About
Mark Bodnarczuk is the founder and executive director of the Breckenridge Institute®, a management consulting firm that focuses on organizational and personal transformation in high-tech research organizations. He is also an institutional program manager in the director’s office of SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory at Stanford University. At Stanford, Mark provides organizational development and leadership development services to SLAC’s senior and middle managers on both the scientific and mission-support sides of the laboratory. He has a BA (Religion) from Mid-America Nazarene University, an MA (Theology) from Wheaton College, and an AM (Philosophy of Science) from the University of Chicago. Mark is the author of more than forty articles and five books, including Diving In: Discovering Who You Are in the Second Half of Life, and Finding New Life After the Death of My Son: Grace and Forgiveness in the Age of Counterfeit Pills and Fentanyl Poisoning.
Featured Work
Finding New Life After the Death of My Son: Grace and Forgiveness in the Age of Counterfeit Pills and Fentanyl Poisoning
This is every parent’s worst nightmare. You go to wake up your 18-year-old son on Sunday morning for church and you find him dead in his bed. Only later do you learn that he bought a single Xanax pill on Snapchat for fifteen dollars to calm his anxiety about the COVID pandemic. He took the pill then ordered food from Door Dash, but he never lived to eat it. It was a counterfeit pill that contained over three times the lethal dose of fentanyl – that one pill killed him. Mark Bodnarczuk’s heart wrenching memoir begins just hours into his process of mourning the tragic death of his teenage son. With indelible sincerity and penetrating detail, Bodnarczuk shares the intimate details of his grief, inviting readers into his moments of anguish, confusion, forgiveness, hope, and transformation. If you allow Mark to be the docent, he’ll lead you on a journey down into the depths of grief and pain that plagued his soul, and then back up through his process of finding new life and a deeper sense of meaning after the death of his son.
Other Works
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Island of Excellence: 3 Powerful Strategies for Building a Culture of Creativity
2nd Ed, 2019
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Diving in: Discovering Who You Are in the Second Half of Life
2nd Ed, 2009
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Making Invisible Bureaucracy Visible: A Guide to Assessing and Changing Organizational Culture
2009
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The Breckenridge Enneagram: A Guide to Personal and Professional Growth
2009