Mark Atkinson is Chief Executive Officer of Mursion, Inc., the nation's leading virtual reality, simulation platform, where professionals practice and perfect the essential interpersonal skills required to be effective in high stakes careers. Mursion has deployed its simulation platform to hundreds of Fortune 1,000 corporations, non-profits, and schools of nursing, business, and education. Mursion's highly emotive avatars are used to train senior executives, customer service personnel, sales teams and other professionals in the human skills associated with "empathy," including listening, turn-taking, de-escalation of conflict, effective feedback and problem-solving.