ABOUT
The Mission: 3H3 Leadership, LLC partners with businesses, nonprofits, and communities to inspire, develop, and support a robust culture of high-impact, strategically-focused servant leadership.
3H3 Leadership, LLC is a veteran-owned small business.
The Name: "3H3"
The “3H3” in our name symbolizes our founder's name, Howard H. Hoege III…but not for a self-aggrandizing purpose. From our founder:
Howard H. Hoege Jr & Sr
"My grandfather – my father’s father – passed away when my Dad was 11 years old. My grandmother never remarried. She raised my father and my aunt – his younger sister – in northeast Philadelphia by working as a cashier at the University of Pennsylvania bookstore. Nobody on my father’s side of the family had ever gone to college. My Dad was the first.
When I was born, my father named me “the 3rd” not to carry on the family name, but to honor his own father.
I have grown up knowing that I am – my name is – a tribute to someone else. When I founded this firm to inspire, develop, and support servant leadership across all types of businesses, organizations, and communities, I chose the name 3H3 as a reminder: it’s not about me."
Howard H. Hoege III
Mr. Howard H. Hoege III is the Founder of 3H3 Leadership, LLC. Hoege is currently the President and CEO of The Mariners' Museum and Park - America's National Maritime Museum - in Newport News, Virginia.
Hoege began his career serving for fourteen years in the U.S. Army, first as an infantry officer and later as a JAG officer. A 1995 Ranger School graduate, Hoege served as an infantry platoon leader, aide-de-camp, and detachment commander in the First Cavalry Division, Fort Hood, TX. In 1999, the Army selected Hoege for the Funded Legal Education Program and three years later, he graduated with his law degree from the University of Virginia School of Law.
Just weeks after reporting to the 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault) as a JAG Officer, Hoege deployed in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom I (March 2003). In Iraq, he worked on international and operational law issues like rules of engagement and targeting. Hoege taught Iraqi criminal law to several Iraqi police academy classes and taught various aspects of international law to several Iraqi border guard academy classes. In late 2003, Hoege prosecuted his first courts-martial in a makeshift courtroom in Mosul, Iraq. Upon returning to Fort Campbell, KY, Hoege became the 101st Airborne Division’s senior prosecutor. In Hoege’s final assignment in the JAG Corps, he served on the criminal law faculty at the U.S. Army’s JAG School.
Since leaving the Army in 2008, Hoege taught a seminar in the Law of War at the University of Virginia School of Law. He also served as an investigative counsel on the staff of the Senate Armed Services Committee from 2009 – 2010 and was one of the authors of the SASC’s 2010 report, “Inquiry Into the Role and Oversight of Private Security Contractors in Afghanistan.”
Hoege left the SASC to become the Assistant Dean for Admissions and Strategic Initiatives at the University of Virginia’s Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy. There, he taught a one-credit elective to graduate students on strategic planning and National Security policy, and a full course on the legal and moral dimensions of public policy. Hoege regularly led workshops and seminars for a variety of organizations on topics of leadership and national security.
Hoege is a 1994 graduate of the United States Military Academy, West Point, where he was the First Captain of the Corps of Cadets. Hoege lives in Newport News, VA with his wife and two children. Cinda runs White Birch Events, a company she founded over 7 years ago.