HeatherP Solutions

HeatherP Solutions

MBA

MN, US
Heather helps businesses drive business performance through employee performance. She does this by addressing work culture, breaking down silos, optimizing ways of working, and improving engagement.

Heather Polivka: Where Marketing expertise, HR proficiency and Operations know-how come together to create business success.

Heather founded HeatherP Solutions to work with progressive leaders of small and mid-sized businesses to accelerate revenue growth by creating work environments where people thrive. Her proven methodology focuses on driving business performance through employee performance. She does this by addressing workplace culture, breaking down silos, optimizing ways of working, manager training, and improving employee engagement.

Bottom line:  She unleashes the human potential within companies.  

A proven global leader, Heather knows the power of a purposeful brand experience that
reaches customers, communities, employees, and stakeholders. She has seen the impact it has because she's led these initiatives for some of the world's most recognized brands.

For nearly 12 years, she served as the critical link between Marketing and and Human Resources at Fortune 6 UnitedHealth Group, reporting into the Chief Officers for both. Her work helped to transform their culture, repair their reputation as a place to work, integrate 20+ acquired businesses, and localize their presence in culturally relevant
ways. Working with teams around the globe, she continually refined and re-imagined all the ways brand experience can impact people, processes, and profits.

If you are ready to think about what is possible for you, your people and your company, you are ready to engage with Heather!

Heather Polivka: Where Marketing expertise, HR proficiency and Operations know-how come together to create business success.

Heather founded HeatherP Solutions to work with progressive leaders of small and mid-sized businesses to accelerate revenue growth by creating work environments where people thrive. Her proven methodology focuses on driving business performance through employee performance. She does this by addressing workplace culture, breaking down silos, optimizing ways of working, manager training, and improving employee engagement.

Bottom line:  She unleashes the human potential within companies.  

A proven global leader, Heather knows the power of a purposeful brand experience that
reaches customers, communities, employees, and stakeholders. She has seen the impact it has because she's led these initiatives for some of the world's most recognized brands.

For nearly 12 years, she served as the critical link between Marketing and and Human Resources at Fortune 6 UnitedHealth Group, reporting into the Chief Officers for both. Her work helped to transform their culture, repair their reputation as a place to work, integrate 20+ acquired businesses, and localize their presence in culturally relevant
ways. Working with teams around the globe, she continually refined and re-imagined all the ways brand experience can impact people, processes, and profits.

If you are ready to think about what is possible for you, your people and your company, you are ready to engage with Heather!

Why most Culture & Engagement Work Fails...and What To Do

What is keeping CEOs, Leaders, Managers and Employees up at night?  How "how we work" will evolve? Employee burnout? Or trying to keep the best people working alongside you?

Culture and Employee Engagement has never been more important.

There is a lot of great information around culture and engagement. Leaders and managers understand that their approach to culture and engagement today is the key to retaining great people. Top performing CEOs prioritize culture and engagement....

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How to Create Sustainable Business Performance Thru Your Employees

Why do some companies thrive in good times and survive during the most turbulent times, while others experience greater peaks and valleys or struggle day-to-day?  How do some organizations cultivate a brand that people eat, sleep and breath, creating a competitive advantage in the marketplace, while others are....just a logo and color palette? 

If 2021 taught us anything, it is that many of our tried-and-true approaches to running our businesses and making decisions are...

Employees / WorkforceAudience ActivityEducational / Informative

You Say Po-Tay-To, I Say Po-Tah-To: 3 Ways Small Leadership Differences Hurt Your Business (& what

As we prepare for a post-pandemic world and a NEW "new normal" than the one we settled into throughout 2020, it is more important than ever that leaders are on the same page, singing from the same song sheet, in the same key to lead your business. 

 

What do your values look like in the NEW, new normal?  What do they sound like?  Feel like?  Are managers expected to manage people or work?  Or Both?  And How?  And...

Corporate CultureAudience ActivityEducational / Informative

Navigating the Still-Not-Quite-Post-Pandemic Work Experience: 3 Ideas

Our companies and employees are in a much different place then we were a year ago, and nowhere near what we described as normal two years ago.  The goal posts keep moving in the still-not-quite-post-pandemic United States.     

 Vaccine rollout is slowing.  The delta variant of COVID is growing. Productivity is maintaining or growing.  So is burnout.  Leaders want people in-office.  Employees want to maintain flexibility. ...

Employees / WorkforceAudience ActivityEducational / Informative

People-centric Managers outperform their peers...so why aren't there more?

-  75% of people leave their jobs because of their managers. 
-  70% of the difference in engagement across teams is due to the manager. 
-  We are in the midst of a Turnover Tsunami. 
-  A majority of managers don't feel trained, supported, or equipped to be people-leaders. In fact, studies show they are the least supported population of employees across most companies.  

Managers are the secret to business...
Employees / WorkforceAudience ActivityEducational / Informative

Innovation Doesn't Have To Be Difficult

Innovation is one of the top values espoused by the Fortune 500. And yet, go inside of most companies of all sizes, and you can hardly say they have a culture of innovation.

As humans, we love to brainstorm and create.  So what is thwarting our natural desire to innovate?  How are our work place practices set up to undermine our ability to innovate?  What are the conditions necessary to support innovation?  And why does it seem so difficult?

We...
InnovationAudience ActivityEducational / Informative