Mark Kinnich

About Mark Kinnich

There are three challenges that every leadership team must overcome to create a genuinely high-performing organization that consistently delivers high-quality customer value. As you reflect on these, which are the most important to you? The challenges are: • Moving from Chaos to Clarity – Lack of strategic clarity forces strategic decisions to be made lower in the organization – and these decisions are being made without good guidance! • Moving from a functional focus to an enterprise value creation focus – A functional focus creates internal conflicts rather than improving competitive strength! • Moving from a set of heroes saving the day to creating a potent workforce – Reliance on a few good people handicaps the organization’s future capability! I develop leadership teams to achieve greater customer satisfaction and loyalty in 8 months or less through the BAM!™ Process. My passion for creating leadership teams comes from 30+ years of seeing the transformation when a collection of functional leaders becomes a dedicated team focused on top/bottom-line results – customer and shareholder value. I have guided 100’s of teams through a process that significantly impacts individual leaders’ capability, the team’s performance, and the organization’s effectiveness. Results created from the BAM!™ Process have included: • Stopping large critical customers from leaving – saving the organization’s future• Increasing sales by 50% in two years• Significantly decreasing customer complaints about on-time-delivery • Accelerating introduction of new customer orders – reducing the lead time, which increased revenue What additional business would your customers bring to you if your organization was more consistent, reliable, and innovative? Let’s connect and see where the conversation goes.Specialties: Strategic Planning, Leadership Team Development, Executive Coaching, Organization Design, Change Management

Experience

1. Chief Executive Officer

   Kinnich Consulting Llc

   Jul 2019 — Present · Chicago, IL, US

   Mark draws from years of personal and professional experience to bring advice that is relevant and practical. I\'d want Mark in my corner any day.” - Manny, BU Leader Ag Industry; MNLearn more at - kinnich.comI guide CEO’s and their leadership teams to create breakthrough and transformational improvements that impact the team’s and the organization’s performance: top-line, bottom-line and sustainability.Strategic EffectivenessOrganization’s lacking a robust strategic planning process typically have customers that aren’t sure what differentiates them from their competitors, internally have competing priorities across functional boundaries, and spend too much time fighting crisis instead of building sustainable capability.Strategy Execution/Organizational EffectivenessOrganization’s lacking excellence in strategy execution typically have functional silos at odds with each other, fall short of key goals and aren’t exactly sure why, and attack problems and crisis from a finger pointing, blaming perspective rather than a systemic continuous improvement perspective.Leadership EffectivenessLeadership styles drive performance. Leadership requires stepping out of one’s own preferences and habits and stepping up into whatever the team or organization needs to succeed. Organizations lacking excellence in Leadership are typically relying on the capability of a few superstars instead of an organization-wide capability that is founded in values, culture, accountability and performance.Learn more about these capabilities at - kinnich.com/capabilities

Education

• Columbia Business School

  Organizational Leadership: Organization Design, Leadership Team Performance, Team Development , Business

• University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire

  BS, Business Administration & Computer Science

  1973 — 1978

• University of St. Thomas

  Masters, Human Resource Development

  1983 — 1985

• Northwestern University - Kellogg School of Management

  Executive Leadership Certificate: Strategic Planning & Strategy Execution , Organizational Leadership

Skills

• Executive Management
• Performance Management
• Executive Team Alignment
• Leadership Development
• Employee Engagement
• Organizational Effectiveness
• Workforce Planning
• Consulting
• Human Resources
• Executive Development
• Organizational Development
• Performance Improvement
• Workshop Facilitation
• Change Management
• Emotional Intelligence
• Leadership
• Strategy
• Succession Planning
• Executive Coaching
• Training Delivery
• Strategic Planning
• Coaching
• Workforce Strategy
• Cross-Functional Team Leadership
• Business Strategy
• Talent Management
• Organizational Design
• Strategy Execution