Lipton, Mark: - Mark Lipton is graduate professor of management at The New School in New York City. For over forty years, he has been a trusted adviser to Fortune 500 corporations, think tanks, nonprofits, international NGOs, and start-ups. His work has inspired his writing for the "Harvard Business Review," "MIT Sloan Management Review," and "Journal of Management Consulting," as well as his books "Guiding Growth: How Vision Keeps Companies on Course" and "Mean Men: The Perversion of America's Self-Made Man," winner of a 2018 Axiom Award. Mark holds a PhD from the School of Management at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst. He lives in New York City and western Massachusetts and serves on several boards, including SPRAT Artistic Ensemble, Isabella Geriatric Center, AchieveMission, and the Austen Riggs Center.