Our Story

Growth Dynamics was founded in 2001 by Charlie Hauck.  After spending eight years working as a Sales Trainer in the Sandler method and 2 years consulting to Ernst & Young, Charlie started Growth Dynamics to deliver his ideas in a more personal way.  Charlie’s experience convinced him that successful coaching, training and adoption of new behaviors takes time.

By utilizing a more personal touch in the communication process, greater results can be achieved.  This is the philosophy that drives the firm today.

Growth Dynamics provides business development processes, executive coaching, strategic planning, and personnel assessment tools for its clients.

The team at Growth Dynamics believes our clients success is more important than our own.  We believe in a consistent, hands-on approach to the business challenges our clients are working through, and we always tackle these challenges mindful of the people involved.

When Leaders Reach a Turning Point

Here are some typical clients and reasons they engage us:

  • Business owners that are overwhelmed by the challenges of selling their products or services while also running their business.
  • Sales Directors that are are exasperated that some of their reps are killing it while others are just coasting
  • Hiring managers that are struggling to hire high-caliber business development people
  • Management teams that cannot find common ground on identifying the most pressing issues in the organization
  • Company Founders that have concluded that his or her skillset has reached its limit in leading their organization to higher growth
  • Executives that are overworked by the myriad of priorities and can’t gain control

Our Team

We are a team of experts that share your drive for success.

Sarah Waple

President, Trainer & Coach

Sarah Waple was named the President of Growth Dynamics in October of 2025 after holding titles of partner, general manager and assistant since 2017 plus offering marketing assistance in a part-time capacity as needed since 2001.

Prior to 2001, Sarah had been exposed to the work of communications and business development management though Charlie Hauck, past president of Growth Dynamics and father of Sarah, since he become a trainer, coach and mentor within the training space. Sarah was just a freshman in high school when Hauck founded Growth Dynamics in 1997 and that change in her father’s career impacted her in the most positive ways from there on out.

Like many of the clients she works with today, sales was not where she started her career, but where her path has led. Prior to joining Growth Dynamics full time in she spent time working and leading various communications, events and public relations offices in college athletics and youth sports. Her experiences within the world of athletics exposed her to just how important different types of communications styles impacted the reception of her messaging. Student-athletes and parents certainly need to hear messages and details very differently.

Sarah took her skills learned in selling, pitching stories and events to local and national media and selling everything from swim lessons to high-end experience, to work for a manufacturer’s rep agency outside of Philadelphia in a business development and assistant capacity.

When the opportunity arose to join Growth Dynamics full-time after caring for her grandmother on hospice for 11 months, she jumped. Sarah was able to blend all of her favorite aspects of her other roles- working with teams, assisting others in accomplishing their goals, working with her dad, managing operations and events and developing communications strategies for various businesses and positions.

As President, Sarah will continue the work Charlie started and trained her on for the last three decades.

Sarah holds a bachelor’s degree from the University of Pittsburgh in communications and a master’s degree from Marshall University in Athletics Administration. She resides in Kennett Square with her husband, two kids and three dogs. When not spreading the message of DISC you can find her on the sidelines, spectating or coaching, of her children’s activities or with her family on the slopes in Vermont.

Charlie Hauck

Founder, Trainer & Coach

Drawing on more than 25 years of experience working with leaders focused on both personal and professional growth, Charlie shares his experience, creativity and savvy in understanding his clients’ particular challenges. By respecting the differences in the wide variety of businesses and industries his clients represent, Charlie believes it is the people rather than any of their technologies that create the most lasting successes. By making that the foundation of all his work with both individuals and teams, Charlie’s clients have been successful in all types of industries and organizations, ranging from healthcare providers, manufacturing, distribution, non-profits and a diverse group of companies at all levels of the business world.

Past and current clients include both regional and national companies and organizations in the professional services, distribution, manufacturing and technology arenas. Growth Dynamics also has a wide range of experience in the utilization of instruments, assessments and processes to support hiring, selection and development of individuals and teams that make up successful or growing organizations.

Charlie and the Growth Dynamics team have become heavily committed to bringing their processes and experience to many different markets where the primary focus on human interaction is immensely important to growth and success.

Charlie’s pastime activities include hanging out with his grandchildren, travelling to the shore, skiing out west (4 knee surgeries later) and riding one of his many bicycles.

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