About Heart of Business, Inc.
Heart of Business, Inc. began life as Success by Design in 1999, an enterprise in which Mark Silver helped entrepreneurs create marketing that felt clean, was effective, and yet was authentic and felt like them.
It soon became obvious that designing marketing materials was much more about helping the client access and trust his or her heart, than it was about the design process. Working with an experienced mentor coach, Anne Sagendorph, CEO of Support Systems for Success, provided a grounding in coaching, and what a successful practice can look like.
Along came Sufi business healing
With the introduction of Sufi-based healing work from the Jaffe Institute (now the University of Spiritual Healing & Sufism), the path forward became clear and Heart of Business was born in August, 2001.
In the years since, an entrepreneurial heart-wisdom curriculum has been developed, based on finding where very specific spiritual teachings are present in nitty-gritty business practices.
The result has allowed those who are making a real difference in the world, those who are up to something extraordinary, to create effective and profitable businesses whose actions and presence reflect the same love and caring that they find in the work they love most.
It’s hard to believe, but you can find love in the daily actions of marketing, sales, systems, strategic planning, and other necessary business actions. We have found that every act of business can be an act of love, and in fact it’s the only kind of world we want to live in.
Our Team
Our Commitment to Diversity
The team at Heart of Business is committed to honoring diversity on our team and within our clientele. We respect all type of diversity including, but not limited to, ethnicity, race, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, body type or size, religion and abilities. We want to live in a world that recognizes the inherent strengths that come from different viewpoints, backgrounds cultures and experiences. As a team, we have taken on a commitment to examining our unconscious biases, and want to work towards an equitable, peaceful, just world.
In regards to race and ethnicity, we reject the idea of “color-blind” and instead want to live in a “color rich” world, where each experience helps to weave the tapestry of strength and love. As a white-owned company, with a majority white team, we’re going to miss seeing things that would be obvious to someone with different experiences. If you are a reader, client or colleague, and you ever see us expressing unconscious bias in a way that we seem unaware of, we invite you to tell us.
If you look at our team and do not see your experience, identity, or background reflected (or poorly reflected) and believe that you would be an asset to our team and our work, then when we have openings we especially invite you to apply and bring your strengths to our team.