Mark Silver, M.Div.

Mark Silver, M.Div., is the founder of Heart of Business, Inc. and is described on the company's team page as its founder and healer. For more than 25 years, he, his wife Holly and their team have helped thousands of small business owners, particularly spiritual business owners who need their work to support them financially.

His work began in 1999 as Success by Design, helping entrepreneurs create marketing that felt clean, effective and authentic. He soon saw that the work was less about design than about helping clients access and trust their hearts. He found grounding in coaching through a mentor, Anne Sagendorph. Then Sufi-based healing work from the Jaffe Institute, now the University of Spiritual Healing & Sufism, made the path clear, and Heart of Business was born in August 2001.

Since then he has developed an entrepreneurial heart-wisdom curriculum that looks for where specific spiritual teachings are present in everyday business practices such as marketing, sales, systems and strategic planning. He and his team work in three areas: spiritual connection and nourishment, power (individual, collective and systemic), and business itself, with the aim of helping people with big hearts and meaningful gifts support themselves in nourishing ways.

Behind it all is a conviction he returns to often: every act of business can be an act of love, and business can be a sanctuary rooted in values, nourishing to the heart and financially solid. He shares guidance on this in a weekly letter and on the Heart of Business blog.