Marc W. Horowitz MWH Group LLC Management Consultant 100 Crossways Park West, Ste 201 Woodbury, NY 11797 Phone: (516) 921-2200 Fax: (516) 921-5970 Cell: (516) 808-7100 Email | Website Marc, as founder and President of the MWH Group, drives businesses to improved productivity, profitability and reduced costs. He has studied and supported organizational effectiveness and systemic change, providing leadership for business and educational initiatives utilizing open systems designs for over thirty years. He has also been the team leader for a variety of restructurings, including implementation of total quality, continuous improvement, and "customer" focus as a business leader in small to mid-size firms and as an educational leader in several high profile school systems. He specializes in involving all stakeholder levels in strategic thinking and leadership, creating conditions that result in high quality of work life, staff commitment, and excellent performance. He designs learning templates for organizational cultures that lead to the achievement of competitive advantage. Consultations include learning, teamwork and strategy development in corporations such as Macmillan McGraw-Hill, Long Island Commercial Bank, Holtz Rubenstein, Lemon Tree Hair Salons, Rita's Ice Corp., GarageTek, Atlas Traffic Consultants, Mr. T. Carting Corp., The Bachrach Group, the NYC Board of Education, Valplast International Corporation, Island Acoustics, Connolly and Company, the Tiffen Company, Platinum Maintenance Services Corp., Smart Brain America Franchise Corp., LeVian Jewelery Corp., and the Estee Lauder Companies. Marc has over 35 years of experience in supporting the growth and development of teams and learning organizations that have effectively utilized teams to do things better, faster, and cheaper. His company provides performance improvement expertise through learning and collaboration, and process redesign solutions to business leaders challenged to improve their bottom line. His company is currently working with several CEOs who know there is so much more they can do with their companies and are striving to get their management teams aligned around a common vision, mission and purpose. In other organizations, their work is focused on helping the owners to build high performance teams within data-driven team based organizations. Their work is based on the belief that the real experts in your business reside within your companies, and that their value-add is in helping you to tap into the collective wisdom of your most valuable asset, your people. He has also used the data driven process to gather critical intelligence for business buyers and their professional transactional support to help them "find the cracks" in the foundations before purchase. Marc earned his doctorate from the Teachers College at Columbia University. He researched and published on the politics of NYC administrative decentralization. The MWH Group has had a very significant impact on the ways in which people work together in their businesses by helping them understand what their customers want and need, and what their people can contribute to improve their performance. While sitting as President of the Crossways Business Association, Marc is also a Board Member of Commerce Plaza Long Island and is a Technical Advisor to Vistage, an International Organization of CEOs.