Daniel Hintz, CXE

Founder & Chief Experience Strategist

Daniel Hintz is a catalytic community builder, developer, and strategist who helps communities transform assets into experiences that drive economic vitality, cultural relevance, and long-term prosperity. As Founder and Chief Experience Strategist of Velocity Group, he integrates placemaking, economic development, experiential design, and storytelling to create destinations people choose, remember, and return to. Over the past two decades, Daniel has worked with more than 75 communities across North America, helping public, private, and nonprofit partners align people, purpose, and place around a shared vision. His interdisciplinary approach is shaped by experience in entrepreneurship, arts and culture, education, public policy, tourism, and real estate development—bringing a systems-thinking perspective to complex community and organizational challenges.

Sandy Wright, M.A., PCC

Sandy helps transform vision into action by building the relationships, partnerships, and momentum that move communities and organizations forward. With more than 40 years of experience spanning placemaking, community engagement, business development, project management, and organizational change, she brings a unique ability to connect people, ideas, and resources around a shared purpose. Working across nonprofit, public, educational, and private-sector environments, Sandy guides complex initiatives from concept to implementation. She excels at aligning stakeholders, facilitating collaboration, and creating the conditions for meaningful and lasting impact. As a Professional Certified Coach (PCC), Sandy brings a collaborative, strengths-based approach to leadership development and stakeholder engagement.

Kassie Misiewicz

As Director of Alignment, Kassie helps transform vision into execution by ensuring the people, processes, and systems that power Velocity remain connected and moving forward. She oversees the operational infrastructure that supports our work, coordinating priorities, streamlining workflows, and creating the conditions for teams and projects to succeed. Kassie helps keep initiatives on track while supporting seamless collaboration across clients, partners, and project teams. She manages key administrative and client-facing functions, including contracts, invoicing, scheduling, project logistics, and internal operations, ensuring every engagement is supported with clarity, consistency, and care. Kassie holds a Master’s degree from Arizona State University and a Bachelor’s degree from the University of Notre Dame.

Amy Bell

Raised in Arkansas politics, studied in arts, and experienced in small business operations, Amy Kelley Bell is not a typical design consultant. Before moving to Missoula, Montana, Amy and her husband, Chef Matt Bell, owned and operated South on Main, an award-winning fine dining restaurant and live music venue in Little Rock, Arkansas.

Amy’s diverse experience in campaign and event management, PR and marketing, hospitality and design, and communications and operations allows her to take a holistic approach with her design work. She is able to balance her clients’ creative and pragmatic needs to provide both macro-level strategies and detailed plans for execution and success.

Aron Shelton

At the heart of every successful place-based initiative lies a robust digital engagement strategy, and for over a decade, Aron has been at the forefront of crafting these strategies for initiatives across the nation. His multifaceted expertise is not just limited to conceptualizing digital strategies; it extends to the tangible realm of website development and graphic design.

In addition to his work as a consultant and independent contractor, Aron is the digital architect of Northwest Arkansas’ talent attraction and retention efforts at the Northwest Arkansas Council—equipping him with a deep understanding of stakeholder engagement across the broadest spectrum of community touchpoints.