Mark R. Grandstaff, Ph.D. is an award winning scholar, teacher and facilitator with more than 30+ years experience in leadership development, organizational assessment and strategic thinking. An expert in leadership training and curriculum development, he is the President and CEO of Renaissance Thinkers, a leadership and education development firm based in Park City, Utah.
A man of many ideas and solutions, Dr. Grandstaff has been hired by organizations such as the Army War College, the Joint Special Operation Command and the Brigham Young University Football Coaching staff to educate their senior officers and coaches in strategic leadership and thinking, develop leadership curriculum, and analyze and prescribe solutions for organizational problems. His latest book on strategic leadership education has received critical acclaim from Drs. Stephen Covey (Seven Habits of Highly Effective People) and Michael Ray, author of Creativity in Business. Additionally, he has advised Presidents George Bush and Bill Clinton, served on the President’s Council for National Service, and has taught at UC Berkeley, Oxford, UCLA, and the Army’s and Air Force’s War Colleges. Trained in Depth Psychology and organizational behavior, Dr. Grandstaff engages professionals in an analysis of their personality and temperament types and archetypal selves, thus helping them gain profound insight into their way of seeing and doing things, and providing them with the tools to help understand colleagues and clients whose ways of interpreting and communicating with others are different. In a work world that is experiencing greater personal, cultural and ideological diversity, the model and skills Dr. Grandstaff helps employees and leaders cultivate are essential to an effective work force, a strong corporate brand and a significant return on investment. He is a master at helping leaders and companies reflect on the essence of who they are and what they bring to the table.
Dr. Grandstaff holds a Doctorate of Philosophy in History from the University of Wisconsin at Madison with fields in American Institutional Culture, Strategic Policy-making and Organizational Development. He also holds a Master of Arts Degree in the Sociology of Religion and Community Formation, and a Bachelor of Science in Business Management and Aviation Technology.
He is currently a Senior Fellow of the James MacGregor Burns Academy of Leadership and a Fellow of the Inter-University Seminar for the Study of the Armed Forces. He is a member of the American Society for Training and Development; The Organization Behavior Teaching Society and is an editorial reviewer for the Journal of Leadership Education. He is a member of the Honor Societies Phi Kappa Phi and Beta Gamma Sigma (Business) as well as the Organization for American Historians, the American Historical Association, the Society for Military History, and the America Philosophical Practitioners Association. He has been the recipient of numerous awards for his scholarship and has been cited in Who’s Who of American Scholars and as one of the Outstanding Young Men in America.
