KC IABC Board Member Karen Massman VanAsdale interviews Mark in advance of his address in Kansas City next week.

Meet the keynote speaker of the Business Communicators Summit

D. Mark Schumann guides business leaders as they transform organizational cultures into courageous environments that inspire confidence. When consulting, he helps leaders diagnose realities and design change architectures to deliver practical solutions; when coaching, he challenges leaders to embrace behaviors that can sustain results; when working with students, he inspires curiosity and commitment in person and online. Winner of 17 Gold Quill awards from IABC, an IABC Fellow and a past IEB Chair, Mark coaches participants in the Executive Education programs of the Wharton Business School and is a Professor of Communication at the University of St. Thomas in Houston.