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Bryant Group Places Chief Development and Strategy Officer at HeartSpring

Dallas-based executive search and leadership consulting firm Bryant Group conducted a nationwide search led by the firm’s CEO Sally Bryant, resulting in Heather Hogan of Colwich, Kansas securing the role of Chief Development and Strategy Officer at Heartspring.

Hogan is a highly accomplished executive who is well known and respected in the Wichita business and nonprofit communities and has been recognized numerous times for her remarkable achievements throughout her illustrious career. She currently works as a consultant for the prestigious Kansas-based Swanson House fundraising consulting firm, serving numerous clients on multi-million dollar campaigns. Hogan previously led a dozen programs and operational service lines at Envision, Inc. in Wichita, including the Envision Foundation and all of Envision’s service lines supporting blind and visually-impaired people. Her teams numbered 170+ and the impact of her leadership there will be felt far into the future.

“Heather’s breadth of experience and collaborative mindset will be invaluable as we work to expand pediatric neurodevelopment care across our region. Her proven ability to develop innovative partnerships, programs and change-making opportunities for donors aligns perfectly with our vision for growth,” said Dan Soliday, President and CEO of Heartspring.

Hogan’s leadership responsibilities have proven her to be an exceptional fundraiser and all-around business leader. In the fundraising program at Envision, she increased charitable dollars from about $300,000 annually to nearly $24 million in her time there. She is a recognized expert at fund development and strategic leadership, as evidenced by the multitude of organizations that have retained her as a consultant to partner with them in their own strategic plans and capital campaigns.

In her new position, Hogan will elevate Heartspring’s development program and initiate a capital campaign in support of the organization’s biomedical facilities and programs expansion. Heartspring has recently announced the purchase of two buildings in the heart of Wichita’s new downtown biomedical corridor.

“Heartspring has long been recognized as a leader in educating and supporting individuals with neurodevelopmental and intellectual disabilities,” said Ms. Hogan. “The passion and dedication with which Heartspring delivers its programs and services highlight the deep understanding and empathy extended to the individuals and families it serves. The opportunity to further this mission, supporting some of the most vulnerable members of our community, is both rewarding and heartwarming. I am truly excited to contribute in a meaningful way and add value to the incredible work being done.”

Historically, Heartspring was instrumental in helping get the US Congress to pass the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act in 1975. This act acknowledges that all children have the right to a public education and mandates that public schools provide free and appropriate public education to children with disabilities.

Heartspring was first known as The Institute of Logopedics and was one of the first institutions to provide services to children with disabilities, starting in the 1930s. Heartspring is now celebrating its 90th year integrating evidence-based therapies into innovative support models that help children with neurodevelopmental disabilities realize their full potential in communication, social interactions, mobility and daily living.

Heartspring is biomedically focused and offers two services, a Therapeutic Residential & Day School and Pediatric Outpatient Clinic. The Therapeutic Residential & Day School is one of only a handful of organizations in the United States that provides therapeutic special education to students with a primary neurodevelopmental disorder of high-support-needs autism, plus intellectual disability. The Pediatric Outpatient Clinic offers children with neurodevelopmental delays the ability to develop skills for communication, to learn to eat a variety of foods and to develop fine and gross motor skills.

Advancing Great Leadership
Bryant Group, based in Dallas, Texas, and with associates located across the United States, specializes in executive search and leadership coaching for higher education, healthcare and nonprofits with an emphasis on advancement leaders and other executives. In 1988, Bryant Group founder, Chris Bryant, started one of the country’s first search firms specializing in philanthropy recruitment. Now under the leadership of CEO Sally Bryant, the woman-owned firm has a long history of recruiting, developing and coaching great leaders. Bryant Group has impacted more than 10,000 leaders and served nearly 300 organizations across the US and Canada.