LATEST GOV'T CONTRACTOR BOOKS

How to Win in the Government Market (w/Mark Amtower) 

The Essential Guide to Managing a Government Project

How to Develop a Winning Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Proposal (w/Eric Adolphe)

New Video: 22 GOVCON Business Growth Horror Stories & What They Can Teach us

ABOUT MIKE LISAGOR

- Author & columnist

- GovCon BD/capture/proposal & project management expert 

- Blues musician

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Since founding Celerity Works in 1999, Mike has helped over 70 contractors grow their government business by implementing business development, capture and proposal processes. He has also implemented the project management process and training for large companies like ManTech and many small businesses. He is also a co-founder and Chief Knowledge Officer at GovFlex.com (matches government contractors with freelance experts) where he built one of the most comprehensive 'How to Do Business with the Government' libraries. Most recently, Mike joined the Advisory Board of Whirlwind Technologies.

Starting in the 1970s, Mike worked was a government contractor hardware and software engineer, IT project manager, business developer, and a domestic and international vice president. Then from 1990 to 1999, he was a business development executive for three government IT contractors. Over his career, he has been responsible for several hundred million dollars of new business. In 1999, he relinquished his suit and tie to start a consulting company, Celerity Works.

A FED100 awardee & AFFIRM emeritus board member, Mike has written several books and hundreds of articles for, among others, Washington Technology, GovLoop and Federal Computer Week. He was the co-founder of the annual Federal Program Management Summit, implemented the acquisition risk management process at GSA FEDSIM, made 100+ presentations in the U.S., Europe & Asia, and did ten highly regarded GovCon webinars for Centurion Research Solutions (now part of Deltek). 

Mike lives and hikes with his wife of 50+ years on an island in the Pacific Northwest where he can be heard most days playing harmonica and piano.

Mike is the author of:

How to Win in the Government Market (with Mark Amtower)

The Essential Guide to Managing a Government Project.

How to Develop a Winning Small Business Innovation Proposal (with Eric Adolphe)

The Enlightened Manager

Personal Growth in the Time of COVID

My 50 Years of Buddhist Practice

Romancing the Buddha, also a successful one-man show on YouTube.

Contact Mike at: LinkedIn.com/in/mikelisagor