Scot Marken, Founder & CEO

Scot Marken has been committed to supporting individuals with disabilities in their independence for more than 20 years on a professional and personal basis.

He is the Founder & CEO of Ed|Redefined, a national educational consulting firm that guides individuals with mental health issues, autism, ADHD, and learning differences with their post-high school, typically college, journeys. Over the past three years, the students Scot has supported have been accepted to nearly 150 colleges and universities with a 94% application success rate.

Scot is a growing, national thought leader in the area of higher education and disabilities. He has been featured in U.S. News & World Report, The Wall Street Journal and on NPR’s Marketplace Morning Report. Scot is also a frequent presenter at regional, national, and international conferences on issues related to college and mental health and autism.

Prior to launching Ed|Redefined, Scot spent his career building and transforming innovative nonprofits with a focus on mental health and developmental disabilities including autism. He was CEO of one of the largest developmental disability providers in the Washington, DC region supporting more than 250 individuals annually with residential and daily living support, and high school transition services. Scot also led a mental health nonprofit that is the largest provider of K-12 public school-based mental health services in Maryland and runs a 24/7 suicide and supportive listening hotline. He was previously a public and private grantmaker helping to allocate more than $80 million in Florida for behavioral health needs.

In addition to his extensive professional experience with disabilities, Scot has lived experience as an individual with anxiety and the proud dad of two young adults with autism, anxiety, ADHD, depression, and/or learning differences.

Scot has a B.A. from Duke University and volunteered for numerous years as an interviewer for Duke’s Alumni Admissions Program..