WHAT CHANGE ARE YOU LOOKING FOR?
OUR CONSULTING CAN HELP.
We work with you to discover the mindsets and behaviours that are core to your organization’s success and help you implement the thinking, conversations and actions that help you thrive.
Mark is a respected and sought-after consultant, instructor and coach. He loves to help organizations build cultures that bring out the best in people and achieve extraordinary results. His 30+ years of experience allow him to quickly discern opportunities for his clients to further engage staff, create deeper leadership alignment, clarify organizational values and help people sustain change.
His greatest joy is working with leadership teams to help them develop clarity and consistency in the behaviours required to produce outcomes and model the values required for sustained change.
His clients span many sectors: auto manufacturing and sales, manufacturing, education, health care, government and not for-profit.
Mark has led major organizational change initiatives in the educational sector, increased employee engagement and built effective teams in the pulp and paper industry, helped manufacturing plants change their culture, developed leadership certificate programs for municipal governments and large not-for-profit organizations.
His passion, in all of these areas, is the development of leadership that inspires individuals and teams to take ownership of their contributions to organizations.
He is also a valued contributor to The Schulich Executive Education Centre of York University in Toronto, Ontario, and to the Loyalist Training and Knowledge Centre of Loyalist College located in Belleville, Ontario. He regularly teaches seminars for the Executive Development Department of the Gustavson School of Business of the University of Victoria, B.C..
WHAT I CAN HELP YOU WITH.
- If you’re considering how to build a culture with high accountability and effectively shared decision making…
- If you’re tired of firefighting and realize that the leaders in your organization are more focused on the immediate than on the longer term and more strategic aspects of their roles and work…
- If you find team members may not be stepping up to take ownership of their roles and outcomes as well as you would need…
- If you need to coach and develop your leaders so they can actively contribute to building a healthy and productive culture…
- Or if you need to take stock of your team or organizational purpose and values…
A Not-for-profit sector story.
“I used to spend so much time doing things my team could have been doing, I’m now able to focus on longer term issues...”Working with the senior management team, we identified the needed behavioural changes to enact their strategic plan, helped senior leaders clarify their expectations and hold themselves accountable to key leadership behaviours and taught leaders across the organization how to engage in the behaviours needed for success.
One tangible outcome noted by a participant:
“I used to spend so much time doing things my team could have been doing, I’m now able to focus on longer term issues. Trust has really increased in my team and our clients are better served.”
A Manufacturing sector story.
“I wish we would have started these conversations 20 years ago, my life would have been so much easier...”Working with the plant manager, we engaged the senior management team in discussing how they were shaping the plant culture.
We met on monthly basis to have these 2 hour talks. The senior team got so much out of these conversations that they spread them to front line leaders. We simply met on a monthly basis in small groups to discuss the culture, make commitments to change behaviours and report back the next month on applications and learning.
Productivity in the plant increased by close to 20% and leaders who were addicted to a “command and control” approach to leadership discovered the readiness their teams had to share insights, improve quality and contribute to the success of the plant.
WHAT OTHERS ARE SAYING.
“Our management team has been working with Mark for many years but over the past few we have been engaged in a leadership development program that has helped us move our organization forward despite many challenges […] The growth in our leadership abilities has translated into performance improvements that we can measure each and every day. Mark is a critical part of our continued success.”