Mark Zajac Email & Phone Number

Greensboro/Winston-Salem, North Carolina Area

Team Triad Coaching assists individuals in realizing their full business goals and personal aspirations. We recognize that no one is born a “business owner” and that we often don’t know what we don’t know. Every individual is unique, with a different set of goals and dreams determined by what motivates us in life. We help you to understand WHY you are in business in order to better assist you in establishing your ultimate destination, as well as the WHAT and HOW to get there. We help create awareness of blind spots and opportunities, provide access to tools, strategies and resources to ensure success and hold you accountable in the pursuit and realization of your dreams. We have organized and aligned several strategic partners who share our vision and offer services that are common solutions to many of our clients’ needs.

Certified LifeZone4 Advisor and Life Coach dedicated to assisting companies and individuals meet the challenges of handling competing responsibilities more effectively. “Making a difference” is our purpose. It is our goal to help you identify the work-life areas that are out of balance for you personally and focus your efforts on enhancing the quality of your life. As a result, you will see powerful positive results in yourself, your family, and your work. LifeZone4 trains employees at every level to manage their own work-life balance while holding themselves accountable for necessary results. Our interactive approach challenges people’s established priorities and encourages you to find new solutions to old problems. You will learn how to keep personal life stressors from interfering with job performance and overall wellbeing. That’s great for your employees, naturally, but also outstanding for your company!

Business coach in North Carolina. I coached owners of privately-held, family-owned businesses and helped them significantly grow their profits, address blind spots and build strong teams to help run their business for them, so they could get some time back for themselves.

Successfully managed and guided development and delivery of Pest Management, Consumer and Vegetation Management projects in NAFTA and prepared efficacy packages and labels for submission to EPA. Coordinated effort between business units and the science and technical support functions (e.g. BR&D, Reg Affairs, Formulations, Packaging, etc.). Provided technical support for third party customers. Strengthened NAFTA working relationship with global headquarters and influenced development and rollout of new products throughout the world.• Created a patented product design to provide access to multi-million dollar market.• Reduced duplication of effort costs and increased speed to market of new products through joint development with other business units and marketing teams. • Shortened global product launches by 6 months to more than a year in Europe, Asia Pacific and Latin America by cooperating closely with marketing, regulatory and technical personnel in countries throughout the world.

Basel, Switzerland. Successfully managed product development and technical aspects of global Turf, Ornamental, Vegetation Management and Home and Garden product portfolios. Established consistent technical positioning, trained key customers, and assisted in global product launches. Established and maintained close working relationships with customers and centers of influence in Japan, South Africa, Australia and western Europe.• Created technical positioning and coordinated development, registration and launch of multimillion dollar global turf product portfolio outside of NAFTA.• Developed technical product training materials and programs, trained over 500 end-user customers, and coordinated technical launch of new Australian and South African product portfolio rollout. Recognized for contributing to effective launch of turf portfolio.• Secured key European product registrations by building strong key influencer relationships.

W. Lafayette, IN. Professional Products (Turf and Ornamentals) markets. Provided product support, customer training, complaint resolution and served as liaison to university centers of excellence for 11 US states.• Increased sports turf product portfolio visibility and market share by developing pest control programs with major league baseball and NFL stadium superintendents.

Managed/conducted regulatory and efficacy testing of experimental and registered pesticides (herbicide, insecticide, fungicide) and served as liaison to University personnel. Managed development of use directions for various products. Assisted sales with grower/dealer meetings and complaint resolution.• Prevented 25 - 50% loss in sales of blockbuster product and devaluation of major market segment by designing and facilitating national meeting of key stakeholders (including university, government, industry and private contractors).

Conducted research in corn, soybean and cereal entomology, plant pathology and weed science. Managed protocol development, experimental design, pesticide application, damage/control assessment, data analysis and interpretation. Served as site Group Leader, coordinating field staff and performing various administrative duties including public relations. Served as Meeting Facilitator in inter and intra-departmental "problem solving" sessions.

Ph.D., Entomology

Presidential Fellowship Faculty Search Committee First place (Ph.D. level); Second annual forum for student paper competition

Ms, Economic Entomology

Departmental Review Committee Graduated with Special Distinction.

Bs, Entomology

Graduated with Distinction Outstanding Undergraduate Student Award in Entomology. Elected Gamma Sigma Delta.