Mark is an advisor, consultant, and coach who works with individuals, teams, and organizations to help them perform more effectively, efficiently, and profitably. As the President of Nevins Consulting, he helps solve problems and realize opportunities in three general areas:

• Senior-Level Executive Development: Executive assessment, coaching, and leadership development; advice and counsel on all aspects of leadership, management, and organizational effectiveness.
• Executive Team and Board Effectiveness: Initiatives to improve team alignment, focus, productivity, and execution effectiveness, including: clarification of organizational strategy and objectives; improvement of team dynamics; design and facilitation of strategic off-sites.
• Organizational Development and Program Creation: Consulting on organizational strategy and design; talent development and succession planning; communication and cultural change. Creation and delivery of high-impact leadership and management development programs, and selected executive training programs.

For more than fifteen years, Mark has been advising and consulting to senior executives of dozens of large and small organizations around the world, in many industries, in the private and public sectors. His client list ranges from Fortune 100 companies to smaller privately held high-growth firms, and includes such organizations as American Express, AMS, Athena Health, Boeing, Boehringer-Ingelheim, Citigroup, Comcast, DoubleClick, Exxon-Mobil, Ford Motor Company, Guardian Life Insurance, L’Oréal, Medco, Nokia, Scripps, Thyssen-Krupp, Time Warner, Time Warner Cable, UBS, UnitedHealth, several top-tier management consulting and private equity firms, several universities, and several branches of the US government and military.

Mark is a moderator for The Aspen Institute’s flagship Executive Seminar on Values-Based Leadership and the special seminar Leading Change, and he also serves on the Advisory Council for the Institute of Executive Development (IED). He has studied leadership, management, and organizational development extensively. He regularly guest lectures on major business school campuses, and he writes in his areas of expertise. Salient publications include The Advice Business, a book on management consulting of which he is co-editor and co-author, and “21st-Century Leadership: Redefining Management Education,” in the journal Strategy and Business.

In his corporate career, Mark spent ten years in global leadership roles with the strategy and management consulting firm Booz Allen Hamilton and the executive search firm Korn/Ferry International. In each of these roles he led the organizational and executive development functions around the world as well as overseeing the full range of human resource functions. He also consulted with a number of Booz Allen’s largest clients on executive development and organizational change challenges.

Prior to his career in the private sector, Mark taught at Harvard University for nearly a decade. He was graduated with honors from the College of the Holy Cross, and he took his Ph.D. in English Literature from Harvard University, during which time he received awards for his teaching as well as scholarships for research and study in the United States and abroad. Mark sits on the boards of Spring Hill Capital Partners and Stay-Focused, a not-for-profit organization that develops leadership and self-reliance capabilities of pre-teens with physical disabilities via SCUBA certification. He has traveled, worked, and taught in more than 50 countries around the globe.

Nevins Consulting, Inc. works with executives, teams, and organizations to create tailored solutions in the areas of leadership and management development, organizational effectiveness, and talent assessment and planning. We collaborate with our clients to help them achieve specific and meaningful organizational and business results. Our services and solutions range from executive coaching and team alignment to organizational development and the creation of leadership and executive training programs. Our passion is to help our clients develop extraordinary leaders, highly functioning teams, execution-driven organizations, and the talent-management processes that will ensure long-term and sustainable success.