Areas of expertise:
- Executive coaching
- Performance coaching
Mark’s research work examines the ability of top management teams to accurately assess organizational strengths, weaknesses, and needs. He is focused on exploring methods of providing top management teams with feedback that enhance organizational learning and adaptability without activating organizational defenses.
His research also explores potential barriers to adult learning and ways of overcoming these barriers. He is interested in how self-perceptions affect performance and has examined the impact of positive illusions (inaccurate positive self-perceptions) on learning and task performance. He is also interested in the ability of groups and organizations to capture potential learning from failures. He has identified antecedent conditions associated with groups that develop a learning-oriented approach to failures.
Mark earned his PhD from Harvard University in 1998 and currently serves as an Associate Professor of Leadership and Organizational Studies at Vanderbilt University.