Mark Clark Mbe. Ws.

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ABOUT MARK CLARK MBE. WS.

Mark is passionate about transformational change in individuals, organisations, and communities. He provides consulting and coaching support for people wrestling with leadership challenges, complexity, and conflict, focused on developing individual and collective capabilities to become high-performing teams through:• rethinking leadership, complexity, and conflict• embracing complexity, sense-making, systems thinking, and power dynamics• deploying different leadership behaviours for a crisis, technical problem, or complex “wicked” problem• developing collaborative leadership for private and public value creation• understanding conflict, individual emotions, conflict-avoidance and organisational defensive routines • developing capacities for transformational dialogue and building trust• developing effective practices for individual and organisational reflection and learning, to bridge the “knowing/doing” gapMark is an Associate Fellow & Programme Director at Oxford Saïd Business School, and also works with Glasgow Adam Smith Business School, IMD Lausanne, Henley Business School, Duke CE, UK Government, NHS, Microsoft, Equinor, Siemens Energy, Bank of China, Visa, etc.With 30 years’ experience at the intersection of leadership, complexity, and conflict, Mark has worked with different governments, NGOs, the Olympic movement, in corporate law and the private sector; in the UK, India, Iraq, D.R. Congo, Papua New Guinea, and Jordan, where he served for 12 years as CEO of Generations For Peace, a global peacebuilding organisation with peacebuilders in 52 countries. Mark graduated magna cum laude from University of Oxford Saïd Business School & HEC Paris (MSc); Université Lyon 1 (MA); University of Edinburgh (LLB-Hons; DipLP); and Royal Military Academy Sandhurst. He has certificates in Transformative Dialogue (Nansen Centre for Peace and Dialogue); Community Dispute Resolution (Colorado State University); Non-Violent Communication (Centre for Nonviolent Communication); Conflict Resolution, Transformation & Peacebuilding (International Centre for Parliamentary Studies); Group Relations (Tavistock Institute); and AI (University of Oxford). Mark began his career as a corporate lawyer in the UK and India. He served as a British Army Officer and with the British Foreign & Commonwealth Office. Awarded MBE by HM Queen Elizabeth II for his work in Iraq 20••••05; CEO of the Year 2022 by CEO Monthly; the 2022 Peacemaker Award by Brigham Young University. Member of The Change Leaders and the Law Society of Scotland. Writer to His Majesty’s Signet.