The Breckenridge Institute
P.O. Box 5050
Breckenridge, Colorado 80424
USA
Tel (719) 836-9797
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E-mail: mark@breckenridgeinstitute.com
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Mark is the Executive Director of the Breckenridge Institute - a “think tank” for the study of organizational culture. The Institute has expertise in seven traditional areas of organization development, but views them as “windows” into the underlying patterns of organizational culture. This includes: a) Organizational Architecture, b) Operations, c) Business Strategy, d) IT Infrastructure, e) Advanced Analytics, f) Financial Management, and g) Human Performance Improvement.

Mark is an adjunct faculty member at Colorado Mountain College and has a BA from Mid-America University, an MA from Wheaton College, and an AM from the University of Chicago. His professional work and research focus on understanding the processes by which corporate culture: a) is formed, b) operates, and c) is changed. He uses state-of-the-art assessment tools developed by the Breckenridge Institute in combination with traditional methods of organization development, advanced analytics, qualitative analysis from cultural anthropology, and personality type to study corporate culture. Mark is particularly interested in exploring the ways in which corporate cultures attract (or reject) employees with specific personality types, and the degree to which a uniform portfolio of employees positively or negatively affects an organization’s performance.

He has published widely in the areas of corporate culture and leadership development and is the author of two books, Diving In: Discovering Who You Are In the Second Half of Life and Island of Excellence: 3 Powerful Strategies for Building Creative Organizations. He is currently working on a third book entitled, What You See Is What You Get that describes how the Breckenridge Institute’s Harnessing Process™ is used to affect deep, sustainable, cultural change.