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If you are searching for a Captivating Speaker to Educate, Engage and Inspire your Leaders and Teams, get in touch today.
Around The World Race Skipper,
Leadership, Teamwork & Resilience Expert, Award-Winning Motivational Speaker.
Mark is a Leadership, Team and Resilience Expert with vast experience navigating turbulent waters. In his professional sailing career he’s competed in countless races and sailed over 80,000 miles across the worlds’ oceans, his most notable achievement leading a diverse amateur team to success in the BT Global Challenge, dubbed ‘the worlds’ toughest around-the world yacht race’.
But Mark also draws on 20+ years of working with some of the worlds’ greatest organisations, helping to reshape their cultures and improve their Leadership and Team Resilience to deliver better, faster and more sustainably, especially in times of disruption and change.
And he’s a multi-award winning speaker, most recently voted the ‘Bookers Choice’ at the Speaker Awards 2024. So you know you’re in safe hands.
Masterclasses are Mark’s international award winning keynote speeches made interactive and competitive over half or 1 day! It’s the ultimate Leadership or Team development event!
Rather than share all the learning in a one-way download, Mark builds the story up to key challenges he and the team faced before putting those challenges onto the delegates in teams to solve, in a series of breakout sessions.
You’ve come this far, why not take the final step!
Mark takes his audiences on a roller-coaster of a journey, through the twists and turns of this epic endeavour, whilst revealing the secrets that allowed his team to thrive, despite facing constant adversity, change and competition. And the results were surprising, in many ways rewriting the rules of how Leaders and Teams need to be to deliver sustained performance in these turbulent times.
And when combined with masterful storytelling, stunning images and the most gripping footage, it’s so immersive you could be forgiven for thinking you’re actually on the team!
But don’t just take our word for it, here’s some from those who’ve already experienced the impact, insight and inspiration Mark always brings.
Outstanding organisations chose Mark
Excellent
Just spent 3 hours in the company of Mark and a group of colleagues and we are all buzzing about his story and what we can do with the new ideas he has given us.
Neil Stevenson
I had the privilege of Mark talking to us at work in a small group; I was hooked from the start and loved the story telling which really enabled me to engage with the narrative and then able to relate the different leadership styles and how I may use different styles and which ones should be used in different situations.
Fiona Gittus
If you want your company to work more efficiently, communicate better and grow the team you need to see Mark Denton present his rollercoaster sail around the world. Epic
Mark Platten
Attended Mark’s session at San Diego, CA. Amazing inspiring story from which everyone could take something to learn and growth.
Ihor
Engaging, thought provoking, entertaining and thought provoking in an open and approachable way…
Paul
Mark joined us on our Leadership & Culture Day 2024 and provided us with a very inspirational and engaging keynote on leadership and teamwork “Together we Triumph”.
Thank you for sharing your experiences and your journey with us, Mark!
Mareike Kahl
This was absolutely amazing! Walking through the “Sail” gave a perspective to the “lesson to be learned” presentation.
Mark also allowed his own experience to not just be a “here’s how I was great so so this” but a “shift your paradigm”
M Michaelis
Mark’s presentation, “Navigating the Storm,” is an absolute must-see! It brilliantly delves into the trials and triumphs of team dynamics, offering invaluable insights into team structure and the importance of psychological safety.
A captivating journey through the ups and downs of teamwork that’s relevant to any professional setting!
Mauricio Vives
Great message from Mark about how teamwork really helps to navigate through the storms, great message at our conference. Our team members really enjoyed his message.
I think having Mark join us for our dinner helped him understand our culture and use that to help to convey they message to our team in a way they could relate.
Cheryl Kennedy
Outstanding presenter, keeps audience engaged and the story of his journey mirrors so many experiences we have in business.
So many great lessons of how great leaders learn to get ordinary people to do extraordinary things.
Walt Hartl
The Oceans are the ultimate ‘VUCA’ environment, constantly changing and presenting new challenges. And the race highly competitive. The combination is an exact mirror of the global business environment today.
This is a story about normal, relatable people, male and female, of different ages, backgrounds and nationalities, coming together and trying to achieve the extraordinary, rather than those from the rarefied world of elite sport.
It was not about which team had the best people, rather who had the best culture, One with the sharpest focus, the strongest collaboration, the greatest resilience, and learnt their way through the challenges quicker than anyone else.
In sport, as in business, all roads lead to Leadership. And Mark shares in intricate detail what he got right, but also what he got wrong, so that your leaders can learn the secrets of success, and crucially, avoid the pitfalls.
The challenges and opportunities that Mark and his team faced, are the one’s that your Leaders and Teams are facing right now. So the insight is exactly what’s needed to create sustained success in these uncertain times.
The methodologies Mark shares are not only easy to grasp, remember and apply, but are also backed up by academic rigour. And they can be put into practice the very next day, for immediate benefit to your Leaders, Teams and their results.
“Braving Uncertainty” is Mark Denton’s signature Leadership Keynote, taking audiences on a roller-coaster of a journey through the twists, turns, triumphs and tears of leading an amateur team to success in the world’s toughest around-the-world yacht race.
This gripping account, challenges many of the existing outdated beliefs of how a Leader should be, rewriting these with new and proven frameworks that deliver sustained performance for a brave new world.
Mark will inspire and equip your leaders, summarised neatly in the 3 C’s model of how Leaders need to be to deliver sustained performance in these turbulent times – Compassionate, Collaborative and Courageous.
“Together we triumph” is Mark Denton’s signature Teamwork Keynote, an ‘edge of your seat’ multi-media journey through the ups, downs, twists and turns of an amateur team taking part in the ‘worlds toughest’ around-the-world yacht race.
This gripping account also reveals what allowed this team to thrive when facing constant adversity, change and competition.
Mark summarises these into the three main cultural factors that teams must embrace in order to achieve the seemingly impossible, no matter how choppy the waters.
And that’s a culture that’s Safe, Happy and Fast.
“Navigate The Storm” is Mark Denton’s signature ‘Resilience’ keynote, a roller-coaster multi-media journey through the ups, downs, twists and turns of an amateur team taking part in the ‘worlds toughest’ around-the-world yacht race.
And as the gripping account unfolds, Mark shares his unique perspective on what kept him and the team resilient, including top-tips on how to nurture the 8 key factors summarised in the ‘Navig-8 Model’ that builds as the story unfolds.
The 8 factors are Purpose Direction, Collaboration, Emotion Regulation, Optimism, Creativity, Anticipation, Courage and Persistence.
Mark’s Signature Speech Topics, guaranteed to get your audiences thinking and feeling differently about Leadership, Teamwork and Resilience.
Each is a mix of compelling narrative peppered with ‘sticky’ original phrases, blended with gripping images and footage, all set to a powerful music score. The learning is highlighted throughout and neatly summarised at the end with an easy to remember framework for putting it into action the very next day.
Not there but ‘oh so there!’
With Virtual events here to stay for so many, Mark has invested in professional studio technology that allows him to beam into any virtual, physical or hybrid conference anywhere in the world, and in the most compelling way – full screen and ‘at one’ with his content! He also stands to present, allowing for greater energy, body language and presence, as if he was right there. Welcome to the ‘Virtual Stage’!
