Frequently Asked Questions

Mark Greaves is an executive leadership coach, consultant, and author of Firm Foundations, a functional guide to building effective teams in the modern marketplace. Over more than two decades in President- and Executive-level roles, Mark has managed teams numbering in the thousands, overseen large marketing budgets, and built leadership development plans that scaled organizations to more than 200 leaders within the program. He’s also founded multiple companies of his own. Today, through Driven By Leaders, he coaches executives and leadership teams across Columbus, Dublin, and Central Ohio, plus virtually nationwide.

Driven By Leaders provides executive coaching, team workshops, leadership training, and consulting built around the Seven Pillars framework from Mark’s book, Firm Foundations — a practical system for building teams that hold together under real pressure, not just on paper.

Mark works primarily with CEOs, presidents, executives, and senior leaders responsible for building or rebuilding a team — whether that’s a five-person department or an organization with hundreds of leaders. Clients typically come to Mark when they’re scaling quickly, inheriting a broken culture, or professionalizing a team that has outgrown its original structure.

Mark isn’t teaching theory he read about — he’s teaching what he’s done. He has personally managed teams numbering in the thousands, run large marketing budgets, and designed leadership development plans that scaled organizations to more than 200 leaders inside the program. That operating experience, not just consulting experience, is what shapes every framework, workshop, and coaching conversation.

Sessions commonly cover building teams that hold together under pressure, leadership identity and decision-making, communication and conflict resolution, culture-building and accountability, scaling leadership development across a growing organization, and aligning marketing and operations at the executive level.

No. While many of Mark’s clients are CEOs, presidents, and founders, he also coaches directors, VPs, and emerging leaders who are being trusted with bigger teams and want to lead them well from day one.

Firm Foundations is Mark’s book — a functional guide to building effective teams in the modern marketplace, built on the same handful of building blocks Mark noticed showing up in every team he built that actually worked. It’s available on Amazon.

Mark is based in Dublin, Ohio and works in person with leaders and teams across Columbus and Central Ohio. Coaching and consulting are also available virtually for clients anywhere in the country.

The best first step is a short introductory call — 30 minutes, no pitch, no pressure — just a clear read on where your team stands and whether Driven By Leaders is a fit. You can request a call through the contact page.