Founder Mark R. Haas helps CEOs and boards rethink strategy when the ground shakes.
With decades as management consultant, entrepreneur, CEO, board chair, and ethics officer, I've gained perspective to help leaders see past plans and assumptions. Most strategies fail not from bad ideas but from misalignment and untested beliefs. My best work starts when leaders say, ‘We’ve done what we know how to do. What are we missing?’
Meet Mark R. Haas
Executives and boards face increasingly complex growth challenges for which most strategies are inadequate. To help level the playing field, I started Haas Strategy Solutions.
I am also CEO/co-founder of AEG, the Association for Enterprise Growth, an ecosystem of business leaders: midmarket CEOs, elite business advisors in complementary disciplines, and regional centers of influence. Emphasizing relationships over transactions, AEG curates communities through tailored experiences and resources, accelerating trust to foster personal and business growth.
Previously, I was Founder and President of Research and Organization Management (ROM), a DC-based management consulting firm helping midmarket executives and boards adopt a systems approach and mindset to integrate diagnostics, strategy formation, business models, and performance management. See the Showcase of types of services provided and Testimonials from Clients.
Advising Executives
I work exclusively with CEOs, board chairs, and nonprofit leaders who are mission-driven but facing complexity or uncertain futures. My engagements span industries, sizes, and corporate forms, including;
- Business plans for a transportation company
- Revitalizing a human service nonprofit
- Strategy for a women’s health organization.
- Strategy for a biodiversity enterprise
- Business plan for a state child services agency
- Merging two scientific associations
- Revising a clinical research organization’s business model
Facilitation and Training
Mark’s facilitation includes:
- CEO strategy
- WWIV military strategy
- Response to nuclear terrorism
- Global Science and Technology R&D planning
- US Navy’s first STEM Forum
Training includes:
- Leadership and management for Tanzanian government executives
- Establishing a management consulting industry in Western Asia and Eastern Europe
- Efficient renovation and administration of lab space for NIH Research Facilities
- Training graduate business students in ethics and professional behavior
Leadership
Beyond leading AEG and ROM, my leadership roles include past Board Chair and CEO of the Institute of Management Consultants USA, the professional and certifying body for US management consultants. I also led ethics investigations and adjudication efforts as Ethics Officer for 20 years.
I've served as Director of other corporate, education, and civic associations, and am a member of Leadership Greater Washington Class of 2022.
IMC USA awarded me several Distinguished Service awards and named me a Fellow of the Institute. In recognition of contributions to the management consulting profession, I received the Lifetime Achievement Award.
Earlier in my career, the Society of Petroleum Engineers awarded me the Young Member Outstanding Service Award, the only non-petroleum engineer to receive this award.
Education and Certification
I hold degrees in biology (field ecology and evolutionary biology) from Colgate University (Konosioni honor society) and in city and regional planning (energy and environmental policy) from Harvard University, where I was a Teaching Assistant for graduate students and a Teaching Fellow for undergraduates.
I received the Certified Management Consultant (CMC) designation, the internationally recognized designation of professionalism, competence, and professional conduct.
I hold certifications in Strategic Planning, One Page Business Planning, Core Value Operational Diagnostics, and other technical and analytical areas.
Personal Odds and Ends
- My personal core values are service, courage, loyalty, and respect.
- I've served as an expert witness, authored articles in peer reviewed journals, and served on several boards.
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Personality Profiles: MBTI (ENTJ - Commander), CVI (Innovator-Merchant), Clifton (Learner, Responsibility, Individualization, Ideation, Intellection), PI (Collaborator).
- To support the effectiveness of individual management consultants and share my experience, I authored Daily Tips for Consultants for 5 years, with subscribers in 104 countries.
- With my wife, I took a yearlong trip around the world to learn about other cultures and see iconic locations.
- I earned a Commercial Pilot License, having flown solo in a plane before I did so in a car.
- Although a shadow of my former self, back in the day I won four golf tournaments and played collegiate golf.
Strategy is About Choice
Betting your company on a strategy requires trust in your team and advisors. If my perspective, experience, personality, and ethics resonate with you , then let's talk about how to work together.