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The Resilience Speaker

The Resilience SpeakerThe Resilience SpeakerThe Resilience Speaker

Motivational Keynote Speaker

Your people will walk away inspired by stories from Arctic adventures, about polar bears, storms and near death experiences, with a deeper understanding of how to become more resilient and thrive in adversity. The takeaways are immediately actionable for your people and your business. 


Mark has coined the framework JESS, based on the latest psychological research and his own experiences, to create happy and resilience staff. By focusing on Journey, Experience, Shared Experience and Sitting With Discomfort (JESS) anything is possible. A conference keynote speaker like no other.


Your audience will reap the rewards of Mark's astounding career as an world record setting adventurer, as he grips your people and delivers lessons in the psychology of resilience and teamwork. 


Signature Talks:


  • How To Find Your Polar Bear
  • Leaders As Solid As Ice
  • Tales from The Arctic with European Adventurer of the Year

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How To Find Your Polar Bear

To thrive in adversity, the key is to let go of the outcome. Mark stopped chasing world records, found his inner polar bear and achieved one of the greatest expeditions of our time. 


Themes: Resilience, bouncing back from setbacks, sitting with discomfort, keynote speaker

Key Takeaways

  • Resilience and teamwork are not static. They can be learned, honed and training
  • Mark will teach your people how to 'sit with discomfort', so they can feel stressed and thrive in their tasks anyway
  • Mark will help your audience reframe past failures as learning opportunities, so even failure empower resilience
  • Intrinsic motivations diversifies your company's KPIs, which is the ultimate resilience
  • Entertaining tales from the Arctic  

Benefits & ROI

  • Resilient people thrive during tough times, giving your company a competitive edge when it needs it most
  • Resilient staff bounce back faster from setbacks, saving your company time and money 
  • Reframing obstacles as challenges empowers your staff to solve issues before they escalate to costly problems

Enquire about Find Your Polar Bear

Leaders As Solid As Ice

In adventure, you depend on each other or you die - learn how to become the ultimate leader, to inspire resilience, hardiness and fulfilment in your team. 


Themes: Resilience, team cohesion, leadership 

Key Takeaways

  • The most important aspect to having a resilient team is having a resilient leader
  • Knowing the difference between task and social cohesion, and how the two concepts interact, will take teamwork to the next level
  • Your leaders can empower their staffs' resilience and teamwork by helping them 'sit with discomfort'
  • Amazing conference keynote speaker with stories from the Arctic 

Benefits & ROI

  • Leaders that understand resilience can pass it on, creating a more fulfilled and hardier team
  • A happy team goes further faster than a qualified group of unhappy individuals
  • Employee turnover is lower in happy, productive teams with inspiring leaders, which creates more resilience and teamwork
  • Do more than just survive adversity, thrive in tough times. 

Enquire about Leaders Like Ice

Tales from The Arctic with European Adventurer of the Year

A awe inspiring tale of 103 days through the Arctic's Northwest Passage, on a journey that made history


Themes: Entertainment, inspiring, resilience

Key Takeaways

  • Gripping stories about polar bears, sea ice, storms and near death experiences
  • The story of one of the greatest expeditions of modern times - a keynote speaker that will blow your audience away
  • Focusing on the process over the outcome makes you more resilient and empowers you to enjoy the journey


Benefits & ROI

  • Entertain your guests whether its at a conference or an after dinner event
  • Perfect conversation starter for networking events
  • Get bums on seats to restart your event after a break

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