard in silence. Let your success be your noise.”
Tree: Elm
Leslie Kiel
Creative Writer / Content Generator
Leslie is a self-proclaimed loquacious logophile. She’s passionate about writing that paints a picture and gives you pause, running for hours on end, and soaking up joy amidst life’s chaos (which is usually spearheaded by her three, dauntless children).
Quote: “Happiness is a journey, not a destination.” – Alfred D. Souza
Tree: Willow