Mark LaScola, Founder & Managing Principal

A distinctive characteristic of Mark LaScola’s work in business transformation is empowerment. LaScola believes deeply that “people support what they help to create.” He uses that wisdom to assist organizations across the globe achieve solid results and unleash the talent and potential they already have, but may not yet recognize.

He is also the Founder of ON THE MARK – a full service strategy, organization design and strategic change consulting firm based in Phoenix, Arizona, USA and London, UK.

In business since 1990, OTM is recognized by many of its customer organizations as their “preferred vendor of choice,” providing substantive yet practical organization design solutions and real, lasting change. LaScola refers to this as “Collaborative Business Transformation.”

OTM has a bold and impressive history of redesigning organizations for success with a common results footprint:

• Complex organizational change accomplished at an accelerated rate
• Less bureaucracy/increased speed of product/service delivery
• Improved quality and lower costs
• More satisfied customers
• ‘Off-the-charts’ employee engagement scores

Unlike consultants who proffer pre-fabricated solutions that are supposed to work for every company, OTM’s solutions are unique to your organization, and are based on its mission, strategy, values and differentiating characteristics. ON THE MARK helps companies revitalize leadership, and to gain what LaScola calls a “head & heart commitment” from employees, ensuring that an entire organization is “fit for purpose” and their people are aligned around this purpose.

Client organizations are often astonished by the speed at which this detailed systems and process redesign work can happen. Yet, OTM successfully redesigned an 800-person organization in 32 days; in another case, five separate businesses in four countries were redesigned and integrated in slightly over three months. Since 1990, LaScola has successfully delivered over 400 projects, and since 1998 has trained and developed approximately 3,000 executives, managers and internal change agents – across a broad and diverse range of industries on 6 continents and over 20 countries.

To put it simply, LaScola and his team are experts at real change, real fast.

Mark LaScola holds an interdisciplinary Master of Science in Marriage and Family Therapy from San Jose State University (1985), where his work focused on systems theory and its application to human systems and processes. He also holds a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology from Fresno State University (1980). When not on a plane traveling to his next project or watching a real football (soccer) match, he is truly home with his family in Phoenix, Arizona.