Mark Bodnarczuk

Mark Bodnarczuk is the Executive Director of the Breckenridge Institute®. He is also on staff in the Director’s Office of SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory at Stanford University, and was formerly in the Director’s Office at Fermilab from 1985 through 1992 and the National Renewable Energy Laboratory from 1992 until 1996 when he founded the Breckenridge Institute, a management consulting firm that focuses on organizational transformation and culture change. He has over thirty years of experience working in the areas of high-tech, basic and applied research, pharmaceuticals, commercial construction, government, and non-profit organizations. He also has extensive experience working in the Department of Energy National Laboratories and the National Nuclear Security Administration’s nuclear weapons complex in the areas of organization development and organizational culture.

He has published widely in the areas of organization development and leadership development and is the author of four books including, Making Invisible Bureaucracy Visible: A Guide to Assessing and Changing Organizational Culture; Diving In: Discovering Who You Are in the Second Half of Life; and his latest book, Island of Excellence: 3 Powerful Strategies for Building a Culture of Creativity. Mark has also published widely in the areas of organizational transformation, cultural analysis, and deep personal change.

Mark has a B.A. from Mid-America Nazarene University, an M.A. from Wheaton College, an A.M. from the University of Chicago, and has done Executive and Continuing Professional Education studies in leadership at the T.H. Chan School of Public Health at Harvard University.