A popular keynote speaker at business and educational conferences around the globe, last year alone she spoke to over 11,000 in eight countries on a wide-range of topics including organizational learning, living with cancer, and empowering individuals, groups and nations.

A long term cancer survivor (she was told she had six months to live almost thirty years ago), Dr. Markova has appeared on Iyanla and other tv programs. She is a frequent guest on Wisconsin Public Radio and New Dimensions, as well as numerous other radio stations. Her books include I Will Not Die an Unlived Life, The Art of the Possible, The Open Mind, No Enemies Within, An Unused Intelligence, How Your Child is Smart, and Learning Unlimited. As one of the editors of the Random Acts of Kindness series, she helped launch a national movement to help counter America’s crisis of violence. A former board member of the Visions for a Better World Foundation, she is very active in making the world a better place. Her initiatives include:

• The implementation of the Foster Grandparenting Program and Peer Counseling in school systems around the U.S.
   
• Random Acts of Kindness Gangs working with inner city youth in Pittsburgh, which became a national program in annual Random Acts of Kindness weeks in the U.S. school system.
   
• With Dee Hock (founder of Visa International), worked with government and corporations to envision the future of New Zealand.
   
• Omnibus, a training of leaders of nonprofits in statewide drug prevention programs in Vermont.
   
• A five day program entitled “War of Song," designed with youth leaders in Dublin, Ireland to create an alliance between Protestant and Catholic children.
   
• Alliance programming for the Hospital System of Quebec – creating a collaborative atmosphere within the French and English healthcare system.
   
• An apprenticeship program through Title One funding, helping at risk high school students to experience valuable skills on a job or trade to learn pride of accomplishment in New Hampshire.
   
• The World-Wide Women’s Web, a virtual collaborative environment to foster the sharing of experiences, insights, and best practices of 50 global women leaders from for-profit organizations.
   
• The Institute for Human Ecology, a nonprofit entity offering leadership development training to emerging community leaders in New England.
   
• A former Senior Affiliate for the Organizational Learning Center at MIT, she is now a research member of the Society for Organizational Learning. She holds a Ph.D. in Education and Psychology from Union Graduate School and lives in the mountains of Utah.