Leonard Mack

Leonard is an Information Technology Professional, Author, Entrepreneur, Investor, Strategist, Techie, Visionary, Adventurer, Pilot, and Car & Airplane Enthusiast in Northeast Ohio

He is a true self-starting innovator and a goal-driven professional with a proven ability and general passion for information technology. Enthusiastic about making technology work for people while thinking outside the box and finding creative ways to solve problems and develop effective solutions.  Leonard has proven experience with implementing technology in the areas retail, manufacturing, financial services, transportation, government, and logistics while integrating technology in all areas of business and commerce.
 
He started his entrepreneurial ventures when he was 7 years old going door to door selling random rocks collected in his yard. He offered them for 10 cents a piece or two for a quarter. He only managed to sell two – for a quarter. (Do the math!)
 
While growing up, Leonard spent many days working with his father, a successful attorney based in Akron, Ohio. There he gained a great work ethic and extensive experience in the law.  While in high school and working part time in his father’s law office, he consulted businesses and professionals (mainly accountants, lawyers, and doctors) on their I/T needs and fixing their computer systems. At this point, all of his I/T experience was self-taught.
 
Leonard attended the University of Akron where he focused on Business Management, Marketing, Entrepreneurship and Business Law. While attending college, he came up with a business concept of a cyber café and opened the Hard Drive Cafe, one of the first cybercafes in the USA, in the summer of 1997. He sold it five years later and returned to consulting and then moved to Columbus to take on various roles in the I/T industry.
 
Leonard has worked with and consulted hundreds of companies, from small start-ups to Fortune 100 companies, on their information technology needs.  He also started or has been part of many start-ups and businesses. Most were grown and sold or merged into other businesses.
 
Leonard wrote the the entrepreneurial business book “Winning Habitudes: 99 Habits and Attitudes of Leaders, Visionaries and Achievers”. It is available in print, ebook, and audiobook on Amazon, Audible, Barnes & Noble and many other retail establishments. He is also currently working on several other business, motivational and personal finance books himself and helping other authors with their own published works through his Winning Habitudes Collection publishing collective.
 
Leonard has a considerable interest in investing and finance and is the founder of ColumbusFI ( www.ColumbusFI.com ) assisting others reach Financial Indepndence.
 
In his spare time, Leonard enjoys traveling, aviation, technology, the outdoors (including hiking and camping). Leonard is a FAA licensed Pilot, FCC licensed amateur radio operator. He is a lifetime member of the Experimental Aircraft Association and also achieved the rank of Eagle Scout and has been active in DeMolay and Freemasonry.
 
Leonard also serves on the board of several 501(c)3 non-profit organizations.