Mark Thienes

MARK THIENES' experiential journey encompasses over thirty years of success as a retail executive leading teams to winning seasons. In his first book,"Gapology: How Winning Leaders Close Performance Gaps", Mark proudly refers to himself as "the original Gapologist." Through his research for the book and subsequent coaching sessions, he has transformed the leadership of literally thousands of winning leaders. Mark has gained incredible insight into their secrets of winning. Gapology—the formula of closing the Knowledge Gap, then the Importance Gap, and then the Action Gap—resulted from listening to and observing winning leaders in action. This curiosity about winning leaders and the chronicling of their wins and losses led him to the discovery of the IMBAR pathway and the connection between personal and professional Identity and Results which is the source of his next book, "IMBAR: The Pathway of Transformation".