TEAM
Mark Light,
MBA, Ph.D. has more than 20 years of
frontline leadership experience. Known for his contagious enthusiasm and high
energy, he is president and founder of First Light®
Group LLC, which is Putting Your Future Within Reach®
with client-centered services including coaching,
presentations,
publishing, and Results Now®.
As a practioner,
Mark's past experience includes 15 seasons as
president of the Victoria Theatre
Association where he inaugurated its
famous "You are the star"
mission and led its turnaround into a top-30 performing arts
center with audiences
up five-fold to 900,000,
annual income boosted 24-fold to $21.3 million, and the opening of three
new venues including
the $130 million Schuster Center. He was a
decade-long Tony
Awards®
voter and won the first ever Outstanding Achievement
in Presenter Management Award from the League of American Theatres and Producers,
whose members vote on the Tony's.
As an author, John
Wiley
& Sons published Mark's first
book, The Strategic Board, and BoardSource published his
Executive Committee. Wiley will publish his
newest book,
Results Now, in 2010. His writing has appeared in Board Member
magazine, the Nonprofit Management and Leadership Journal,
and the Nonprofit Quarterly, which is home to Mark's Dr. Conflict
advice column.
As an educator, Mark is
an affiliate faculty member at the Mandel Center for Nonprofit Organizations at Case Western Reserve University where he
is the 2010 Mandel Center Teaching Award recipient.
As a volunteer, Mark is a mediator for the Dayton Mediation Center and
serves on the ARNOVA development committee. His past board service includes
Mound Street Academies,
the Ohio Association of
Nonprofit Organizations, Bank One - Dayton
NA,
the National Alliance for Musical Theatre, and AIDS Foundation Miami Valley.
Mark is a member of
the Kellogg Action Lab College of Consultants providing services to WK Kellogg
Foundation grantees. He holds a BFA from
Drake University, an MBA from UCLA, and
a Ph.D.
from Antioch University. Click on the link for Mark's
curriculum
vitae.
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