Mark Zides

About Mark Zides

Every growth plateau has an unlock. Mark Zides finds it, then builds the system that turns it into revenue. Mark is a player-coach to founders, CEOs, and PE-backed leadership teams stuck at six, seven, or eight figures. Not a consultant with a framework: a six-time founder with three exits, including a nine-figure PE sale, who has sat in the chair and embeds alongside leadership teams to build the growth engine, not just advise on it. The track record: he founded CoreAxis Consulting, a leadership, L&D, and talent development firm, and grew it from a November 2008 start in the depths of the financial crisis to a nine-figure PE exit in 2022, on the strength of clients like Bank of America, Amazon, Fidelity, and Lululemon. He founded an HR-tech platform and scaled it to 400+ Fortune 500 clients and an eight-figure exit. As CEO of Luminoso Technologies, an MIT Labs AI spinout, he turned the business around and led it to acquisition. The practice covers four lanes: Fractional CRO and growth advisory, executive coaching, exit readiness and M&A, and board and PE/VC portfolio advisory. All of it runs on the UNLOCK Method: uncover the real constraints, name the growth levers, and codify what works into a repeatable revenue engine the team can run without the founder. More leads won't save a revenue engine that leaks. Fix the engine. Then scale it. Mark is the bestselling author of Rewired Leadership and The #PACE Process for Early Career Success, a TEDx speaker on the future of work, and an executive coach and MBA advisor at Babson College. Founders bring him in to coach. They keep him to build. The ones who go the distance put him on their board. Every plateau has an unlock. Find yours at markzides.com.