About Sigma Resource Group

Since 1982 SIGMA Resource Group has been helping business leaders and their companies achieve their goals. We help business owners, leaders, and entrepreneurs break through organizational and personal limitations and plan and lead their companies to long term success. Our one driving goal has been and always will be to help clients achieve results.

Mark Akerley – Mark has the unique ability to simultaneously be both an Advisor and Leader for his clients. Clients and colleagues point out his excellent listening and analytic abilities combined with his drive and know-how to get things done. For more than 20 years as founder and President of Sigma Resource Group he has worked with companies of all sizes and in many industries – including Aetna, Blue Cross Blue Shield, GE, Penn National, EMC, AMA, American Automobile Association - and over 200 other organizations. Mark’s leadership has resulted in companies significantly improving service, quality, productivity, and operating results.

Mark’s real passion is working with small to mid-sized companies and their business owners and top teams to help them set and achieve realistic yet “stretch” goals. As he says, “it’s all about results and fulfillment for the business leader.”

Prior to co-founding his own company, Mark spent ten years in industry with Signature Financial and ITT Hartford as Vice President of Operations and Business Analyst. He has also served the Boards of several companies, served on the leadership council for the Lincoln Foundation to help Illinois companies achieve excellence, and currently is a director of two non-profit organizations. Mark has been awarded degrees in business, economics, and organizational improvement. He has authored and co-authored several instructional handbooks for business leaders including “Fundamentals of Productivity Improvement,” “Performance for Profit,” “Continuous Improvement in a Discontinuous Workplace,” “Becoming Better Leaders,” and “Strategic Edge: a simple but not easy process for producing winning results.”

Mark is an FAA licensed pilot where even in his leisure time he continually challenges himself, attempting to fly sailplanes (airplanes without engines) cross country – sometimes successfully and sometimes not.

Partial List of Clients

Arbitration Forum Biodyne Cameron Group Eva Maddox Associates Daily Herald EMC Germania Mutual Trust Life Farm Mutual Fortis Financial Guarantee Reserve Horton Group Guy Carpenter MGH Health Montgomery Mutual Mountain West Farm Bureau Newcastle Companies PAMIC Partners Group Penn National Quaker Oats Security Benefit Rowe Companies US dept of Agriculture US Postal Service Interstate Merchants & Business Owners Assn. Preferred Mutual Amtrak Robert Taylor Associates Business Engineering TIACP IBR Services ARAMARK Northwestern Memorial Hospital American Medical Association Blue Cross Blue Shield Certified Grocers Perseco Richard Morton Company

Charming Shops Sterling Stainless Tube Nielson Clearing House Boatman’s Bank Fort Dearborn Life Holmes Murphy & Associates Management Programs Inc Federal Reserve Bank Montgomery Ward Farm Bureau North American Insurance Official Airine Guides Mid Central Foods Walter Heller Financial UARCO American Medical Association Heinold Commodities Elangy Littman Jewelers Channel Home Centers Regency Savings Bank Exchange National Bank Signature Group McCrory Stores American Dental Association Alliance Insurance Co Employers Health Insurance Aetna The Brethren Mutual Insurance Co. National Assn for Mutual Insurance Co’s MEDCO Follett College Stores AAA-American Automobile Assn. J.C. Penny Lewis Paper Inc. Chicago Beverage Systems Alliance of American Insurers Amerisafe Town of Franklin Village of Rocky Hill ITT