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Imagine stepping onto a skateboard for the first time in 38 years and thinking "Let's see if I can ride this 600 miles to Canada"

MEET MARK

"JUST ONE PIECE OF MAIL WAS THE KICK IN THE REAR I NEEDED"
-Mark Gibson

DO YOU EVER GET STUCK IN A RUT? We all do from time to time don't we? Companies become reluctant to embrace emerging opportunities. Organizations repeat the old routines that "have always worked", and people cave into the fear of failure and give up on their dreams. Mark was slipping into the habit of predictable familiarity until a single piece of mail dropped into his mailbox shortly after his 49th birthday.

It was his invitation to join AARP (The American Association of Retired People). A stark reminder that time doesn't get put on hold just because you've been putting your dreams on hold. Less than a year later he ran his first 50 mile ultramarathon. Next, a 100 mile run along the Florida Keys was soon followed by a 276 mile run across Pennsylvania. And the list is still growing! (See below.)

Mark developed the CAT Advantage for himself as a simple mindset reminder to always stay curious, think with bold audacity and persevere with relentless tenacity. Now he gets to share everything he learns in fun, engaging keynote speeches with his growing clan of "CAT people".

MARK IN A NUTSHELL: Mark takes on adventurous challenges for no other reason than to see if he can pull them off. Sometimes he succeeds ... sometimes he doesn't. Either way he learns something. But one thing is 100% guaranteed. He always comes away with a story. It's the stories he uses to inspire his audiences to explore their own Curiosities, develop the Audacity to believe in themselves and the Tenacity to persevere when everyone else is quitting.

SOME OF MARK'S ADVENTURES

3,400 mile bicycle ride from Santa Cruz, CA to Ocean City, NJ
5,000 mile bicycle ride across Europe
600 miles by skateboard from the Capitol building in Washington DC to the Parliament building in Ottawa, Canada.
276 mile run across Pennsylvania from Pittsburgh to Philadelphia (ten days - averaging over a marathon a day)
44 mile run across the Grand Canyon from rim to rim and back again
100 mile run along the entire length of the Florida Keys from Key Largo to Key West (29 hours straight through)
87 mile run in 24 hours (just to see how far I could go)
26.2 mile marathon up and down the Art Museum (Rocky) steps in Philadelphia (because Rocky is awesome)
100 km (62 miles) run around New York city
200 mile trek through the Nepal Himalayas
scuba dived the Great Barrier Reef, Australia
learned to surf/drown in Bali, Indonesia
bicycled the length of Great Britain from hometown of Southampton to John O'Groats, Scotland

44 mile run/hike/crawl through the Grand Canyon and a tough 31 miler through the Pennsylvania highlands

He's been inspiring audiences for over 20 years

Mark has had a blast speaking in 38 states to everything from small workshop audiences to crowds as large as five thousand!

Before he ever took on a corporate audience he cut his teeth inspiring teenage athletes. Working with kids you quickly discover that young people always learn more by doing than they ever will by just listening. And he brings that experience to his corporate audiences with stories, audience participation challenges and physical demonstrations.

And if he's not on stage or off getting new stories, he's...

in the gym teaching kids at his own gymnastics center in Pennsylvania. Formally a member of the British National team he has been coaching kids since 1982. Mark has been the assistant coach to the US Junior Olympic Team and is the author of "Going For It" a motivational book for teenage athletes.