Education
Ph.D. University of Witwatersrand

Biography
Mark Addleson is an Associate Professor of Management Economics in the George Mason School of Public Policy, where he teaches in the Organization Development and Knowledge Management Master’s program. The program focuses on developing group- and team-based approaches to organizing in collaborative work environments where people share knowledge across traditional organizational boundaries.

Before joining George Mason University in 1994, Dr. Addleson taught for more than 20 years in his native South Africa at the University of the Witwatersrand’s Graduate School of Business Administration, where he was head of the General Management program(marketing, strategy, economics).

Dr. Addleson publishes regularly in academic journals and has authored books, newspaper articles, and papers presented at local and overseas conferences. Books topics include urban and regional policy and regional manufacturing in South Africa and on the foundations of social theory and the nature of management decisions. He has been awarded numerous research grants and the Wits Business School's award for teaching excellence.

From 1989 to 1994, Dr. Addleson was a director of Econometrix, a firm of consultants with clients across all sectors of the economy. He has consulted with many large and small companies and to public and non-profit organizations both in the United States and South Africa. Most recently, he consulted on the University of Maryland's TAMAR Project (Trauma, Addictions, Mental health And Recovery), using organizational learning ideas and practices in an integrated trauma treatment and education program for women with co-occurring disorders who are inmates in detention centers. Currently he is working in the area of organizational coaching, to develop new approaches to organizational change.

Areas of Expertise
• Organizational learning
• Knowledge Management
• Organizational Transformation
• Cross-boundary Leadership
• Management
• Marketing
• Economics