The People Behind Navigate Homes
Great homes come from good decisions made by people who care about the details. Meet the leaders and specialists behind the neighborhoods, designs and homes Navigate builds.
What Guides Us
Navigate Homes brings together people with different specialties, responsibilities and perspectives. What connects the work is a shared set of standards for how we plan, build, communicate and follow through.
Those standards are reflected in five core values: Proactive, Relentless, Quality-Driven, Accountable and Enriching. They shape how leadership makes decisions and how the work gets carried from the earliest planning stages through the day a homeowner receives the keys.
Our Core Values
Five values. Five leaders. Each one reflects a standard that shapes how Navigate plans neighborhoods, builds homes and works with the people who trust us to get them home.
Failure is not an option. That’s a mindset, not an outcome. We set the bearing, and we hold it.
The Midwest builds with patience and pride. A neighborhood should still look right in fifty years — so we plan it that way.
Quality matters most where you’ll never look. Behind the drywall is where a reputation gets built.
Accountable means the numbers say what we said they’d say. That’s how a bank, a buyer and a family learn to trust you.
Enriching lives starts at the first conversation. Nobody buys square footage. They buy Sunday mornings.
The People Behind the Work
From land and finance to design, purchasing, construction and sales, these are the people who help turn plans into places people call home.
Kurt leads Navigate Homes with a focus on strong teams, operational excellence and delivering a high-quality homeowner experience.
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Nate oversees operations and helps guide homeowners through the building process with a focus on making the experience organized and enjoyable.
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Gina leads entitlement and land development with expertise in community planning, environmental protection and thoughtful neighborhood development.
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Joe oversees Navigate’s real estate activity, speculative home strategy and the sales process for buyers building or purchasing a Navigate home.
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Derek provides financial oversight and strategic guidance as Navigate Homes continues to grow and develop new homes and communities.
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Marinan brings years of finance and accounting experience to Navigate and helps keep the business side of every project moving forward.
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Karl leads Navigate’s construction team and oversees quality control, jobsite execution and production schedules.
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Rachael works with homeowners to transform ideas into cohesive interior selections and personalized spaces throughout their new home.
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David guides buyers through available homes, neighborhoods and the homebuilding process while helping clients make confident decisions from first conversation through closing.
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Nathan helps coordinate homeowner selections while bringing a passion for architecture, design and thoughtful details to the process.
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Konner coordinates bidding, material pricing and subcontractor purchasing for Navigate’s new construction projects.
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Russ brings extensive residential and commercial construction experience to Navigate’s jobsites and day-to-day field operations.
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Kollin supports Navigate’s field team and helps keep construction moving smoothly across active homes and neighborhoods.
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Curt works directly with homeowners and the construction team to help bring each home from plans and selections into reality.
Meet Curt →Recognition
Recognition is meaningful because it reflects the work behind the home: planning, design, construction, efficiency and follow-through.
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