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