Maverick Author
MARK HATTAS
Entrepreneur, Award-Winning Author & Spiritual Leadership Coach
"In surrender, we lead. In alignment, we rise."
About Mark Hattas
Mark Hattas is a visionary entrepreneur, award-winning author, and spiritual leadership coach whose work sits at the intersection of business transformation, mental health restoration, and divine alignment. As founder and former CEO of Geneca, a software development firm that grew to 150 team members and nearly $20M in annual revenue, Mark understands the pressures and triumphs of building successful organizations—and the spiritual refinement that comes through business challenges.
As an accomplished author, Mark has written multiple transformative books including The Lowly Prophet, a 6x award-winning bestseller that guides readers through mental health restoration and spiritual awakening, and Awakening Your Optimal Workforce, which introduces the Beatitudes as elements of well-being through an entertaining business fable. His work bridges the gap between marketplace success and spiritual formation, helping leaders discover that their greatest breakthroughs often come through their deepest transformations.
As a spiritual leadership coach, Mark has guided entrepreneurs, executives, and thought leaders through profound personal and professional transformations. He specializes in helping leaders activate their divine guidance system, navigate mental health challenges through spiritual healing, and lead from alignment rather than striving. Mark's coaching philosophy is simple but revolutionary: business challenges are spiritual refinement opportunities, and true Maverick Leadership flows from surrender, centeredness, and alignment with divine intelligence.
Chapter: "Led by Fire, Forged for Purpose"
"True leadership requires inner transformation. Business challenges are spiritual refinement opportunities."
In his transformative chapter for Maverick Leadership, Mark Hattas reveals the hidden truth that most leaders never discover—that divine guidance trumps human logic, that surrender wins over striving, and that the Beatitudes provide the ultimate blueprint for Maverick Leadership. Through powerful stories of business miracles and spiritual transformation, Mark exposes how leaders unknowingly prioritize performance over alignment—and provides the exact pathway to lead from divine intelligence instead of human effort.
Mark opens with a confession: he began writing his chapter to prove himself—to showcase sales success, smart moves, and strategic wins. But God interrupted with a redirecting message: "Mark, you are my son. A child of God. Act like one." That moment changed everything. This chapter isn't about proving strength. It's about revealing His.
"A true Maverick Leader isn't just bold. They are surrendered, centered, and aligned."
Through his journey from GE Medical Systems sales executive to tech entrepreneur to spiritual guide, Mark provides a framework that maverick leaders use to transform both their businesses and their lives: hear God's voice and act boldly, trust divine timing over logic, embrace business challenges as spiritual refinement, and recognize that the Beatitudes aren't just religious principles—they're the operating system for aligned leadership. The chapter culminates with three penetrating questions that reveal whether you're leading from performance or presence: Are you truly happy? Can you explain how the Beatitudes apply to your life? Where are you in developing your spiritual gifts? Mark's challenge is clear: "Stop leading from striving. Stop proving your strength. Stop managing through human logic alone and start leading through divine alignment."
What You'll Learn
The Divine Instinct Framework: How Mark predicted the 2008 recession impact on his building lease, navigated a $350K client bankruptcy with integrity, and sold his company at the exact timing and amount he'd foreseen three years earlier—and how to develop your own spiritual "superpowers"
The Transformation vs. Mental Health Crisis Distinction: Why Mark's three hospitalizations weren't just a breakdown but a breakthrough—and how most mental health issues are actually stunted transformations caused by resistance to the changes your soul needs to thrive
The Beatitudes as Business Blueprint: How living the Beatitudes in your 40s transforms every part of your leadership—not through religious performance but through spiritual alignment that creates peace, clarity, and divine purpose in your organization
The Surrender Wins Principle: The eight-year real estate journey that taught Mark God's outcomes exceed human strategies—including a perfect all-cash offer that came one day before foreclosure when lawyers insisted disaster was imminent
The Aligned Leader's Daily Practice: How to activate your divine guidance system, distinguish between inspired thoughts and mental noise, and lead from the overflow of spiritual intelligence rather than the depletion of human effort
Three Transformative Takeaways:
1. When God Speaks, Listen—Even When It Makes No Logical Sense
Divine instinct trumps human logic. When Mark's team pressured him to lease additional office space in 2007, logic said act now. But his spirit said wait. A year later, the Great Recession left half his building vacant and he secured the same space for half the price. When God said "sell the business" in 2006, Mark didn't know how. But he obeyed, and in 2010 it happened exactly as God had shown him—the timing, the amount, even the details. Maverick leaders value what their spirit knows, even when logic can't explain it.
2. Business Challenges Aren't Obstacles—They're Spiritual Refinement Opportunities
Most leaders treat business crises as problems to solve. Mark learned they're invitations to transformation. The $350K client bankruptcy that forced layoffs taught him to act honorably always—and contractors who'd been let go became his biggest supporters. The real estate nightmare with foreclosure threats became his greatest faith-building experience. The mental health crisis after his business exit became the doorway to his true calling. Chaos is often the beginning of creation. Your breakthrough isn't around the challenge—it's through it.
3. True Maverick Leadership Flows From Alignment, Not Achievement
Management gurus teach goal-setting. Mark teaches God-listening. The Beatitudes aren't religious suggestions—they're the blueprint for leadership that lasts. When Mark learned to live them in his 40s, they became his compass. The transformation wasn't just personal—it elevated every part of his leadership. Today Mark mentors leaders differently: not through performance coaching but through presence activation. He helps leaders align with God, activate their inner guidance, and trust divine intelligence. A true Maverick Leader isn't just bold. They are surrendered, centered, and aligned with a power greater than themselves.
Mark’s Impact
Mark's leadership extends beyond his entrepreneurial success to building multiple transformative ventures: spiritual coaching programs that activate divine guidance systems, mental health resources that honor the transformation process, and award-winning books that bridge marketplace success with spiritual formation. As founder and former CEO of Geneca, Mark built a 150-person software development firm that reached nearly $20M in annual revenue before his exit—navigating the 2008 recession, client bankruptcies, and explosive growth through divine instinct and aligned partnership. As an accomplished author, Mark has written The Lowly Prophet (6x award-winning bestseller), Awakening Your Optimal Workforce, and other transformative works that guide readers through mental health restoration and spiritual awakening. As a spiritual leadership coach, Mark helps entrepreneurs and executives navigate their own transformation journeys, activate spiritual gifts, and lead from alignment rather than striving. He lives his mission daily: helping leaders release the false self, navigate transformation, and inspire others to live as God intends—building a movement of aligned leaders who understand that in surrender, we lead, and in alignment, we rise.
Connect with Mark Hattas
Website: www.markhattas.com
Free Resources: thelowlyprophet.com/spiritualgifts-maverick-hattas
