Are new leaders succeeding in your client's organization, just getting along, or failing? Are mergers and acquisitions succeeding or are cultural clashes or leaders without the necessary change leadership skills risking the achievement of your critical objectives? Do your leaders have the skills to protect and grow your business in today's environment?

Studies also indicate that over 60% of mergers and acquisitions fail to achieve their original objectives due to cultural clashes. No business can succeed without building the sustainable and scalable leadership skills to face today's global challenges.

What is the difference between a successful and unsuccessful leader? The successful leader understands and practices the skills required to make effective leadership changes every time facing every type of organizational challenge. A sustainable leader understands, practices, teaches, and hones these skills during their career and in their personal life.

Fortunately these skills can be taught and Mark Walztoni combines his global leadership experience with proven and practical solutions to prepare leaders to accelerate their success whenever they join a new organization or accept a new challenge. That's why his clients call him the "Leadership Change Expert."

He is a certified executive coach, leadership development specialist, and professional speaker with a global practice. His content is fresh, research-based, humorous (he's a graduate of Chicago's Second City Players Workshop) and can be customized from a keynote address to a three day hands-on workshop for any audience.

As an active angel investor and prior global executive with American Express, Ernst & Young LLP, and Thomson, Mark also understands human capital due diligence, merger and acquisition integration, and how to ensure that the right people are in the right roles in start-up, turnaround, high growth, and divestiture situations.

His firm, Sustainable Ventures Alliance LLC, provides on-call human capital due diligence, merger and acquisition integration, and talent acquisition, development and retention services to investors and their portfolio companies so his presentations are filled with real-world situations and meaningful "lessons learned."

Mark's Speaking Clients Include:
• American Express Company
• Human Capital Institute
• City, State, and Regional Chapters of the Society of Human Resources Management
• Annual State American Society of Training and Development Conference
• Annual Chesapeake Bay Organizational Development Network Conference
• International Coach Federation
• Santa Fe Business Alliance
• Greater Baltimore Chamber of Commerce
• Annual American Compensation Association Conference
• Fortune Magazine's CIO Conference (China)
• Ernst & Young LLP
• Computer Horizons Corporation
• IGATE Capital Management
• Los Alamos National Laboratories
• Intel
• Patni Computer Systems

Mark is also an Expert Advisory panelist and presenter on career transition and comprehensive on-boarding for the Human Capital Institute and an adjunct instructor for the Santa Fe Community College Leadership Academy. He has produced his own teleseminar series, New Leader Journeys with Mark Walztoni and the Engagement Journeys series for noted employee engagement author, Martha Finney.

He is currently completing his first book, "Achieving Your Leadership Legacy- How to Protect and Grow Your Business Through Building Sustainable Leaders at All Levels."

Testimonials

Mark has the amazing gift for mixing the inspiring with the practical! During his speech on The Power of Surprise I watched a room full of HR leaders transform their thoughts from "can I?" to "can't wait to get started!"
Martha Finney-President and CEO, Engagement Journeys, LLC

I attended Mark Walztoni's presentation on leadership transitions at the 2007 New Mexico Conference for the American Society for Training and Development. While I was drawn to the presentation by the topic, I was totally captivated by Mark's presentation. Several aspects of his presentation stood out for me, including his ease in presenting and rapport with the group, his clean and easy-to-follow slides, and his compelling use of information he'd gotten from researching his topic. He was an inspiration to me, and I have since gone on to hone my own presentation skills. I highly recommend him!
Kathy Trckey- President and CEO, KT Global Associates LLC

Mark Walztoni gave an engaging and extremely informative presentation on "Best Practices for Making Leadership Changes Effective from Day 1," to the Human Resource Management Association of New Mexico at their June General Meeting. Mark had taken the time to do his research with the membership by gathering survey data from the membership prior to the meeting. He then tailored his remarks to the survey results, which made his remarks both timely and pertinent. Mark also took the time to have the attendees work together at their tables on a couple of case studies, which enhanced the learning experience and gave attendees the opportunity to get to know each other. He received some of the highest ratings of any speaker so far this year and the HRMA Board is very happy with the outcome.
David Berkey-Board Member, Society of Human Resources Management

Mark Walztoni is a pleasure to work with as a seminar panelist and presenter in his role as an Expert Adviser to the Comprehensive Onboarding, Career Transition, and Mergers and Acquisitions communities of the Human Capital Institute (HCI). He is well informed on current practices, displays a polished speaking style that includes a ready sense of humor, and he adds real world examples from his own experience to illustrate key learning points that have benefited the over 3000 seminar participants he's spoken to for HCI over the last four years.
Joy Kosta-Senior Director HCI Talent Communities, Human Capital Institute

I have seen Mr. Walztoni present on two occasions. In both cases, the topic was Executive Integration, which addressed the importance of a newly-appointed executive's successful entry into a new leadership role, be it up from within, or as someone newly-recruited. The presentation included very helpful ideas about winning strategies as well as potential pitfalls, and the key partnership role that the internal HR function can play to raise the odds of success for the new executive and the organization.

Fred Demers- Director of Human Resources, McCormick and Company

The Human Resources Management Association of Albuquerque had the pleasure of having Mark Walztoni present to its membership an important and useful talk regarding best practices to help an organization become more successful with its orientation and retention programs. Mark was not only interesting, but had a strong command of the subject-matter, and was very comfortable speaking to a large audience- keeping them engaged and motivated."

Art Gonzales- Director of Equal Employment Opportuntiy, University of New Mexico

Hear an Audio Sample from one of Mark's Teleseminars: http://instantTeleseminar.com/?eventid=2882973