Mark Allen is an educator, speaker, consultant, and author who, in addition to being on the Vatel faculty, currently serves as a faculty member in the department of organizations and management at Pepperdine University’s Graziadio School of Business and Management where he previously served for ten years as Director of Executive Education. An award-winning teacher, Mark teaches courses in Management, Leadership and Adult & Lifespan Learning and has previously taught business and management courses at a number of institutions. He is also a Senior Consultant with the Kiely Group and a senior faculty member for the Human Capital Institute.

Mark is the editor and co-author of The Next Generation of Corporate Universities, published by Pfeiffer in February of 2007 and The Corporate University Handbook published by Amacom Books in 2002. As an internationally-recognized authority, he is a popular speaker throughout the world and has published and presented research on corporate universities and non-traditional higher education. Other research interests include the assessment of training and development programs and the evaluation of teaching and learning in postsecondary and adult education. He serves as a consultant to both new and mature corporate universities. Mark serves on the Board of Regents of the University of Farmers at Farmers Insurance Company and on the Board of Advisors of the Paris-based Global Council of Corporate Universities. .

Education:
Ph.D., University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
MBA, Pepperdine University, Malibu, CA
B.A., Columbia University, New York, NY