Who We Are

From the start of her career, HEC founder and CEO Donna DeFalco knew there was a problem. HEC was in its infancy, a business Donna was building from her kitchen table while raising her three sons. She had a growing list of clients, things were going well, but she found herself increasingly unsettled: There was a need for programming that was disproportionate to the number of people being served.

“The people who most needed this kind of care, myself included, were the ones least able to receive it,” Donna recalls.  “I would finish a session with a client and run into the cleaning staff on the way out, suffering from MSK issues from the demands of their jobs, and I thought, I need to bring this work to them. And I know who can join me to do it. So that’s when ‘she’ became ‘we’.”

Another issue was the limited scope of the programming sought by the corporate sphere at the time. “The late ‘70s and ‘80s were a different world when it came to wellness,” says Donna. Our team had bigger ideas. HEC embraced a balance of Eastern and Western practices, a holistic view to benefit people of all demographics, practices addressing not merely the current concerns of the day but also helping people to sustain their wellbeing inside and out. The challenge was on to bring this philosophy and campaign to the larger public. The results spoke for themselves. Client by client, company by company, demand grew for the unique deliverables HEC provided.

As the HEC collective of professionals expanded and diversified, so did the communities it served. The same team of practitioners overseeing programming for Fortune 500 companies were also onsite at Ground Zero, treating first responders in the wake of the tragic attacks of 9/11. Campaigns and events were curated for global media leaders, for the MTA, all with the same dedication, empathy and attention to detail.

What do you need to be well? How can HEC help you? Those are questions we’ll never stop asking.

It’s been over 40 years since that kitchen table revelation. HEC is working worldwide, constantly innovating to not only provide our clients with the wellness programs you need, when you need it, but to put the keys to your continued wellbeing into your hands.

At HEC, our superpower is to show you yours.