TAB Twin Cities North/Central

Mark J. Komen, founder and President of Kodyne, Inc., brings a wealth of large corporate and small business experience to his work as a management consultant and business coach. One of his guiding beliefs is that all organizations need effective leadership as the benefits extend to employees, customers, vendors, and anyone with a stake in the business. As such, Mark has worked with managers and executives in numerous industries to help them understand how their leadership drives their organizations.

As a coach, Mark helps business leaders explore how the pieces of their businesses fit together: their work culture, their strategic direction, their plans, their processes and their employee development approaches, to name a few. As a consultant, he works with individuals and teams to improve their personal and organizational effectiveness.

Mark’s unique background allows him to connect with clients at all levels of the organization – from technical professionals to the executive suite to the shop floor. He has over 30 years of engineering design, project leadership, and functional management experience in the electronics and manufacturing industries. He has worked in research and new product development groups, as well as production environments, for Southwestern Bell, the University of Kansas Center for Research, Motorola, Honeywell, Alliant Techsystems and ADC Telecommunications. During the course of his career, he has served in the roles of design engineer, principal investigator, team member, team leader, project manager, department manager and consultant. In addition, he has worked in, led, managed, and consulted with self-directed work teams since 1987 in the electronics, manufacturing and government sectors.

In 2012, Mark completed training to join the pool of evaluators for the Minnesota Quality Award, an affiliate of the Malcolm Baldrige Performance Excellence program sponsored by the US Department of Commerce.  He has also served as a project adviser to the Advanced Professional Degree Consulting Club at the University of Minnesota.

Mark has presented for Michigan Technological University, the University of Minnesota, the College of St. Catherine, the Midwest Electronics Exposition, the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, The Printing Industry of Minnesota, the West Hennepin Chamber of Commerce, the Minnesota Public Employee Labor Relations Association, the Council for Independent Professional Consultants and various Minnesota county agency managers/supervisors.

Mark holds Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering and Master of Engineering degrees from the University of Kansas in Lawrence, KS and a Master of Arts degree in Organizational Leadership from the St. Catherine University in St. Paul, MN.