Mark Matousek, M.A. is a bestselling author, teacher, speaker, and consultant whose work focuses on insight, innovation, resilience, and leadership through narrative. He is the author of eight books including Ethical Wisdom: The Search for a Moral Life and Writing To Awaken. His book When You're Falling, Dive: Lessons in the Art of Living (an international bestseller) forms the basis for his work on the subject of resilience. Matousek explores how we use the inevitable adversity that each of us faces in life to discover new strength, transform our story, and experience life to its fullest. In addition to his book, over the last two decades Matousek has interviewed hundreds of people who have bounced back from difficulty and written about their experiences in many of our top national publications.

A former senior editor of Interview Magazine (under the late Andy Warhol), Matousek has been a contributing editor to O: The Oprah Magazine, is a featured blogger for PsychologyToday.com and The Huffington Post, and has contributed to numerous anthologies and publications, including the New Yorker, Details, The Chicago Tribune, and many others. A graduate of the University of California, Berkeley, he is a founding member of V-Men (with Eve Ensler), an organization devoted to ending violence against women and girls, and has offered workshops, retreats, and trainings around the globe for the past 30 years. Matousek’s transformative work with individuals and companies has been widely praised for its efficacy, originality, and wisdom.

He has been featured on numerous television and radio programs here and abroad, and teaches in the U.S., Europe, and Australia.

Matousek lives in East Hampton, New York.

“Mark Matousek has a commanding and captivating presence and is an excellent speaker and facilitator. What made Mark’s workshop and the Senior Executive Panel a great success is his empathetic approach and ability to ask just the right questions at the right time. He has an uncanny knack for intuiting what is needed in the moment. As a result, senior executives opened up in a way that is rare, especially in a large conference setting. Mark inspires people to dig deep, to explore and to discover their personal truth and in doing so, to achieve their greatest potential.”
Patty Leuchten
Founder
The Avoca Group

"I first met Mark Matousek at a five-day retreat in 2017. That retreat was the best investment I’ve ever made in my personal and professional growth! At that time, my colleagues and clients saw me as a confident, forthright, intelligent, and skilled negotiator. Even I did not realize how my success was being limited by my internal fear, old wounds, dissatisfaction and unhappiness. With his remarkable insight, wisdom and compassion, Mark gently unmasked the introvert inside me, helping me discover, ‘own’ and resolve the fearful, shy parts that were preventing me from reaching my full potential. After two years working with Mark, I am more confident, more creative and more successful than ever before. My physical health has been transformed. My professional relationships are vastly richer. Most professional development workshops teach you skills. Mark Matousek helps people bring their best authentic selves to work. When that happens, everyone wins."
Pat Sheaves
Patricia Sheaves and Associates, Inc.

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