About Ensuring Legacy
Our Mission
Our mission is to provide executive operations and risk consulting services to help our clients protect and improve their capabilities to deliver value to their clients.
Our Team
Mark has more than 30 years of experience in helping protect and improve organizations. He has hands-on executive experience including operations, re-engineering, risk management, strategic planning, continuous process improvement, and business information systems.
Mark retired as Lt. Colonel in the U.S. Army. He has successfully led numerous organizations in the U.S. military to include both Infantry and Armor battalions and is Airborne and Ranger qualified. He earned a Masters in Environmental Sciences (MEn) from Miami University
Mark has served in multiple operational executive roles to include:
- Co-Founder/Principal
- COO (Manufacturing, Professional Services)
- CAO (Manufacturing, Construction)
- EVP Operations & Governance (Technology)
- Practice Leader (Business and Risk Management)
- Lt. Colonel (Retired) U.S. Army
Dr. Peggy Slavik has been an educator for almost 30 years. She served on the faculty of Miami University, Ohio for 5 years and joined the mathematics faculty at Baldwin Wallace University (BWU) in 2000. She served as a Professor and Core Math Coordinator in the Mathematics and Currently, she serves as an Associate Statistics Department. Dr. Slavik received a Ph.D. in Mathematics Education, from Kent State University and a M.Ed. in Secondary Mathematics Education, from Miami University. Her academic area of interest revolves around attitudes toward mathematics, technology in the mathematics, quantitative reasoning, and statistics education.
Our Approach
Our approach is to fit within the client’s playbook or existing processes. We want to rapidly drive value to our clients and leave them with actionable and sustainable products that improve their capabilities.
We leverage the following planning and improvement models:
- Executive Tactical Meeting Model
- McNeil Compression Planning
- General Systems Theory/Pyramid Model
- Balanced Scorecard Approach
- Lean/Six Sigma (Hoshin Kanri)
- Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award
- U.S. Army After Action Review
Our Services
Protecting Potential (Risk Management)
Our Protect 360™ service provides executive leaders with an enterprise-wide risk evaluation of the likely impacts to their business.
- Provides visibility on what could harm your capabilities, performance, and reputation
- Helps answer those “what if” questions
- Provides an easy-to-implement and prioritized “Roadmap for Action”
- Identifies opportunities for improving your competitive capabilities for driving value to customers
- Provides Risk Scorecard to quantify impact and support decision-making
Planning - Strategy, Contingency, Continuity
We can help facilitate planning for our clients. Below are previous projects:
- Program Director for the first FEMA Region V CBRN response plans
- Numerous Operations and Contingency Plans for U.S. Army, State of Ohio
- Risk and Business Continuity Assessment (“Risk Radar 360”) for Airlines
- Continuity of Operations Plans for 19,000-person university
- Business Impact Analysis (BIA) and for $33B regional bank
- Information Security Risk Assessment (ISRA) for $33B regional bank
- Business Continuity Planning (BCP) for $120M Customer Connection application
- Technology Audit Program for the State of Ohio’s Department of Insurance
- Strategic Plan for 1,350-person multi-state legal services firm
- Strategic Plan for 19,000-student university Facilities Department
- Strategic Plan for 2,500-employee specialty-trade contractor
- Audit / Review Process for universities, multi-state contractors, State of Ohio, etc.
- Numerous CPI/Lean/Six Sigma programs for $33B regional bank, regional law firm, regional
Leader Risk Decision-making
Ensuring Legacy’s Leader Risk Decision-Making (LRDM) training program provides managers, supervisors, and leads with a methodology to identify, evaluate, and manage the risks that could negatively impact their organizations (e.g. worksites, projects, operations, production lines).
We help you identify and manage risk to ensure the long-term success of your business. Our team can develop risk management strategies tailored to the unique needs of your business and provide ongoing risk management support.
Results of LRDM Training:
- Increase in crew/team performance
- Reduction in rework and substandard quality
- Reduction in liabilities (e.g. workers’ compensation, insurance claims)
- Reduction in loss workdays and turnover
Facilitation of Lessons Learned
We facilitate and help review lessons learned for incidents, projects, and major events
(Prepare → Run → Document).
We use the event reconstruction approach where individuals present their own roles and perceptions of the event (Based on the U.S. Army's After-Action Review and Six Sigma/Lean models). There are incidents that may require additional investigative work.
The Lessons Learned will answer:
- What went well?
- What went wrong?
- What was the impact (positive or negative)?
- What are the recommendations?
- Do the recommendations meet FAST? (i.e., feasible, achievable, sustainable, testable)
Facilitation of Meetings & Planning Sessions
We facilitate executive meetings, strategy/planning sessions, lessons learned, and project kick-offs (Prepare → Run → Document). Benefits include:
- Allows your team to be 100% focused on the plan
- Keeps you and the team on track and on target
- Enhances ideation and participation
- Drives outcomes on strategic objectives and goals
- Achieves “real” buy-in (i.e., change management)
- Increases performance by achieving the “plan”
- Reduces waste (e.g. Total comp, opportunity cost)
- Provides honest feedback on team/meeting dynamics
- Helps the team see gaps and areas for deeper dives
- Reduces meeting dribble (e.g., time prepping, documenting)