Service Areas
Leadership & Career Coaching
Everyone’s career journey has twists, turns, new opportunities, setbacks, and big decisions.
Having an experienced coach and guide to provide personalized insights and action plans for your next step is key.
Mark’s 30 years of leadership and career coaching experience provides everything you need to maximize your unique “operating system” of intrinsic abilities and work purpose. This is what drives your best contributions, while also providing a deep sense of personal fulfillment and impact in all that you do.
Along with Mark’s proprietary coaching process, engagements incorporate the SIMA® Assessment process and typically span three to twelve months depending on focus.
Starting from your objectives and context, focus areas oftentimes include:
Increasing intentionality regarding the application of your intrinsic abilities and work purpose for more effective and meaningful career work
Implementing critical career transitions including the sale of a privately-held business, a change from one industry to another, preparation for leadership succession or a meaningful retirement focus, among others
Redesigning your leadership role or management structure to be more congruent with your most authentic and sustainable contributions
Exploring and pursuing ideal community, volunteer, or board service opportunities for you to give back to others
Start a conversation with Mark about your context and where you need to go next.
Executive Evaluation & Development
There is no real leadership growth without engaging the feedback you need to implement meaningful improvement.
There is no real organizational growth without appropriate, contextualized assessment of your leaders.
While there are a preponderance of 360-degree tools and HR performance measurement instruments out there, executive leaders need thoughtful, tailored, and productive assessments of their work and effectiveness.
For decades, Mark has served boards and executives in president, CEO, and senior-level assessment and development processes.
These are driven by:
Expert guidance and facilitation, focused on inviting participants into a leadership development initiative (vs. a remedial or corrective effort)
Clear and agreed-upon process steps between a board and its executive (or an executive and their report)
The incorporation of the SIMA® Assessment to create clarity on a leader’s intrinsic abilities and work purpose to implement achievable, high-impact improvements
The development of agreed-upon assessment criteria that explore applicable leadership traits as well as criteria connected to strategic outcomes
The use of quantitative measurement in confidential survey form alongside qualitative exploration through live dialogue with process participants
Maintaining participant confidentiality and process trust by highlighting core performance themes, while avoiding fixation on unhelpful individual opinions or comments
Process outcomes that accurately describe the balance between leadership strengths and areas for improvement, and interactive discussion with the executive and their overseer to develop five to seven actionable improvement goals
Mark will provide assessment steps and timelines based on an exploratory conversation about your needs.
Executive Selection Consulting
Organizations today have unique parameters and dynamic needs that must be driven by the right leaders.
Leaders today are driven by joining a meaningful endeavor that connects with their experience, abilities and sense of purpose.
Effectively connecting these realities in a leadership selection decision is the most important accelerator of your organization’s plans, impact, and results.
Mark has been directly involved in supporting leadership selections for over 30 years to ensure custom fit between positions and candidates. This includes everything from front-end position profile development and back-end candidate assessment, to the design and facilitation of entire CEO, SVP, and VP search processes.
Executive selection consulting includes:
Leadership position design work based on organizational review and constituent, leadership, or staff input
The development of “Critical Leadership Requirements” that detail the ideal background fit, culture fit, and leadership fit for use in candidate screening, interviewing and selection
Initial candidate assessment to prepare for interviewing by client teams
In-depth finalist assessment using the SIMA® Process to predict candidate fit and support needs to facilitate your final decision
The design of specific on-boarding or development plans for your new hire based on their unique profile and needs
Mark can also guide your search process or partner with your HR leadership or preferred search firm to ensure the best fit and to add significant value to what you already do.