Mark Price is a favored speaker by corporations and organizations around the country. His special approach and unique ability to engage his audience has proven successful over the past 31 years. He has two goals when hired as a speaker; 1.) surpass the expectations of his client, and, 2.) leave his audience with a heightened desire to assume personal responsibility.

Key Benefits
31 years of professional speaking experience
Background in Business, Radio, Stand-Up Comedy and Politics
Number one in his field

Many people go through life and never experience their true calling. Mark Price loves what he does and consequently his presentations are infectious.

Radio Commentator

He is perhaps best known for his award winning “If Not You, Then Who? Assuming Personal Responsibility” radio commentaries which have been broadcast on numerous stations in the region. Prior to his success in the business world, Mark was an actor and stand-up comedian, performing in theaters and clubs across this country. More recently, Mark has been a featured guest on many radio shows offering his “If Not You, Then Who?” radio commentary which discusses the importance of assuming personal responsibility. Mark's Commentaries are available in his new book (soon to be released) "If Not You - Then Who?, Assuming Personal Responsibility" and on Compact Disc.

Author
In addition to the writing of his Radio Commentaries Mark is also published in a weekly newspaper column. He has also written two books, "If Not You - Then Who?, Assuming Personal Responsibility" and "How Would You Feel?" "How Would You Feel?" is the title of one of Mark's many poems. This one has been unofficially subtitled - A Celebration of Life. Mark's Commentaries are also available on Compact Disc.

Businessman
At twenty-three years old, Mark created a company and today his firm, Mark Price & Associates, is a successful international marketing, consulting and public relations firm. Working primarily with the automobile industry, Mark Price has developed strategies for many of the nation’s largest automakers, including the Ford Motor Company, Chevrolet, Toyota and Chrysler Corporation. His “Ford’s Focus on Women” is still regarded in the industry as an innovative strategy on corporate consumer relations. As a business leader himself, Mark guided his own business through the recession of the early ‘90s and crafted it into a financially sound company.

Community Leader
Mark has a distinguished record of community service. In the early 1980’s, Mark united business and law enforcement to locate missing children by including pictures of missing children on the back of direct mail pieces to consumers. As part of his strategy, Mark convinced local businessmen in San Diego to include the photographs of missing children on the back of their direct mail advertising. This program was a success, as one missing girl noticed one of the fliers and called her family to report that she was all right.

Mark is working to reduce the enormous burden the welfare system has on California taxpayers by getting San Diego companies to train and hire welfare recipients. Mark is the founder of “Job Net” a group of San Diego County businesses which have agreed to hire welfare recipients and help them move away from welfare dependency. As a result, Mark has come up with a plan to decrease the welfare rolls in the county and help welfare recipients to take personal responsibility for their lives without additional cost to taxpayers.

Mark has also organized numerous town hall forums, which have given local residents an opportunity to meet with elected officials about policy issues that may impact their lives. One of Mark’s forums, attended by hundreds of San Diegans, discussed illegal immigration long before the issue was debated statewide. Other topics have included education, welfare reform, transportation and internet taxation.

A leader in his church and community, Mark has worked with at-risk children, creating and directing a county-wide program for high school children to help them deal with the challenges they face today, including alcohol, drugs, peer pressure, and self-respect issues. Mark has been a leader with the YMCA, the Lay Pastor Society, as well as a past President of his neighborhood homeowners association. He is also a member of the San Diego Lincoln Club and the Chambers of Commerce of Alpine, Poway, Santee, Lakeside, East County and Rancho Bernardo.

Politics
Mark was recently named to serve on a Tax Advisory Committee for the State Board of Equalization by Vice Chairman and elected Board member the Honorable Claude Parrish. Co Chair with Governor Schwarzenegger on his Education Reform Coalition.  He is also an elected school board member.

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