​​"Mark Rako is a brilliant man. He truly walks the talk."
-Don E. Beck, PhD, Founder, National Values Center; Co-author, The Crucible: Forging South Africa's Future; and Spiral Dynamics: Mastering Values, Leadership and Change

"I have met many of the world most impressive leaders and worked with many of them. Rako is a rare world class talent emerging in time to steward the 21st century and we are in very good hands. He walks lovingly and is masterful at sharing power and inspiring folks into deeper leadership. I have worked with him as my teacher and guide, hired him, learned beside him and developed projects with him. He is a profound teacher, a wise leader and a man who can hold complex people, relationships and organizations through the art, science, moves and poetics of transformation. Rako is an architect for the beautiful aspects emerging, a thoughtful critic of what needs to die off and a masterful integrator of worldviews, change theories and innovation." 
​-Donna Morton,  Co-Founder and former CEO, Change Finance; Ashoka, Ogunte, and Unresasonable Fellow 

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"Mark Rako makes us look good!” 
-Michael Murphy, Co-Founder, Esalen Institute; Author, The Life We Are Given; and The Future of the Body: Explorations Into the Further Evolution Of Human Nature

​"Mark Rako Fabionar's brilliance and capacity to work with others to produce superlative information and organizational direction has been a true well-spring of inspiration. Our continuing professional relationship allows me to tap into a contemporary source of information, contacts, ideas and attitudes that gives fresh and exciting context to my work." 
-Angelo Williams, PhD, Chief of Staff, California State Assembly

 

​"Rako offers a unique integration of power and gentleness. His speaking, facilitation, and event convening carry a gravitas of deep presence and caring. He has the ability to move group energy to meaningful conversation, emergent insights, and new understanding. Over the past five years, I have experienced Rako in a variety of settings, and, every time, I come away moved - emotionally, mentally, and spiritually." -Adam Leonard, Executive Development, Google 

"Having 'watched' Rako these past years and having had the privilege of hearing his personal and familial stories of healing, I sensed that someday he would be called to become a full-time healer. While undergoing initiation into this shamanic healing work, I've witnessed how he approaches this work with reverence and utmost care and respect for all, the Seen and Unseen. I've watched him create spaces to help students in developing self-awareness and learning how to integrate a sense of the sacred into their lives. It's been my privilege to learn from his gentle and powerful facilitation skills in building a sense of communion and community in groups large and small. 
-Leny Mendoza Strobel, PhD, Co-Founder, Center for Babaylan Studies; Author, Babaylan: Filipinos and the Call of the Indigenous 

​“Rako possesses the unique ability to traverse the subtle energetic tapestry of human systems from the individual to the collective.  He is an adept leader, healer, guide, and warrior: unafraid to face both the dark and light in people, organizations, and community. He assists people in facing diverse challenges while evoking the potential of what they wish to create.” 
-Alicia Stammer, Director, Organizational Development, Dignity Health

​"Rako is an extraordinary being: an accomplished artist and poet, a master convener, a spiritual adept and mystic, an academic, and, most of all, a leader. He can build bridges between generations, worldviews, and identities, and has demonstrated the ability to inspire youth, people of color, and administrators to become interested in transformation and discovering their own unique potential."
-Edward West, Founder and former CEO, Hylo; Co-Founder, Impact Hub Oakland

“Rako is an exceptionally wise leader, facilitator, process consultant, and learning system designer. He has consistently led groups to access the collective intelligence, wisdom and empathy needed to move through crises or engage an impactful mission. He is also a deeply experienced healer, quite deft at supporting individuals and groups to heal themselves, integrate past challenges, and envision new futures. We all have something important to learn from Rako, and his profound humility ensures that he will constantly learn from all of us, too.”   
- Barrett C. Brown, PhD, Managing Director, Apheno Advisory ​

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​"Whether leading a workshop on organizational design, working with people one-on-one or performing his deeply revealing poetry, Rako's presence is powerful and soul-provoking. His work reflects and evokes the type of complex thinking that we need at this time, and his ability to embrace people where they are at is compassionate but challenging, leading them to where they need to be."
-Elza Maalouf, CEO, Center for Human Emergence-Middle East; Author, Emerge! The Rise of Functional Democracy and the Future of the Middle East

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