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Mark Leach
Senior Consultant
Mark Leach is a renowned researcher and management consultant with a particular interest in strategy, leadership development and transition, and issues of diversity and inclusion in organizations. As a MAG consultant and coach, he has worked with a range of social justice nonprofits and funders, including the Center for Reproductive Rights, the National Center on Family Homelessness, the John Merck Fund, Abortion Access Project, the Civil Liberties and Public Policy Project, Heifer Project International, US Action, and Urban Libraries Council.
Prior to joining MAG, Mark worked as a consultant and researcher in nonprofit and private-sector settings. His work focused on a diverse range of issues including international development, inter-organizational collaboration, and diversity and inclusion in organizations. He was Senior Consultant at John Snow, Inc., Senior Associate at the Institute for Development Research, and Principal Consultant at Kaleel Jamison Consulting Group. Mark’s academic background includes a Masters in Public and Private Management from the Yale School of Management, and a Doctor of Business Administration from Boston University.
Tying all of his experience together is what he describes as a passion for “finding shared understanding across lots of different worldviews and experiences.”
“I’ve had a lot of academic training but also a lot of practical experience,” he notes, “so I’m able to share with clients both what’s in the literature and also the everyday experience of other organizations. I feel really lucky to work at MAG because I get to do this work with organizations whose missions I love.”
Mark’s recent articles include Organization Development for Social Change in the Handbook of Organizational Development (Amazon) and Changing Organizational Systems from the Outside: OD Practitioners as Agents of Social Change in The NTL Handbook of Organization Development and Change: Principles, Practices and Perspectives (Amazon)
Prior to joining MAG, Mark worked as a consultant and researcher in nonprofit and private-sector settings. His work focused on a diverse range of issues including international development, inter-organizational collaboration, and diversity and inclusion in organizations. He was Senior Consultant at John Snow, Inc., Senior Associate at the Institute for Development Research, and Principal Consultant at Kaleel Jamison Consulting Group. Mark’s academic background includes a Masters in Public and Private Management from the Yale School of Management, and a Doctor of Business Administration from Boston University.
Tying all of his experience together is what he describes as a passion for “finding shared understanding across lots of different worldviews and experiences.”
“I’ve had a lot of academic training but also a lot of practical experience,” he notes, “so I’m able to share with clients both what’s in the literature and also the everyday experience of other organizations. I feel really lucky to work at MAG because I get to do this work with organizations whose missions I love.”
Mark’s recent articles include Organization Development for Social Change in the Handbook of Organizational Development (Amazon) and Changing Organizational Systems from the Outside: OD Practitioners as Agents of Social Change in The NTL Handbook of Organization Development and Change: Principles, Practices and Perspectives (Amazon)