MARK MOHAMMADPOUR: TEAM FACILITATOR
Your Leaders Are Brilliant On Their Own. Help Them Win Together.
No personality colors. No letter types. No trust falls. Just real conversation and real decisions.
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“Mark quickly built trust and rapport with our team, as though he had been working with us for years. We highly recommend him as a facilitator.”
— College of American Pathologists
Most offsites feel great. Few change anything.
The best leaders have healthy, confident, and connected teams. But most offsites end with a nice dinner and a plan that’s forgotten by Wednesday. Mark’s end with a plan your team wants to run, and the trust to run it.
An offsite is facilitation with room to breathe. Same neutral guide, same real conversation — just more time, away from the day-to-day.
The meetings stay polite.
Everyone agrees in the room and disagrees in the hallway. Over time, that costs you people. A toxic culture predicts turnover 10 times more powerfully than pay does. (MIT Sloan Management Review, 2022)
The decisions come slow.
When trust is thin, people hedge instead of decide. Employees who trust their team leader are 12 times more likely to be fully engaged. (ADP Research Institute, Global Study of Engagement, 2019)
Your team is disconnected.
Your customers feel it before your dashboard does. Teams in the top quartile of engagement outperform bottom-quartile teams by 10% on customer ratings. (Gallup Q12 meta-analysis)
The four offsites teams ask for most.
Any theme below can run as a half-day, full-day, or multi-day offsite. Mark builds the agenda around what your team actually needs.
Three ways to run your offsite.
Every offsite is designed around your team’s real challenges and facilitated by Mark, never handed to a junior associate. Each one starts with a discovery call, not a template.
Half-day reset.
For a team that needs to settle one big question. One question, one plan, done by lunch. Best for 8–15 people.
Full-Day Friction Solve
For cross-functional teams stuck on a real sticking point. Time to name it, work it, and decide together. Best for 10–25 people.
Multi-Day Inflection Point
For executive teams facing new strategy, new structure, new stakes. Best for 6–20 people.
Zero fluff. Full impact.
Here’s how Mark runs the room.
Neutral, Always.
Mark works for the outcome, not the loudest voice in the room. Every voice gets heard, not just the senior ones.
Whole Team. Whole Person.
Every offsite holds three things at once: how people are doing, how the team works together, and what the business needs.
You Leave With It In Writing
Not a feeling. A written plan with decisions, owners, and dates.
What the team walks away with:
You can see it in how the team keeps talking after Mark leaves.
Clarity
A shared read on the real problem, not the polite version.
Ownership and a Written Plan
Who's doing what, by when — in a document your team can hand to anyone who wasn't in the room.
Rhythm
A way of talking that doesn’t fall apart three weeks later.
“Mark brought an authentic, energizing message that truly resonated with our team during a time of change. The impact was clear in how connected, motivated, and aligned our team felt afterward.”
— Katie Davidson, DraftKings Inc.
“Working with Mark Mohammadpour has been a game-changer for the teams I’ve been on and those that I have led. He brings a rare combination of strategic communications expertise and a deep commitment to employee well-being, which shows up in every interaction.
Mark doesn’t deliver off-the-shelf content, he takes the time to understand your team, your challenges, and your goals, and then designs sessions that are highly relevant, engaging, and immediately actionable. His facilitation style creates space for honest conversation, reflection, and connection, which has strengthened trust and alignment across teams.
Mark creates an environment where people feel comfortable showing up authentically while also pushing the team toward meaningful outcomes. We’ve walked away with practical tools and clear next steps we could implement right away.
I would recommend Mark to any organization looking to invest in stronger leaders, healthier team dynamics, and more intentional communication and purpose.”
— Erin Babbo, Tacoma Public Utilities
Book Mark for your event.
Reach out to Mark about your upcoming event.
Email Mark at mark@chasingthesunpdx.com, call him at 360.609.1077, or fill out the form below.
Mark will respond to you within one business day.
Frequently asked questions.
What is an executive team facilitator like Mark Mohammadpour?
Mark Mohammadpour is a neutral guide who helps a leadership team work through something hard together. A consultant tells you what to do. A facilitator builds the conversation that lets your team figure it out — and commit to it.
When should a company hire a professional facilitator like Mark Mohammadpour?
When strategy shifts, when leadership changes, when the same conflict keeps coming back, or when an important offsite is coming and last year’s didn’t land.
What’s the return on facilitating a team well?
Two things, mostly. Decisions get made faster because the real disagreement finally gets said out loud. And good people stay, because they can see their input changing something. At Mutual of Omaha, more than 95% of attendees rated the sessions highly favorable — and the bigger change was that well-being kept coming up in everyday conversation long after the sessions ended.
How long is a session with Mark Mohammadpour, and does it have to be in person?
Half-day or full-day, in person or virtual. Offsites run half-day, full-day, or two days.
Where is Mark Mohammadpour based, and where does he travel?
Mark Mohammadpour is based in Portland, Oregon, and speaks at events across the country and beyond.