MARK GIBSON
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Demo Video (3:45 mins)
Mark's Keynote Topic
Corporate Events, Annual Conferences, Trade Associations, Sales Meetings, Awards Banquets

UNnormal People           

WHY SOME PEOPLE HAVE... BETTER IDEAS... THE AUDACITY TO THINK BIG... AND THE TENACITY TO SEE IT THROUGH
Normal people have normal ideas, do normal things and get normal results
But...
​If you want your business to:
  • stand out from the competition
  • turn customers into fans
  • have more fun 
Then you're going to need UNnormal People

UNnormal People who:
  • would rather explore their Curiosities than live comfortably inside their familiar skill sets
  • are driven to act on their ideas by a confident Audacity instead of being paralyzed by self-doubt or a fear of failure
  • have the unshakable Tenacity to be fascinated by all the setbacks, roadblocks and challenges that have normal people quitting in frustration
Mark's entertaining and inspiring keynote draws stories and lessons from many of his own UNnormal adventures
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What will your people take away from a guy who has:
  • completed a 600 mile journey from Washington DC to Ottawa, Canada on a skateboard
  • run the entire 100 mile length of the Florida Keys
  • run 276 miles across Pennsylvania 
  • Run rim to rim to rim across the Grand Canyon
  • completed a 26+ mile marathon up and down the Philadelphia Art Museum (Rocky) steps
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Audiences learn how Mark uses his CAT philosophy to act on his Curiosities, think with Audacity and push himself with Tenacity.
A key component to fully exploring your team's potential or outperforming the competition is their ability to push themselves beyond the safe, familiar boundries of past success and habitually do things that "normal people" wouldn't even think of trying.

​In other words: TO BE UNNORMAL PEOPLE
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You were raised to be normal. Now it's time to learn how to be UNnormal
In school you succeeded by being the best normal you could be. Fit in, follow the rules, do it the way it's always been done. But in the big scary real world the greatest rewards go to those UNnormal people, companies and organizations with the courage to be innovative, follow their curiosities and embrace the unfamiliar.

They get to raise the bar while the timid normals get to play a frustrating game of ineffective catch-up. 
MARK TEACHES PEOPLE HOW TO THINK, ACT AND BE UNNORMAL
Mark provides a "mind-shift moment" that resets the default habits of his audience.
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AUDIENCES LEARN HOW TO:
  • step confidently into an uncertain future instead of clinging to the false security of past success
  • thrive on the chaos of growth
  • enthusiastically do what needs to be done whether they "want to" or not 
  • become fascinated by the same challenges that have "normals" quitting in frustration
  • recognize fear as just undeveloped confidence
Mark's audiences also learn that the hard core champions of "UNnormal" are those with enough talent to be in the game plus a critical cocktail of three indispensable qualities:
  • ​UNNORMAL CURIOSITY They live fully alive and engaged by being irrationally obsessed with learning a new skill or qualifying for some higher level challenge
  • UNNORMAL AUDACITY They have a self-belief bordering on arrogance that has a positive effect on everyone they come in contact with
  • UNNORMAL TENACITY They are fascinated into taking action by the same setbacks, failures and fears that frustrated their less driven (but frequently more talented) peers into quitting​
Mark Has inspired audiences in 38 states over the last 20 years.​
He has led everything from intimate workshops with small groups of key people to major keynotes to a large audiences. His largest was over five thousand.

His style is
a mixture of:
  • entertainment
  • audience involvement
  • inspiration.
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Entertaining (so they'll be engaged)
Mark is a master storyteller. He believes in putting his own advise into action and shares with his audience all the ups and downs of going after his own UNnormal goals. There was the impromptu gymnastics class he taught to a crowd of Nepalese kids in the Himalayas. Or the struggle of pushing a heavy loaded touring bicycle 5000 miles around Europe. Or the disastrous outcome of diving off a ten meter platform to impress a girl at the age of fourteen. (We've all been there.)

Audience Involvement (so they'll remember)
Before entering the corporate world Mark learned the craft of speaking from inspiring  teenage athletes. He quickly discovered that he has a lot more fun when his audience is having a lot more fun. He has been known to give phone book tearing lessons, stage hilarious flexibility contests and stump his audience with frustrating bar bets.

Inspiration (so they'll take action)
All the entertaining and audience involvement is for nothing if they don't leave with mind full of take away ideas that they can start putting into action before they even leave the room. Rather than temporarily motivate a reluctant crowd into briefly flirting with a "better attitude" Mark aims to create a true mind-shift moment that has a lasting effect.

Be UNnormal!

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"Those who were in attendance this morning and heard your presentation, raved about it.  Now everyone who did not attend is a bit jealous and anxious to hear you speak tonight."

"Wow! What a buzz Mark created at our recent membership meeting. His lively presentation combined all the elements we look for in a great program. It was fun, inspiring and informative."
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