Mark Briggs Email & Phone Number

Empyrean Group partners with driven individuals and forward-thinking organizations to help them realize dreams and reach goals they previously thought were unattainable. Our executive coaching engagements help busy leaders with demanding roles unlock their potential for change and drive tangible results. Our clients are typically high achievers who've been promoted into roles more challenging than anything they've faced before. In essence, we help them thrive in the deep end of the pool.Through leadership development workshops, summits and programs we help clients set clear, measurable goals and create customized plans to bridge the gap between their current reality and desired future state⁠. We leverage AI and emerging technology to help leaders work together more effectively, facilitating deeper discussions to enable conversations that might not otherwise be possible.

Spokane, Wa, Us

Seattle, Wa, Us

Co-lead graduate level course Media Entrepreneurship with Anika Anand for the Communication Leadership program.

Westlake Village, California, Us

I worked with media and technology companies to leverage powerful research into strategic and tactical guidance for growing, engaging and monetizing audiences. Special emphasis on organizational development to create opportunities and streamline processes and workflows and support internal innovation and organizational effectiveness and healthy workplace cultures.

Columbia, Mo, Us

Author, trainer and consultant for media companies looking to transform their business and build audience in the digital age. Responsible for a digital literacy guide published in 2007 and made available as a PDF download from the Knight Citizen News Network. This simple introduction to online journalism was downloaded more 200,000 times in English, Portuguese and Spanish and is now available in five languages.

Chapel Hill, Nc, Us

Taught "Leadership in Digital Media Economics," an online course in the school's MATC program, focusing on leading innovation, managing change and growing organizations in this rapidly changing digital media environment.

Oversee web, mobile and social media strategies and operations. Also lead business development for digital. Flagship site king5.com recognized with national Edward R. Murrow award as best Local TV Website in 2011 (and best regional site in 2012).

Fork is a mobile app for telling personal food stories. It is transforming the way consumers make food-related decisions and helping food product, food service and other food-related companies connect with at-home food consumers.

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Training, teaching and advising news entrepreneurs. Helped organize multiple bootcamps, workshops and conducted webinars and wrote online courses for News University.

Serra Media is a web technology company that's taken a unique approach to web-based software for news organizations. We build software-as-a-service tools that integrate seamlessly into news publishers' websites and make it easy to geographically organize user generated content, along with news publisher content, onto the same dynamic map interface. Our local shopping platform makes it easy for businesses to socialize their deals and specials to potential customers in their neighborhood.

Tacoma, Washington, Us

Assistant Managing Editor for Interactive News and Content and Strategy Manager leading the company’s push for audience and interactivity online. Editor of thenewstribune.com and advisor to the newspaper on new business opportunities online.

Seattle, Wa, Us

Adjunct professor for the Communication/Journalism Dept., leading a 300- level class on the basics of web page design and print design. Taught Photoshop, Dreamweaver and QuarkXpress.

New Media Editor and Director charged with extending the newspaper’s reach and maximizing interactivity through new technology. Responsible for financial performance; helped turn a negative cash flow into the most profitable division of the newspaper. Web traffic increased 300%.

Master Of Arts - Ma, Journalism And Mass Communication

Ba, Journalism