Dr. Mark David Milliron is an award-winning leader, author, speaker, and consultant best known for exploring leadership development, future trends, learning strategies, and the human side of technology change. Mark works with universities, community colleges, K-12 schools, corporations, associations, and government agencies across the country and around the world. He serves as Board Chair for the Institute for the Study of Knowledge Management in Education and as a Trustee for Western Governors University. He is also the founder and CEO of the private consulting and service group, Catalyze Learning International (CLI). In addition, he serves on numerous corporate, nonprofit, and education boards and advisory groups; guest lectures for educational institutions nationally and internationally; and authors and moderates the Catalytic Conversations Blog.

Mark brings to this work broad experience, having previously served as an Endowed Fellow, Senior Lecturer, and Director of the National Institute of Staff and Organizational Development in the College of Education at The University of Texas at Austin; Vice President for Education and Medical Practice with SAS, the world's largest private software company; President and CEO of the international education association the League for Innovation; and as Vice President for Academic and Student Services at Mayland Community College (NC).

While teaching at Arizona State, Mark received the International Communication Association’s Teaching Excellence Award. More recently, the University of Texas at Austin’s College of Education honored Mark as a Distinguished Graduate for his service to the education field. In 2005, PBS named Mark the recipient of its annual O'Banion Prize for transformational work in support of teaching and learning. And in 2007, the American Association of Community Colleges (AACC) presented Mark with its National Leadership Award for his outstanding accomplishments, contributions, and leadership.

Mark began his own education at Mesa Community College in Arizona, and subsequently transferred to Arizona State University where he graduated summa cum laude with his B.S. in Organizational Communication. He earned his Masters in Organizational Communication also from ASU, where he was honored as a Graduate Regents Scholar. Mark received his Ph.D. in Educational Administration from the University of Texas at Austin, where he was a Kellogg Senior Research Fellow.

Regardless of all of these activities and accomplishments, he will quickly tell you that the most important job and the greatest blessing in his life is serving as Julia’s husband, and as father to Alexandra, Richard and Marcus. 

Prior Experience

2006-2007
Suanne Davis Roueche Endowed Fellow, Senior Lecturer, & Director, National Institute for Staff and Organizational Development (NISOD)
College of Education, The University of Texas at Austin

2004 - 2006
Vice President, Education and Medical Practice
SAS Institute Inc, Cary, NC

Distinguished Visiting Faculty Member, Community College Leadership Program 
The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX