Mark Beese

Mark is President of Leadership for Lawyers, LLC, a consultancy focused on helping lawyers and other professionals become better leaders and business developers.  He provides training, coaching and consultation to firms in the areas of leadership development, business development and marketing. His clients range from small, single office firms to global Amlaw 100 firms.  He is a frequent speaker on the topic of leadership to law firms, professional associations and law firm networks.

Mark has more than 20 years experience as an in-house chief marketing officer/marketing director for professional services firms. Mark is the former Chief Marketing Officer for Holland & Hart, a 450 attorney law firm with 15 offices throughout the Mountain West of the United States.  The Marketing Partner Forum named Mark “Marketing Director of the Year”. He also received the “IQ Award” for innovation by the Boulder County Business Report. 

American Lawyer Media’s “Marketing the Law Firm Journal” named Holland & Hart among the top 12 law firms in the United States for marketing excellence.  The Legal Marketing Association bestowed five “Your Honor Awards” to Holland & Hart under Mark’s direction, in the areas of community involvement, branding, multi-media advertising, market research, and events.  PR News also awarded the firm a PR Legal News Award.   IOMA’s “Partners Report for Law Firm Owners” featured Mark in its “Exercising Leadership” section. Holland & Hart’s web site was named the top law firm web site in the United States, by internetmarketingattorney.com.

A Fellow of the College of Law Practice Management, Mark is an Adjunct Professor at the University of Denver Sturm College of Law, where he teaches Strategic Marketing and Business Development. 

He is certified and trained to administer several assessments, including the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI), FIRO-B and the Leadership Practices Inventory (LPI).

Prior to joining Holland & Hart, Mark served as Director of Marketing for the New York law firm of Hodgson Russ, LLP and Director of Marketing for Kideney Architects in Buffalo, New York. 

Mark received his B.S. and M.B.A. (cum laude) from the University of Buffalo.  He is a graduate of two community leadership programs, Leadership Denver and Leadership Buffalo.  He is a former board member of the International Legal Marketing Association and past president of the Rocky Mountain Legal Marketing Association.  He is a past chair of the Marketing Committee of Terralex, an international association of law firms in 93 countries.  He serves as a faculty member of the Marketing Directors Institute and is a frequent speaker at the Marketing Partner Forum and the Legal Marketing Association conferences.  Mark is the former chair of the national LMA Your Honor Award Program and judge in the Marketing Partner Forum Elite Awards for Marketing Excellence and the Association of Accounting Marketing Awards Program.  He is a frequent contributor to law practice management publications.

He volunteers with the Boy Scouts of America and the Metro Denver Sports Commission.   He is the former chair of the Leadership Denver Alumni Association, and a past board member of the Denver Metro Chamber Foundation.  In 2005, the Denver Business Journal named Mark as one of Denver’s 40 under Forty leaders.