About Mark E. Haskins

As a professor at the University of Virginia’s renowned Darden 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.  Indeed, conversations foster 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 the business books noted here. I do not pretend to have all the answers nor even most of them.  I do, however, have some insights and ideas born of reflection, study, learning, and many conversations.  May you, too.

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

• Married for nearly 50 years

• 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.”