Transform Your Workplace Into A

High-Performance Center

Are you tired of fighting constant workplace battles that drain your energy and undermine your bottom line?

What if you could transform your organization into a high-performing team where everyone operates with interest, purpose, passion, and engagement?

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2024 & 2025 National Association of Manufacturer (NAM) Award Winner

We are thrilled to announce that we have been awarded the 2024 Leadership Award in Transforming Business Cultures and the 2025 Leadership Award in the Collaborative Ecosystems!

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In today’s business environment

Career Misalignment is the silent killer
of organizational performance

This lack of shared vision, values, and goals leads to

  • A culture of disengagement where people are just ‘working’ instead of ‘performing.’

  • Leaders are trapped managing symptoms instead of driving strategy and innovation.

  • Internal politics erode trust, preventing the formation of a high performing, unified team.

  • You’re left with the pressure to deliver results, but without a clear framework for building a culture of alignment.

The Breakthrough

The Industrial Athlete Operating System wasn’t born from a single flash of insight, but through years of collaborative problem-solving at Humtown Products. When facing potential bankruptcy, the leadership team—including Mark Lamoncha and Tim Figley—recognized that traditional management approaches were failing them.

“We discovered that the fundamental issue wasn’t our products or processes, but how we viewed our workforce. Our breakthrough came when we collectively shifted from seeing workers as employees to recognizing them as Industrial Athletes capable of peak performance.”

  • Tim Figley

This core mindset shift—from ‘job’ to ‘career,’ from ‘working’ to ‘performing’—is what saved Humtown and propelled it to become an industry leader in innovation. This is the proven system we now share with other organizations ready to build their own high-performing, unified teams.

The Industrial Athlete Operating System

The Industrial Athlete Operating System (IA-OS) is a proven four-shift framework that any organization can implement:

  1. Management to Coaching Shift: Move from traditional command-and-control to a coaching mindset that empowers your team.
  2. Employee to Industrial Athlete Shift: Transform your workforce’s identity from passive employees to engaged, high-performing Industrial Athletes.
  3. Workplace to Performance Center Shift: Redesign your environment to facilitate peak performance rather than just task completion.
  4. Egosystem to Ecosystem Shift: Replace internal competition and power struggles with a collaborative ecosystem where everyone wins together.
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Client Testimonials

Jim Tressel Five-Time National Championship Coach

Mark and Tim have developed a winning “Game Plan” for business and industry that can create success for ALL groups and teams. Dig in, study their system, apply the principles, and your TEAM can also become a championship TEAM.

Jim Dittmar Author of The LEADERS Model

The Industrial Athlete Operating System is a wonderful, encouraging story of how owner of Humtown Products, Mark Lamoncha, “snatched victory from the jaws of defeat.” However, this book is more than a story with a great ending. Mark and co-author Tim Figley articulate in detail the program that not only saved the company from bankruptcy but one you can also use to move into the “Zone” of amazing employee/team empowerment.

Bob Sebo Retired Senior Vice President Paychex, Inc.

Mark fits every description you can give relative to a business individual, kind, charitable, a leader, a personality, and a very brilliant gentleman. He has recognized special needs and is able to quickly provide solutions within the business world

Jim Tressel Five-Time National Championship Coach

Mark and Tim have developed a winning “Game Plan” for business and industry that can create success for ALL groups and teams. Dig in, study their system, apply the principles, and your TEAM can also become a championship TEAM.

Bob Sebo Retired Senior Vice President Paychex, Inc.

Mark fits every description you can give relative to a business individual, kind, charitable, a leader, a personality, and a very brilliant gentleman. He has recognized special needs and is able to quickly provide solutions within the business world

Jim Dittmar Author of The LEADERS Model

The Industrial Athlete Operating System is a wonderful, encouraging story of how owner of Humtown Products, Mark Lamoncha, “snatched victory from the jaws of defeat.” However, this book is more than a story with a great ending. Mark and co-author Tim Figley articulate in detail the program that not only saved the company from bankruptcy but one you can also use to move into the “Zone” of amazing employee/team empowerment.

Jim Tressel Five-Time National Championship Coach

Mark and Tim have developed a winning “Game Plan” for business and industry that can create success for ALL groups and teams. Dig in, study their system, apply the principles, and your TEAM can also become a championship TEAM.

Jim Dittmar Author of The LEADERS Model

The Industrial Athlete Operating System is a wonderful, encouraging story of how owner of Humtown Products, Mark Lamoncha, “snatched victory from the jaws of defeat.” However, this book is more than a story with a great ending. Mark and co-author Tim Figley articulate in detail the program that not only saved the company from bankruptcy but one you can also use to move into the “Zone” of amazing employee/team empowerment.

Bob Sebo Retired Senior Vice President Paychex, Inc.

Mark fits every description you can give relative to a business individual, kind, charitable, a leader, a personality, and a very brilliant gentleman. He has recognized special needs and is able to quickly provide solutions within the business world

Meet the Authors

Mark Lamoncha

Entrepreneur, Inventor, Author, and Community Leader

A life dedicated to releasing the potential of Industrial Athletes everywhere.Mark Lamoncha is an award-winning entrepreneur, inventor, author, and community leader. For more than four decades, he has been the...

Dr. Tim Figley

Organizational Strategist, Author, Sports Broadcaster, Speaker

Dr. Tim Figley is an organizational strategist, sports broadcaster, researcher, author, and keynote speaker. He has facilitated strategic plans, family business transitions, and team retreats for hundreds of industry-leading...