Meet Mark

Personal

• Name: Mark
• Playsonality™: Humorist
• Play DNA™: Witty Independent
• Country of Residence: USA
  
  

Education

• Primary School(s): St. Paul (MN)
• High School(s): Minneapolis (MN)
• Higher Education: The College of William and Mary / Williamsburg, VA; Columbia University / New York, NY.

Play at Work

• Current Occupation: Education Leader, Award-winning Content Creator, Published Author, Podcaster, and Creativity Consultant

Mark is a storyteller, educator, and creativity evangelist who believes laughter is often the shortest distance to real insight.

Mark takes a positively disruptive approach as a creative consultant, content creator, and brand strategist, helping businesses, organizations, and individuals not just script their success stories but enjoy the ride. His work leans into humor as both scalpel and glue—cutting through stale thinking and binding teams together with moments of shared fun.

As an educator, Mark currently serves as Program Director for Integrated Media at the Isaacson School of Communication, Arts and Media at Colorado Mountain College. What he loves most about “integrated media” is that he's finally found a specialty non-specific enough to keep things interesting. Previously, he served as Director of Creative Studies, Academic Dean, and founding Chair for Digital Media in the first BFA program launched in partnership with a major Holly wood studio.

As a storyteller, Mark is a published author (The Patron Saint of Used Cars and Second Chances — Rodale Books), former magazine columnist, and an Academy Award–winning filmmaker (Christmas in New York, Best Student Film).

For Mark, play, humor, and creativity aren't side dishes—they're the main course in a life devoted to helping human beings think, feel, breathe, and, above all, laugh their way toward truer solutions. Mark's first writing teacher once said, "I know you want to be Eugene O'Neill — your problem is you're funny.”