Marc Smith Sacks, NCC, ACC

Marc Smith Sacks has five years experience as a certified corporate leadership coach, facilitator, and trainer, empowering and inspiring C-level leaders, managers, and corporate teams in SMB’s and Fortune 100’s.  Marc works in technology-driven sectors to include energy, hi-tech, pharmaceuticals, healthcare, construction, consumer products, and financial services.

He specializes in facilitating lasting positive changes and solution-oriented strategies for managers and leaders in growth and transition situations.  To this end, he delivers training and coaching programs focused on leadership development, including Increasing Interpersonal Effectiveness; Restoring Team Trust; Managing Overwhelm; Generating Commitment; among others.

Marc's clients rapidly move from acceptable to exceptional performance. Leaders shift their thinking and behaviors, and commit to new levels of practice in a matter of hours. They sustain these changes, embedding them into their daily routines within weeks.

Representative client engagements include:

§  Division, Russell 1000 global energy company, culture change project, implement customized system for developing leaders, including 18 days of leadership training and coaching for 200 supervisors, and linking leadership behaviors to business impact. After 6 months, reportable injuries were down 35%, and productivity was up 13% ~ $30M

§  Senior Director of Supply Chain and Operations, global pharmaceuticals company, successfully managed a merger and minimized constraints on short-term productivity, while developing increased influence among his peers/team. After six months, employee engagement was up to 84% (2^nd  highest in the company).

§  VP Engineering, hi-tech company, new leader role, build an amazing engineering team and increasing political influence on executive team

§  Senior Manager, global b2b hi-tech company, successfully  integrated customer support teams, improved the customer satisfaction scores, and collaborated more with direct reports. After six months, customer satisfaction was up 8% (halfway to 12 mo target), and collaborating with direct reports was significantly improved.

§  C-Level Team, global oil and gas company, improving executive team alignment and increasing leadership behaviors on operations team, from getting compliance to producing commitment

§  CEO, Inc. 500 jet company, created a culture of excellence on senior team, increased levels of trust, and improved communication. After six months, four ‘bad apples’ self-selected out, and morale, alignment, levels of trust, and communication were all significantly improved.