Patrick Marx

Coordinating Council

"Resolve to alway be beginning -- to be a beginner," Rainer Maria Rilke

  • Educator:  Principal facilitator for the Adaptive Leadership Inquiry at the University of Montana where he taught communications/leadership courses at Missoula College from 2011-2021.  He was on the faculty for the Harvard  Executive Program: The Art and Practice of Leadership Development in 2007. For several years he taught upper- level journalism at the University of Minnesota Duluth and St. Thomas University. 

 "Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice anywhere," Martin Lurther King

  • Journalist: Award-winning staff writer and editor for the Minneapolis Star Tribune and St. Paul Pioneer Press, twice nominated for the Pulitzer Prize,  a special correspondent for the New York Times,and  the Washington Post.

  • He is frequently called upon to host, facilitate, and moderate programs in a variety of formats including on-stage, broadcast radio/television and digital media.. 

"The work of leadership is to mobilize people-to address their toughest challenges," Heifetz and Linsky

Executive Leadership: 

  • Special assistant to the president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) where he led a "crisis team" that prompted Lawrence Bacow, then MIT chancellor to say: "Patrick has shown himself to be savvy and clear-headed during a difficult time."  In addition, he led a team hosting President Clinton as the 1998 MIT commencement speaker and also a team that produced the National Innovation Summit featuring Vice President Albert Gore. 

  • Executive team of the Blandin Foundation, a Minnesota-based private foundation focused on rural issues where he created and led the Minnesota Community Editors and Publishers Leadership program that continues to thrive. 

  •  Vice President of Communications for a $6.5 billion information systems company based in France where he was responsible for a multinational team and led several successful marketing campaigns.

Education:

  • Masters Degree in 1998 at Harvard Kennedy School (HKS) and is affiliated with the Adaptive Leadership Network (ALN), the Leading Change Network (LCN). In addition, he has  completed several certification courses affiliated with Harvard Graduate School of Education including the Right Question Institute, Minds at Work, and the  HKS Art and Practice of Leadership Executive Education Program. 

  • Bachelor's degree at the University of Minnesota and in 1984 was  awarded a McKnight Foundation fellowship for the first University of Minnesota Program on Reflective Leadership at the Hubert Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs.

Soyez patient envers tout ce qui est non résolu dans votre cœur et essayez d'aimer les questions elles-mêmes… Décidez d'être toujours en train de commencer—d'être un débutant."