Mark Mone

Dr. Mone is Professor Emeritus of Organizations and Strategic Management in the Lubar College of Business. His areas of expertise include leadership, change management, executive coaching and development, teams, communication, strategy, organizational structure, and performance management systems.

Mark previously served UW-Milwaukee in several administrative and governance roles, including 17 years (1997-2014) as Associate Dean for the Lubar College and 11 years as chancellor (2014-2025). In those roles, he helped create path‐breaking partnerships, advancing social mobility through education and addressing societal issues through research and strategic re‐invention and engagement. Examples include the Northwestern Mutual Data Science Institute, the Microsoft AI Co-Innovation Lab, Connected Systems Institute, Freshwater Collaborative of Wisconsin, and the Lubar Entrepreneurship Center.

His work contributed to the campus being nationally recognized for the first time by the Carnegie Institute as top tier in research, community engagement, and access. Major philanthropic records were established, and the physical footprint of the campus was transformed with 16 new or renovated buildings, including the Chemistry building, Orthopaedic Hospital of Wisconsin Center, Innovation Campus Accelerator Building, and the renovated Student Union and Northwest Quad Health Sciences.

As noted by the Universities of Wisconsin, “Mark shepherded UWM through an awakening of its national reputation as one of America’s top research universities four times running, a Carnegie-classified community-engaged institution recognized for its access mission, a Princeton Review ‘Best Midwest’ university that is also military-friendly and LGBTQ+-friendly, and that has an APLU Economic and Innovation Prosperity designation, a Department of Education Green Ribbon Award, and is ranked in the top 3.1% in the world by the Center for World University Rankings.”