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Mark's Leadership Keynote Conversations

The Buoyant Leader

Turns pressure into the thing your steadiest leaders are known for.

Under pressure, most leaders push harder. The steadiest ones do the opposite, and their team feels it. Your leaders work through a real high-pressure moment together and practice staying clear enough to make the right call.

Why now: 77% of workers reported work-related stress in the past month, and 57% reported effects tied to burnout. (American Psychological Association)

Your leaders walk out able to:

• Stay steady with a routine they can run on the hardest days
• Read stress as a signal and use it to make a sharper call
• Use calm as an advantage, so their team can feel and follow

Pairs with Leading with Clarity and Calm: Live scenarios and group coaching, so leaders practice the frameworks instead of just hearing them.

Lead With Empathy

Turns empathy into a performance skill leaders can use under pressure.

Empathy is a skill most leaders were never taught, and most were told it was the opposite of accountability. Your leaders practice it live, in the workplace moments where it's hardest: the underperformer, the frustrated client, the colleague who has stopped speaking up. They leave with moves they can use in the next conversation, not a definition.

Why now: Employees with highly empathic senior leaders report being innovative 61% of the time, compared with 13% under less empathic leaders, and 76% report being engaged, versus 32%. (Catalyst)

Your leaders walk out able to:

• Use perspective-taking to connect across rank, role, and distance
• Build the trust that gets people speaking up sooner
• Apply specific moves the same day to improve trust

Pairs with The Empathy in Action workshop: Paired conversations and real workplace scenarios, where leaders practice hearing the thing underneath what was said.

Lead a Healthy Culture of Well-being

Makes well-being how your team works, not a perk you offer.

The best teams didn't add a wellness program. They changed how they run meetings, onboard new hires, and give feedback. Your leaders examine their everyday habits and decide together, in the room, which one to change first.

Why now: 52% of employees say their employer doesn't support their well-being in meaningful ways, and 69% of executives admit they have no way to measure it. (Deloitte)

Your leaders walk out able to:

• Treat well-being as a business driver, not an HR line item
• See how small leadership choices lead to a healthy team
• Run meetings, onboarding, and feedback so they build energy

Pairs with The Team Culture OS workshop: Leaders walk through their own meetings, onboarding, and feedback habits, decide which one to change first, and agree on how they'll talk about energy and workload from then on.

REWORK: The Future-Ready Leader

Rebuilds the leadership playbook for a modern workplace.

The leadership habits of the last decade are working against the people using them. Attendees will rebuild their approach around energy and clarity, then test the new moves together before taking them back to work.

Why now: Global employee engagement fell to 20% in 2025, the second straight annual decline and the lowest level since 2020. Manager engagement has dropped nine points since 2022. (Gallup)

Your leaders walk out able to:

• Lead around capacity, not control
• Treat purpose and belonging as daily practices, not nice-to-haves
• Build the motivation the team creates together instead of waiting for it

Pairs with The REWORK Sprint workshop: Leaders map where their energy actually goes, pair up with someone outside their own team, and leave with a 30-day plan they run together.

Work in Sunlight

Reconnects your people to the work and to each other.

Disconnection is the new burnout, and it costs teams their best people one quiet exit at a time. We name where belonging is slipping and build the habits that rebuild it, right there in the room.

Why now: Employees with a strong sense of belonging show 56% higher job performance and 50% lower turnover risk. (BetterUp)

Your leaders walk out able to:

• Measure performance by energy, clarity, and connection
• Build small daily habits that keep belonging alive between events
• Run a shared, team-built plan for staying connected

Pairs with The Sunlight workshop: Small daily habits, regular peer check-ins, and a connection map the team builds together, so belonging survives the weeks between events.