DESIGN ETHOSBeautiful design through radical simplification.
By focusing on problem-solving, elegant design and simplification, we create building products that are beautiful and intuitive to use. Our products add value to our clients' lives and help them realise their creative visions, and simplify use and installation.
Simple | Beautiful | Possible
Who Are We?
At Heka Hoods, we live our Core Values every day - working at Heka Hoods requires a focus on care and craftsmanship from the entire team - read more about our Core Values below
A nationally recognised business that is locally owned and operated, started right here on the Sunshine Coast with a great growth trajectory
We pride ourselves on personal and professional diversity - we all come from a range of backgrounds and this makes us a stronger business and team
Focus on continual improvement and development - we strive to develop and promote staff from within the business, ensuring opportunities for upskilling, training and learning
We care — about what we do, how we do it, how our customers use our products and the experience of everyone who comes in contact with the business
Builder: Truline Contructions | Photographer: Condor Creative
DESIGN ETHOSCreate beautiful lines, simply.
HEKA HOODSOur CEO.
As the CEO and Founder of Heka Hoods, Yvette Kordick’s mission is to bring beautiful design and Australian innovation to the world.
As the visionary behind Heka Hoods’ business and architectural sunhood system Yvette Kordick’s journey began with her passion for design and entrepreneurial spirit. Combining her design, marketing, and business management expertise, she pursued her vision of creating an iconic Australian brand. Now 10 years later, Heka Hoods is a thriving Australian design & manufacturing business. Striving to continually innovate and scale the business, Yvette looks to the global marketplace and new product design for the future of Heka Hoods.
Yvette’s personal vision lies in making the world a more beautiful place. She expresses this through her business Heka Hoods whose “why” is to “create beautiful lines, simply”. As the founder and CEO of Heka Hoods Yvette inspires beautiful design by focusing on the art of possibility, where the business’s products are centred around solving problems, and adding value to client’s lives, helping them better realise their creative visions as well as simplify use and installation. Everything created by Heka Hoods has an emphasis on beauty, everything, must look and work beautifully.
Yvette embodies a transformational leadership philosophy, constantly looking to improve her leadership through literature, podcasts, and mentors. Her leadership is grounded in trust and transparency, creating a respectful and appreciative workplace which centres around the company’s core values.
HEKA HOODSCore Values.
We are new, different and diverse.
We are pioneers and explorers on an exciting journey. We come from different professions, trades, backgrounds and cultures. Bringing our differences together drives new ways of thinking.
We simplify.
We create beauty through ingenious simplicity. We are minimalist in all parts of the business – our style, design, branding, products, communications and processes.
We are elegant.
Everything we do is beautiful, fully resolved, easy to use and intuitive.
We are kind, friendly, respectful and empathetic.
We have humility and are gracious. We operate with integrity. We seek first to understand. We ask questions. We put the business/team’s needs before our own personal drivers. We talk it out. We practice creative co-operation. We have high ethical standards. We are interested in long term goals and reputation over short term gains.
We love solving problems and finding solutions.
We see problems as opportunities and the basis for creation and invention. We ask questions, seek clarification, focus and listen, then think about the "how".
We delight our customers.
We listen to our customers and reflect their needs. The customer comes first. We aim to give customers an exceptional experience.
Our focus is quality.
We deliver quality products and services – "we get it right". We always do our best and strive to be great.
We are considered.
We think things through before we act. We try things out. We are always curious.
We operate with integrity and discipline.
We are accountable to our customers and each other. We seek to co-operate and have high ethical standards.
We embrace change and drive improvement.
We are always seeking to be better, to grow, to evolve. We look at things differently and from different perspectives, challenge ourselves and stretch ourselves to be better. We are interested in possibilities, as possibilities bring future opportunities.
