Mark C. Crowley

Mark C. Crowley is the author of Lead From The Heart: Transformational Leadership For The 21 st Century, and his mission is to fundamentally change how we lead people in workplaces around the globe. Mark is a regular columnist for Fast Company Magazine and has been published in USA Today, Reuters, Forbes, the Stanford Social Innovation Review, The Huffington Post, Gallup, The Financial Times, CEO Magazine, Great Britain, and The Seattle Times. His two LinkedIn Pulse articles on inspiring a 21 st Century workforce and managing millennials have been read well over a million times. The second edition of Mark’s book debuted in August, 2022 as an “Amazon #1 Release.” His book has been taught in eleven American universities, including the educational Ph.D program at the University of Massachusetts Global and at the University of Iowa’s MBA Program. Mark’s “Lead From The Heart” podcast ranks in the top 1.5% of all podcasts in the world with an audience in 175 countries. Before writing his book, Mark spent over 20 years in the dog-eat-dog world of financial services. He held two national level positions at one of America’s largest financial institutions where he was named “Leader of the Year.” Quite untraditionally, Mark proved that deeply caring about and supporting people, and thereby positively affecting employee’s hearts, had a profound effect on motivating their sustained engagement, loyalty and productivity. New and breakthrough medical research Mark draws upon in his book proves that the heart is actually the driver of optimal human performance. A leadership pioneer, Mark shows us that, rather than weak or soft management, leading from the heart is the most informed and enlightened thing a manager or organization can do. Mark is a graduate of the University of California, San Diego and the University of Washington’s Pacific Coast Banking School. He lives in La Jolla, California.