Keynotes your audience are still raving about on monday
Mark leads fully-interactive Keynote Conversations that leave your attendees with valuable takeaways and memorable experiences that extend beyond your event.
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The buoyant leader: healthy under pressure
When pressure rises, most leaders default to pushing harder. The ones their teams trust most do something different; they stay calm, think clearly, and lead from a place of steadiness that others want to follow.
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The Buoyant Leader reframes resilience as a practice. Blending neuroscience, personal transformation, and humor, Mark shows why calm is the new credibility and why the most effective leaders have learned to treat stress as information rather than a threat.
This Keynote Conversation is built for leaders who are carrying more than they’re showing, and who need practical tools, not platitudes, to protect their capacity while leading effectively. Your leaders leave grounded, with moves they can make Monday morning.
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According to the American Psychological Association’s Work and Well-Being Survey, 77% of workers experience work-related stress, and 57% of leaders say it significantly impacts their ability to lead effectively.
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Build resilience as an intentional daily practice — not a trait you either have or you don’t.
Reframe stress as a signal and learn to use it to make better decisions under pressure.
Welcome calm as a leadership advantage, and understand the neuroscience behind why it works.
See resilience as a team strategy: how a grounded leader creates psychological safety for the whole group.
Leave with specific tools to protect energy and sustain effective leadership for the long haul.
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This conversation provides leaders with practical tools to stay grounded and make informed decisions. Using live scenarios and group coaching, participants will practice applying coaching frameworks designed to build confidence and trust with their teams.
lead a healthy culture of well-being
Most companies treat well-being as a benefit. The ones winning the talent war treat it as a leadership operating system.
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In Lead a Healthy Culture of Well-Being, leaders learn why the organizations with the highest engagement scores haven’t redesigned their wellness programs — they’ve redesigned how they work.
Using The CHASE Model™, Mark reveals how everyday leadership decisions (how you run a meeting, how you onboard a new hire, how you give feedback) either deposit into or withdraw from your team’s collective well-being.
The result is a culture that sustains itself, not one that requires constant intervention.
Your leaders leave with a practical framework they can start running in minutes and a shared language for measuring what actually matters.
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According to Deloitte’s Well-Being at Work Report, 52% of employees say their employer does not support their well-being in meaningful ways — and 69% of executives admit they have no strategy for measuring it.
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Reimagine well-being as a core business driver — not an HR initiative or a line item in the benefits budget.
See how individual leadership choices compound into cultural health at scale.
Treat energy, psychological safety, and connection as strategic metrics.
Adapt The CHASE Model™ to the moments where culture is actually built: hiring, onboarding, recognition, and feedback.
Leave with a simple, repeatable framework to track and sustain progress starting the same week.
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This hands-on session is a winning investment in your team’s success. Leaders will assess current workflows, meetings, and communication patterns to identify opportunities to optimize energy use and improve communication. Together, they’ll build Well-Being Scorecards and co-create a shared language for energy, focus, and belonging.
lead with empathy
Empathy isn’t soft. It’s the single leadership behavior most directly linked to team engagement, retention, and innovation; and most leaders were never formally taught it.
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In Leading with Empathy, your leaders experience cognitive empathy in action; not as a concept to think about, but as a skill to practice.
Through live scenarios, research, and interactive moments, Mark shows how understanding what someone else is experiencing accelerates trust, reduces conflict, and drives performance at every level of an organization.
The session moves fast, stays practical, and leaves your leaders with a new fluency in the language that builds the strongest teams. In an AI-powered world, human understanding is the new differentiator.
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According to Catalyst research, employees with empathetic leaders are three times more engaged, five times more likely to stay, and 61% more innovative — making empathy the highest-leverage leadership skill in the modern workplace.
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Understand the science of cognitive empathy and why it’s now a performance skill, not a personality trait.
Use perspective-taking techniques to strengthen relationships across hierarchy, function, and distance.
Reimagine trust and empathy as performance accelerators — and know how to measure the difference.
Apply empathy skills in high-stakes moments: conflict, feedback, change, and difficult conversations.
Leave with practical tools your team can use the same day to build connection and reduce friction.
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A dynamic conversation where participants learn, test, and practice empathy. Through paired conversations and workplace scenarios, attendees apply perspective-switching techniques, learn actionable steps toward clarity, and practice different recognition approaches.
Work in Sunlight
Disconnection is the new burnout. And it’s costing teams their best people: not all at once, but one quiet resignation at a time.
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Work in Sunlight is a high-energy, fully interactive Keynote Conversation that helps employees at every level reconnect to purpose, to each other, and to the work that matters most.
Mark shows how belonging isn’t a feeling you either have or you don’t — it’s something leaders create deliberately, through the daily choices they make about how they show up, how they recognize others, and how they build a culture where people genuinely want to contribute.
Your team leaves with a Sunlight Map™: a shared, actionable guide to sustaining energy and belonging.
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According to MIT Sloan’s Workplace Culture 100 Report, employees who feel a strong sense of belonging are 56% more productive and 50% less likely to leave, making belonging one of the most powerful levers a leader has.
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Rethink what high performance actually looks like — measuring energy, clarity, and connection alongside business results.
Apply The CHASE Model™ to everyday leadership moments: hiring, onboarding, feedback, and recognition.
See culture as the operating system that drives results, not a side project or an annual survey.
Reimagine leadership as a renewable resource and build habits that sustain influence over the long haul.
Leave with a shared framework and, optionally, a 30-day sprint plan through The REWORK Sprint™ workshop.
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The Sunlight Series™ translates the keynote’s energy into habits your team can actually live. In this highly interactive follow-up session, participants design personalized Daily Sunlight Habits, craft Mission Moments, form Peer Pods, and run Stop/Start/Continue Rituals together.
They leave with a Sunlight Map™, a shared, actionable guide to sustaining energy and a sense of belonging long after the keynote ends.
REWORK: The Future-Ready Leader
Only 23% of employees worldwide are actively engaged, and burnout has risen to 46%. The leadership playbook of the past decade isn’t just outdated. It’s making things worse.
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In REWORK: The Future-Ready Leader, leaders discover what the most effective organizations have figured out: energy, clarity, and connection are the real drivers of performance — not hours logged or pressure applied.
Using The CHASE Model™, Mark shows how to rebuild leadership around capacity instead of control, and why protecting your team’s energy is a business decision.
Through research, real stories, and interactive moments, your leaders leave with a new playbook for a hybrid, high-speed, AI-augmented world.
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According to Gallup’s State of the Global Workplace, only 23% of employees are actively engaged and burnout has risen to 46% globally — the highest recorded levels in the history of the report.
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Rediscover purpose as a daily practice — something you build, not something you wait to feel.
Recognize belonging as the foundation of performance, not a byproduct of it.
Reimagine motivation as something a team creates together, not something individuals are born with or eventually lose.
Build personal Daily Sunlight Habits that keep energy and connection alive week after week.
Leave with a shared Sunlight Map™ — a concrete, team-built action plan for sustained belonging.
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The REWORK Sprint™ takes the keynote off the stage and into your team’s actual work. In this hands-on follow-up session, participants map their energy in real time, build a personal WellBeing Ledger™, design a Mentor Mesh™, practice Clarity Huddles, and create a One-Page Culture Brief together.
Attendees leave with a 30-day sprint plan and a shared accountability toolkit, so the momentum from the keynote doesn’t stop when the room empties.
upgrade to the Three-point impact
After Mark’s keynote conversations, people often ask him to host tailored leadership training and offsite conversations for their staff. His Three-Point Impact ensures long-lasting health for your team and bottom line.
watch Keynote excerpts
Leading With Empathy Keynote
The Buoyant Leader Keynote
Culture of Well-being Keynote
Frequently asked questions
What makes Mark a top leadership keynote speaker?
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Mark brings decades of Fortune 50 public relations leadership and certified health coaching expertise to the stage. He delivers actionable, zero-fluff frameworks that prove leaders do not need to sacrifice their well-being to achieve peak, profitable performance.
Who is the ideal audience for Mark’s keynote presentations?
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Mark speaks to corporate leadership teams, HR executives, national associations, and high-growth organizations. His keynotes are engineered for leaders who want to build resilient, connected teams and entirely eradicate high-stakes burnout culture.
Does Mark customize his keynote speeches?
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Every presentation is meticulously customized using pre-event research and stakeholder interviews. Mark ensures the core message directly addresses the specific strategic goals, industry trends, and cultural challenges of your unique audience.
What is the ROI of booking Mark for a corporate event?
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Mark’s keynotes are relentlessly practical. Rather than just inspiring an audience with a “sugar high” for an hour, he equips attendees with tangible frameworks, like The CHASE Model, that spark immediate, measurable change the second they return to the office. Every talk is designed to directly improve enterprise retention.