Mark is President of Leadership for Lawyers, LLC, a consultancy focused on helping lawyers become stronger leaders.  He provides training, coaching, and consultation to firms in the areas of leadership development, business development and innovation with law firms and legal departments around the world.  His clients range from small, single office firms to global 50 firms.  

He focuses his work on helping firms and in-house departments adapt to the “new normal” by equipping lawyers and business staff with leadership skills, tools and direction.  He works with managing partners, executive committee members, C-level executives, practice group leaders, CLOs and in-house counsel to improve their performance.  He has provided leadership training as part of many mid-level and senior-level associate academies for law firms.  

Mark is a former adjunct faculty at the Center for Creative Leadership and the University of Denver Sturm School of Law.  He focused on issues of change leadership, team development, influence, cross-generation issues, collaboration, innovation and design thinking.

He is a Fellow of the College of Law Practice Management.  In 2014 he was inducted into the Legal Marketing Association Hall of Fame for lifetime achievement. 

Mark is the former Chair of the Lawyer Leadership Committee of the American Bar Association, Law Practice Management Division.  He is also a professional member of the International Leadership Association, the National Speakers Association, the Legal Marketing Association and the College of Law Practice Management. 

Mark has more than 30 years experience as a consultant and chief marketing officer for professional services firms. He served as Chief Marketing Officer for Holland & Hart, a law firm based in Denver, Director of Marketing for the New York law firm of Hodgson Russ, and Director of Marketing for Kideney Architects in Buffalo, NY.  

He is certified and trained to administer several assessments, including the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI), DiSC, the Change Style Instrument (CSI), Influence Style Indicator (ISI) and the Leadership Practices Inventory (LPI) among many other assessments and coaching tools. 

Mark received his B.S. and M.B.A. from the University of Buffalo.  He is a former international board member of the Legal Marketing Association and past president of the Rocky Mountain Legal Marketing Association.  He is the former chair of the Marketing Committee of Terralex, an international association of law firms in 93 countries.  He served as a faculty member of the Marketing Directors Institute and is a frequent speaker at the Marketing Partner Forum, Legal Marketing Association, Association  of Legal Administrators, American Bar Association and Professional Development Consortium conferences.

An Eagle Scout, Mark volunteers in the realm of International Scouting, promoting peace, sustainability and collaboration among the world’s 57 million Scouts.