MARK LIGHT - Key Persons

Job Titles:

• Executive Director, Project VIDA ( Testimonial )

Mark Light is President of First Light Group where he strengthens leaders to Do Great Good. He is a trusted and seasoned leadership coach, a master teacher known for inspiring and actionable learning, and a street-smart writer. His leadership experience includes 15 seasons transforming the undiscovered Victoria Theatre into a top-30 arts center where he was a decade-long Tony Awards voter. Mark holds a BFA from Drake University, MBA from UCLA, Ph.D. from the Antioch University Graduate School of Leadership and Change. As a trusted leadership coach, Mark is an International Coach Federation Associate Certified Coach, an iPEC Certified Professional Coach, a Gallup Certified Strengths Coach, and a Certified Facilitator for Everthing DiSC Workplace and Management, and the Five Behaviors for teams. He is certified to use all of the Center for Creative Leadership's assessments and he is a graduate of CCL's Coaching for Greater Effectiveness and Leadership Development programs. Mark is a master teacher whose classroom is anywhere leaders attend his active-learning seminars. He was consistently the highest rated full teaching professor at DePaul University's School of Public Service where 95% of students would take another course of his, and an instructor at Case Western Reserve University's Weatherhead School of Management where he received the prestigious Mandel Center Teaching Award. Mark's street-smart writing has led to three published books: Results Now, The Strategic Board, both from Wiley & Sons, and Executive Committee from BoardSource where he served for many years on its Council of Editorial Advisors. He has written for Board Member magazine, the Nonprofit Management and Leadership Journal, and he writes for the Nonprofit Quarterly, which is home to his 32 Dr. Conflict and You First columns.