Clark received his Bachelor in 1986 from Brigham Young University, his Master of Arts in Organizational Behavior in 1989 from Marriott School of Management, and his Doctor of Philosophy in at Business Administration from Pennsylvania State University in 1996.
He is known for his work on strategic sensemaking in organizations. Clark started his academic career as Adjunct Professor at Westminster College in 1989. The same year he moved to Pennsylvania State University, where he started as Instructor at the Department of Management and Organization.
In 1991 Clark became Distance Education Instructor, in 2000 Assistant Professor and since 2007 at the Enterprise Informatics and Integration Center.
At the College of Information Sciences and Technology he was also Director of Business Solutions from 2000 to 2001, Company-Director of its Solutions Institute from 2001 to 2003 and Executive Director at the now defunct Institute for Global Prescience from 2008 to 2009. As consultant he worked among others for Brooklyn Union, Chubb Insurance, Ford Motor Company, International Business Machines Corporation, Providence Gas and United States. Marine Corps.
Clark’s research interests are in the fields of "anticipatory socio-technical clue detection engines, enterprise process architecture visualization and alignment, and sensemaking via functional hierarchies." Brass, Cameron, Thomas, James B., B.
