Mark Logan is a strategic communications leader with a focus on social equity. With over 20 years experience in communications and marketing, human-centered design, and Diversity Equity and Inclusion, Mark loves to work at the intersection of communications and community. He is also an accomplished presenter and facilitator.
In 2018, Mark founded the social innovation consultancy, idealect. There he created and led community communications campaigns on issues such as COVID-19 response, rural community health, and digital equity.
In 2022, he co-founded Ally Lab, a unique DEI training experience that fuses evidence-based DEIB training practices with methods from Design Thinking. Ally Lab has trained thousands of participants in the KC metro region to create more active and effective allies.
Previously, Mark served as the leader of the innovation lab and innovation practice at Barkley. While there, he won the first ever Project ISAAC Award, a national industry award for best practices in innovation management.
Mark founded lookandfeel new media in 1996, an early pioneer among digital agencies. The firm garnered national and international acclaim, even winning FWA's coveted Best Website of the Year Award in 2000. Mark served as Managing Director, overseeing new business and strategy as it grew to over thirty full-time employees. Lookandfeel earned a notable client list including Lee Jeans, American Century Investments, Garmin, H&R Block, PBS, and MetLife.
Mark was born in Sydney, Australia and immigrate to the US as a child, growing up in Wichita, KS. He went to Duke University on a merit scholarship and graduated Cum Laude with a degree in Theater. He ran away (back) to Australia and began his career in film and video production after a brief stint managing a group home for autistic adults. He got to direct Russell Crowe in a vitamin video once.