Stratum was founded in 1987 in Cincinnati, Ohio. Its founder, Jerry Howard, started the company after spending over twenty years working for Dow Chemical and Avery International in sales, marketing and business management.

Jerry’s passion is helping people and organizations learn how to enjoy life and achieve success. He helps them accomplish this by using his experience and the information obtained from his assessment model, the Hartman Value Profile (HVP). The (HVP) is a powerful, proven approach to better understanding oneself, better matching up personal strengths with organizational needs, showing the areas that may need improvement to achieve success and providing specific coaching tips to help each person achieve their potential.

Stratum’s customers range from small and medium size organizations who need to operate more effectively to individuals who need to find out more about themselves in order to better relate to others and define and achieve their personal goals in life.

Jerry Howard has over twenty years of experience in successfully using the information generated by the (HVP) to accurately assess how individuals see the world and themselves and how this translates into their how they value people, things, systems and self. Armed with this information Jerry is able to effectively help organizations select, develop and coach people to improve their life, the organizational environment and achieve success.

• Reduced cost associated with hiring and turnover.
• Improvements in productivity and customer satisfaction.
• Improvement in the organizational culture/environment.
• Targeted personal development to where it will have the most impact.
• Higher employee morale.
• Improved capacity to deal with personal stress.