Mark S WaltonMark S. Walton is a Peabody award-winning journalist, Fortune 100 management consultant, and Chairman of the Center for Leadership Communication, a global executive education and communication enterprise with a focus on leadership and exceptional achevement in life, work and business. He has been a Professor of Leadership in the U.S. Navy's Advanced Management Program, as well as at the Senior Executive Institute and Kenan-Flagler Graduate Business School at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. In his role as Chairman of the Center for Leadership Communication (www.leadercommunication.com) he has taught, coached, and advised thousands of leaders, managers and career professionals in corporate universities and executive programs at many of the world's leading organizations including: Bank of America, Dow Chemical, General Electric Corporation, Duke Energy, Toyota Motor Corporation, Glaxo SmithKline, NASA, and the United States Navy and Marine Corps. Earlier in his career, Mark was CNN's first Chief White House Correspondent and later CNN Senior Correspondent and Anchor, traveling the globe from network headquarters in Atlanta. He is a recipient of broadcast journalism's premier honor, the George Foster Peabody Award, for his role in CNN's live coverage, from Moscow, of the failed 1991 Soviet coup, and the subsequent fall of Communism. His research, writing and reporting on business leadership and career achievement, as well as on major social trends and issues including creativity, psychotherapy, philanthropy, entrepreneurship, environmentalism and constitutional law, have been honored with the National Headliner Award, Ohio State Journalism Award, Cable Ace Award, Gold Medal of the New York TV and Film Festival and the Silver Gavel of the American Bar Association. Read More Read Less