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Helping government contractors grow their business since 1999

Mike Lisagor of Celerity Works

Mike Lisagor

Mike Lisagor founded Celerity Works in 1999 to help government contractor executives accelerate their revenue growth. He is also the Centurion Research Solutions government business development (BD) subject matter expert. He has facilitated planning retreats and implemented market research, BD, capture and proposal processes and training programs for over 60 companies who have benefited from lessons learned from over 450 business growth assessment interviews and 250 coaching assignments.  Mike specializes in improving established contractor’s sales return on investment and helping commercial businesses successfully expand into the public sector.

Prior to 1999, Mike was a government contractor vice president of domestic and international BD for over ten years and, before that, an information technology program manager. He has an MS in Management, taught marketing for managers at National Louis University and implemented the project risk management process and training for GSA FEDSIM. A 1999 & 2002 Fed 100 awardee, Mike is the co-chair of the WTIA B2G community, an emeritus board member of AFFIRM and the author of Winning and Managing Government Business and The Enlightened Manager. Mike writes a weekly business development blog and conducts the Centurion Federal Contractor Knowledge Webinars.