About Us

"Clarity is the next best thing to certainty".  Our team of experts focus on helping your team identify and work on what's most important. Our service includes hands-on, interactive, and comprehensive consultation to help identify strategic opportunities for breakthrough growth and profitability.  We focus on you and our only desire is your success.  Our methodology embraces Purpose, People, Process and Problem-solving to achieve new levels of performance---Breakthrough with us!

Strategy is about foresight--envisioning the future and what is most important to create competitive advantage. Our Strategy Development process drives clarity, focus and alignment within the organization from top leadership to the front-line.  Our comprehensive method includes strategy facilitation, plan documentation with timelines and milestones, along with a cadence of review process to drive action and accountability. We also offer  a suite of quality products/tools with coaching, as needed, that will help you get there quickly and  smoothly. That’s how we ensure your success.

Mission, Vision and Values – You can tell a lot about a company by its mission, vision and values.  Are they merely words on the wall or are they taught and lived within the organization? Don’t have these? Now might be a good time to create the direction and context your organization needs . A good mission states why the organization exists.  It represents its purpose to exist.  Vision elaborates where your organization is headed---it's future destination.  Values are your cultural norms and provides insight on how people are treated and the fundamental beliefs around stakeholder behavior- from the boardroom to the front-line.  Mission, Vision and Values: its what drives a company to do what it does.

OUR MISSION: To guide leaders and teams to strive for breakthrough performance while developing the business skills and processes that enable new levels of business and team performance.

OUR VISION: To be the very best at inspiring positive strategic change in organizations

OUR VALUES:

We believe all positive interaction begins with mutual respect and integrity.  We work everyday to be the very best at these.  Beyond these baseline attributes we value:

Creativity- exploring and finding new, innovative product, services and work methods

Service- Providing clients and partners with the best possible service by being invested, available and committed.

Kindness- Work and life can be hard.  We can strive for great results, have high expectations and be human at the same time.

Excellence- We reach and stretch knowing that we will never reach perfection but we can be a little better every day

Belief- we believe people are capable and competent and that any individual/team can achieve greatness

Strategic Framework- Every organization should know how it creates value for the customer.  Developing your winning Value Proposition is a fundamental element of strategy.  Strategic frameworks should include an environmental scan that take a big picture view of the markets, customers, industry and political dynamics as well as supply chain considerations---asking what external opportunities and risks should we consider?  In developing strategy you should also review your key business systems and processes from innovation to delivery and after sale service.  As a part of your strategic planning you should identify a balanced set of key metrics, where only a few of the metrics are financial in nature.  These key metrics should describe a "healthy, thriving organization. Ultimately, the framework should lead to breakthrough strategies--the three to five big picture objectives that will enable new levels of business performance.

Executive Team- HSM PerformX was founded by Steven M. Hirt in 2020 following a successful career in both industry and business services.  Prior to founding HSM Steve was an executive leader for The Village Companies.  Steve provided strategic insight and planning to the operating companies within The Village.  Steve also founded Optima Associates, a strategic and operations advisory firm in 2003.  Optima was acquired by The Village in 2018.  Prior to Optima, Steve was president of the industrial business unit of Performa Inc., an architectural, engineering and planning firm..  Steve also held various  CFO, VP of Finance, Operations Management and Continuous Improvement roles in a variety of industries.  He brings a big picture view to planning while ensuring there is enough detail and clarity to ensure success.  Steve works with leadership to the front-line to ensure alignment, understanding and the standard work required for success.  Through his career Steve has lead over 70 strategic development processes for companies ranging in size from $20MM to multi-billion in a variety of industries and organization types. 

Steve has surrounded himself with other strategic and business consultants that appreciate the power of continuous improvement, team, and standard work processes to drive success.  All of our executive consultants have a passion for service, continuous improvement and demonstrable client success.