ST. JOSEPH, MO

Meierhoffer Funeral Home & Crematory

At Meierhoffer Funeral Home & Crematory, our work places us alongside people during some of life’s most difficult moments. How we show up in those moments matters. 

Through our 3D Journey, our team reflected on the values, purpose, and relationships shaping who we are and who we are becoming. A common language emerged around faith, family, compassion, service, love, integrity, and excellence.

Together, we are building a culture that lets faith guide how we serve, cares for people like family, leads with compassion, loves people well, follows through with integrity, and pursues excellence in all we do.

This is the culture we are building, and we are looking for people who want to help us live it out.

Discover how more than a century of service shaped Meierhoffer’s approach to caring for families.

OUR 3D JOURNEY

From Conversation to Culture

Culture is always taking shape. The question is whether it is being left to chance or shaped with intention. Healthy culture grows when leaders create room for honest reflection, meaningful dialogue, and shared clarity about who they are, why they exist, and how they want people to experience the organization. That clarity then becomes a common language that guides decisions, relationships, behaviors, and accountability.

Through the 3D Journey, the Meierhoffer team reflected on the values and purpose already present within their organization, identified the themes that consistently emerged, and began translating that shared identity into a more intentional cultural framework for their team and the people they serve.

Scott Meierhoffer, CEO of Meierhoffer Funeral Home & Crematory, was one of the early business leaders to embrace the vision of bringing 3D to St. Joseph and helping build a stronger, more connected community.

OUR IDENTITY

Defining What Defines Us

During the 3D Journey, Meierhoffer teammates reflected on the values, character traits, and behaviors that define who they are and who they aspire to become. As those individual voices came together, a shared language of identity began to emerge.

The word cloud captures that collective voice and serves as a set of identity anchors—helping keep the Meierhoffer Team connected to the purpose, values, and identity shaping its leadership and culture.

Identity answers the question, "Who are we?"
Purpose answers the question, "Why are we here?"

OUR PURPOSE

Building a Foundation, Together

Purpose begins with people.

Through the 3D Journey, each Meierhoffer teammate first clarified his or her individual purpose. Those personal purpose statements became the building blocks from which the team’s shared foundational purpose emerged.

Like individual bricks laid together to form a strong foundation, each leader contributed his or her own language about why they serve in the organization. Together, those individual voices were synthesized into a single foundational purpose statement that now guides the department’s leadership, culture, and future.

21 Individual Purpose Statements
One Shared Foundational Purpose
“To let our Faith lead the way as we care for people like Family, show Compassion, offer Service with Love and Integrity, and enact a process of Excellence that helps people move toward hope.”

OUR CULTURE

The Meierhoffer “It” Factor

With identity clarified and a foundation of purpose established, team Meierhoffer began defining the culture it intends to build.

The team’s seven Cultural Distinctives express what makes their team uniquely them. Created from the voices of its own people, they provide a shared leadership language and a practical blueprint for how the team leads, serves, and works together every day.

SEVEN CULTURAL DISTINCTIVES
01
Faith Leads the Way
We are people of faith who let what we believe guide how we lead, help, and serve others.
02
Care Like Family
We are family-minded people who listen, work together, and care for others as we would want our own families cared for.
03
Show Courageous Compassion
We are compassionate people who notice others, encourage them, and respond with kindness.
04
Ready to Serve
We are committed servants who respect people by responding to their needs with action.
05
Love People Well
We are loving people who build honest relationships and bring appropriate joy and humor to the meaningful work we share.
06
Stay Dependable
We are people of integrity who earn trust by following through, taking responsibility, and persevering when things get difficult.
07
Grow Toward Hope
We are lifelong learners who pursue excellence, grow in wisdom, and help ourselves and others move forward with hope.

Together, these seven Cultural Distinctives articulate the Meierhoffer team’s purpose-based identity and guide the leadership behaviors its people live out every day.

Become part of a team guided by faith, committed to caring for people like family, serving with compassion and integrity, and pursuing excellence in every interaction.

Meierhoffer Funeral Home & Crematory is a Partner in Purpose of The Joseph Company’s St. Joseph Chapter—a coalition of organizations striving together to build better leaders, stronger teams, and a life-giving community culture that benefits all.