Mark Heller is a Management Consultant working with leaders and their teams to continuously learn how to become more useful to themselves and each other as their opportunities and challenges evolve. He has extensive experience with people at all levels of organizations in for Profit, Not-for-Profit and Education. Through the use of Emotional Intelligence, Action Learning, and competitive sports background, opportunities and challenges are faced and worked through in ways which build group momentum through which more leaders grow. Prior to his consulting practice, Mark was a Retained Executive Recruiter for two boutique firms, both of which were singularly successful. Mark’s initial work was enabling chronic psychiatric patients to return to the workforce, as part of a groundbreaking program with what has become an internationally recognized platform. He has spoken on coaching and leadership which continually differentiates at NYU’s MBA program, NYSSA, AMA and a variety of senior Human Resource forums. Mark has had his own retained search practice since 1992, recruiting for Sanford C. Bernstein, JP Morgan, and KLS. Before founding Executive Solutions, Mark worked as a senior recruiter for 2 years with Richard Kove Associates, a retained boutique, which hired managing directors for Merrill Lynch, Drexel and Paine Webber. Prior, Mark was an executive recruiter with Richard’s Consultants, a retained generalist search firm that specialized in financial services, primarily Lehman Brothers and Morgan Stanley. Mark Heller, in alliance with Jan Margolis and Joel Moses, designed simulations to identify and develop executives with High Potential at leadership-driven levels of Fortune 500 companies, including early innovators AT&T under Bob Allen and Motorola run by George Fisher now with KKR. He has served on the Board of Directors for ARMI (Association for the Rehabilitation of the Mentally Ill) and developed its initial fundraiser.