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Mark Light is a member of the Kellogg Action Lab College of Consultants. The College is a pool of consultants from across the country that provides "a broad range of services to improve the performance, effectiveness and financial sustainability of U.S. based WK Kellogg Foundation grantees."

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 Leadership for Good™ leadership development; On Tour presentations and workshops; Publishing research, reports, and books; and Results Now® strategic, operating, and governance planning.

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, an unbroken string of year-end cash surpluses delivered, and the opening of three new venues including the $130 million Schuster Center in 2003. 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, in 2001 and BoardSource published his Executive Committee in 2004. 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 currently teaches nonprofit management and organization, and earned income. Other courses in his portfolio include leadership and behavior in organizations, conflict management, competitive strategies, and ethics and legal issues in global business.

As a volunteer, Mark is a mediator for the Dayton Mediation Center and he is on the advisory board of American Humanics - Wright State University chapter. His past board service includes Mound Street Academies for out-of-school youth, 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 the Antioch University Leadership and Change Program.