About Mark E. Haskins

As a professor at the University of Virginia’s Darden Graduate School of Business for many years, my classroom was all about ideas for consideration and conversation.  As a husband, father, grandfather, and friend, I have learned that conversation is the glue that builds and binds relationships.  In living my Christian faith, conversations sparked by insights and stories never fail to foster a deepening of relationships with others and with my Heavenly Father.  Conversation fosters connection—connection to an idea, to others, and to a faith.  For me, the art of meaningful conversation involves five things: listening, vulnerability, curiosity, thoughtfulness, and a catalyst that sparks a conversation that taps the other four.  As I prepared to lead my classes, as I crafted articles and case studies for readers I did not even know, I was always mindful of wanting to offer rich conversational catalysts. The blog presented at this website is true to this objective (as are even the business books noted here). I do not pretend to have all the answers nor even most of them.  I do, however, have insights and ideas born of reflection, study, learning, prayer, and conversation.  May you, too.

If you’d like some additional Mark Haskins facts, here you go.

• Married for nearly 50 years

• Two adult children and eight granddaughters

• Lived in CO, CA, OH, PA, NC, and now VA

• Loves riding his tractor, a good book, baseball, woodworking, writing, and of course, meaningful conversations

• Traveled outside the US to England, Wales, Australia, Thailand, France, Canada, Belgium, Ukraine, Russia, Hong Kong, Italy, Germany, Switzerland, Brazil, and Belize

And just like Dorothy in the Wizard of Oz, “there is no place like home.”