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TO LEAD OTHERS EFFECTIVELY, STARTS WITH LEADING YOURSELF
Quality leadership is not a nice-to-have, it's a business imperative.
THE CHAIN OF IMPACT
In a world overshadowed by dark clouds and storms of complexity, the call for strong leadership is louder than ever.
Yet, the essence of effective leadership lies deep within, in what we call the 'Inner Game.' It's the Inner Game of leadership that drives the outer game of success.
That is the Chain of Impact: Individual productivity, team performance, and organizational profitability.
ABOUT
Col (Ret'd), MSM, CD, MA
A decorated combat leader, successful entrepreneur, and author, Mark fuses his varied operational and business background with a Masters in Leadership to bring to life the art and science of leadership.
His rugged intellectualism allows him to translate his intense experiences into practical and actionable leadership participant take-aways. A member of the TEC Canada (Vistage) community, Mark was awarded the TEC Impact Speaker Award for 2020. He is the co-author of Clearing the Way: Combat Engineers in Kandahar — now an award-winning documentary film. Mark credits much of his battlefield results and subsequent recovery to the intentional work on his Inner Game. He believes that he has a duty to share his hard-won experiences in the service of building stronger communities.
Employing those same battle-tested techniques, Mark helps people and teams to struggle well and clear the way — to live, learn, and lead into their potential.
Keynote Topics
Stories that spark. Messages that Mobilize.
Clear the Way:
Master Your Inner Game
Leading Others Effectively Starts With Leading Yourself.
The impact of this self-leadership extends far beyond the individual, influencing team performance and organizational profitability.
Quality leadership is not a nice-to-have, it's a business imperative.
By mastering the Inner Game, leaders Clear the Way for themselves and their teams to not only survive but thrive in the storm, turning daunting challenges into opportunities for growth.
Key Audience Takeaways
- Address their greatest personal leadership challenge.
- Discover the power of influence over being right.
- How strong leaders own their experiences and become better people for them.
- How to learn to build personal resilience by Struggling Well.
Key Organizational Benefits
- Increased individual contributor productivity leading to higher team performance.
- Enhanced trust - the #1 determinant of team effectiveness.
- Elevated accountability as employees own the problems regardless of their origin.
- Foster resilience and wellness leading to less conflict, absenteeism, and burn-out.
The Inner Game of leadership drives the Outer Game of success.
Struggle Well:
My Experiments with Resilience
Success in life is learning how to Struggle Well.
Many people think that resilience is an innate trait of being so tough that you are impervious to stress, but the truth is that it is a skill that can be taught, learned, and practiced.
As we learn to struggle well we move from Vulnerability to Readiness, from Resistance to Adaptation, and from Exhaustion to Growth.
Building resilience starts by doing hard things that strengthen your body, mind, heart, soul, and social network.
Key Audience Takeaways
- How to hack the neuroscience and physiology of resilience.
- How to prepare for adversity by developing protective factors.
- How to perform optimally under stress by executing coping strategies.
- How to recover by facilitating healing and adaptation.
Key Organizational Benefits
- Empower a workplace culture that embraces and thrives on challenges.
- Build agility and foresight within the organization for proactive problem-solving.
- Ensure critical projects succeed, unaffected by external stressors.
- Foster a culture centered on continuous learning and adaptation.
Resilience can be taught. You can learn to Struggle Well.
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