Corporate Events, Annual Conferences, Trade Associations, Sales Meetings, Awards Banquets

Top Ten Reasons People Hire Mark

  1. We need to get out of the habitual routine of just "doing things the way they've always been done"
  2. We need to stop being so intimidated by big ideas
  3. Our creative thinking needs a kick in the pants
  4. We need to get the whole team on board with new changes
  5. Constantly motivating lethargic team members is unproductive. We need people who know how to be self-motivated
  6. We need everyone to step up their game to pull off this difficult challenge and not just quit at the first setback
  7. The complainers and whiners have too much influence on our team culture. It's time to celebrate the innovators
  8. We need to focus a bit less on what we've done and more on what's next
  9. We need people who can handle the chaos of growth and stay focused on the objectives ahead
  10. We need people who treat challenges like a puzzle to be solved not a chore to be avoided

THE C.A.T. Advantage
A mindset model for hatching great ideas, boldly pursuing them and crushing the obstacles along the way
What is the CAT Advantage?
  1. The Curiosity to habitually seek out bold new challenges to build on your past successes
  2. The Audacity to overcome fears and self-doubt and take confident, decisive action 
  3. The Tenacity to persist through all the inevitable setbacks, failures and frustrations of pushing your boundaries 
Using entertaining stories and relatable experiences Mark inspires your audience to get out of their comfort zones and into the unfamiliar world of their greater potential. HE TEACHES THEM HOW TO BE C.A.T. PEOPLE!

Videos of Mark's Keynote

Highlights Video (3:45 mins)
Short Program (22 mins-uncut)

Learn from someone who follows his own advise

The stories, the lessons, the insights, the failures, the frustrations, the setbacks and the successes from...
  • 3,400 mile bicycle ride from Santa Cruz, CA to Ocean City, NJ
  • 600 mile journey from Washington DC to Ottawa, Canada on a skateboard
  • running the entire 100 mile length of the Florida Keys straight through
  • averaging more than a marathon a day for ten days (274 miles) running from Pittsburgh to Philadelphia 
  • running/crawling 44 miles, South Rim to North Rim and back to the South Rim across the Grand Canyon
  • completing a 26+ mile marathon up and down the Philadelphia Art Museum (Rocky) steps
  • and more... (see the "about" page for the deets)
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
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 adventures. 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.
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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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