Mike Lisagor, the founder of Celerity Works, is a trusted advisor providing expert business development (BD), acquisition, contracting, project management, coaching and training to federal contractors and government agencies. Mike has implemented market research, BD, capture, and proposal processes as well as both online and in-person project management (PM) training programs for over 70 contractors who benefited from lessons learned from over 450 business growth assessment interviews and 250 coaching assignments.
Mike is also a co-founder of GovFlex.com, an online service that matches government contractors and agencies with the best independent consultants. As the Chief Knowledge Officer, he developed the GovFlex Knowledge Academy, the industry’s largest online best practices library with hundreds of articles, templates, and checklists. Mike was also a minority owner and the government contracting and business development subject matter expert for Centurion Research Solutions, one of the two leading federal opportunity market research firms until being acquired by Deltek in November 2013.
Mr. Lisagor was also a U.S. and International business development and operations executive for 13 years at Lockheed Martin, CTA, ANSTEC and ATS. Prior to that, he was an information technology program and new business capture manager, leading the capture activities for several hundreds of millions of dollars in contract awards at the DOD, FAA, FBI, and DOT.
A FED100 awardee and emeritus AFFIRM board member, Mike has written several books and hundreds of articles for several publications including, Washington Technology and Federal Computer Week. He was the co-founder of the annual Federal Program Management Summit and implemented the Acquisition Risk Management process at GSA FEDSIM.
Mr. Lisagor holds a Bachelor of Science in Urban Studies from California State University at Northridge and a Master of Science in Management from National Louis University where he taught Marketing for managers. He lives with his wife of 50+ years on an island in the Pacific Northwest where he plays harmonica and sings in a local blues band.
