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Everything Mark Pollock does is about inspiring leaders and their teams to build resilience, optimise performance and collaborate with others so that they achieve more than they thought possible.
TED Speaker and Keynote professional on Resilience and Performance. Explorer at the intersection where humans and technology collide. Catalyst of $150 million in neurotech projects. First blind person to race to the South Pole. Author and doctoral researcher in elite performance. WEF’s Forum of Young Global Leaders Alumni.
Unbroken by blindness at 22 and paralysis at 34, Mark Pollock combines personal experience with doctoral research into elite performance to deliver keynotes that move people to action. A TED speaker and catalyst of $150M in neurotech projects, he inspires leaders and teams to move beyond challenges, by building resilience, optimising performance, and collaborating effectively.
It is tough to deal with uncertainty and change. Your people won’t do it by chance. With a high-impact catalyst you can help them act with the courage to make it happen.
Mark Pollock is that catalyst, and that’s why leaders worldwide have invited him to inspire their teams to build resilience, optimize performance, and collaborate effectively for over 20 years.
As a TED speaker and accomplished keynote professional, Mark combines insights from personal experiences – racing to the South Pole and catalysing neurotech projects worth over $150 million – with doctoral research into elite performance.
Mark says, “The reason to bring in a speaker is to move the audience emotionally. It can never be about the speaker, rather it must be about engaging the audience to help them achieve more than they thought possible – that is what I aim to do every time.”
Trusted by leaders in hundreds of companies including Diageo, Cisco, Mercedes F1, Red Bull, Goldman Sachs, Unilever, Google, Microsoft and Pfizer, Mark has inspired tens of thousands of people worldwide with his keynotes and masterclasses. In addition, he has spoken at TED, Davos, the World Economic Forum, Talks@Google, EG, and Wired.
Focusing on the themes of resilience, performance and collaboration, Mark delivers 2 types of sessions:
1.Keynotes: talk and audience Q&A delivered over 30-60 minutes.
2.Masterclasses: talk, facilitated interview & Q&A delivered over 45-60 minutes.
Sometimes we choose our challenges, sometimes our challenges choose us. What we decide to do about them is what counts. Deciding to be a competitor, a realist and a collaborator offers your people a chance of maintaining a resilient mindset under pressure. Mark Pollock’s keynote on adversity and challenges uses the power of active decision making to deal with challenges, regardless of where they come from, to help your people become more resilient.
Uncertainty and change typify a crisis and it’s difficult to lead in such circumstances. By providing your people with insights into the resilience, attitude and decisions of others facing extreme circumstances you will help them to develop the intrinsic motivation to move forward. Mark Pollock’s keynote on leadership and motivation delivers deep insights for leaders to navigate through the crucible moments they face and lead others to achieve more.
It is tough to deliver world class performance. Your people won’t do it by chance. With a highimpact catalyst you can help them act with the courage to make it happen. Mark Pollock’s keynote on mindset and performance is that catalyst – it challenges your people to examine expectations of themselves and others to perform at a higher level.
Galvanising a disparate group of people around a common goal is not easy. Yet when it happens, when we collaborate, that is when major breakthroughs happen. Mark Pollock’s keynote on collaboration and teamwork provides your people with insight into how highperformance teams get things done when others can’t.
Exploring the intersection where humans and technology collide is essential for businesses to maintain their competitive edge. By raising the consciousness of your people to the human dimension of the 4th industrial revolution, you will empower and encourage innovation at the edge. Mark Pollock’s keynote on human enhancement provides your people with insight into the transformative intersection of technology and humankind as he explores a cure for paralysis using robotics, neuro-modulation, AI and VR/AR.
At a time of relentless uncertainty, we invited Mark into EY to share his insights into turning challenges into opportunities. It was outstanding and we look forward to having Mark deliver another session in the coming months.
Outstanding! Mark is a skilled natural conversationalist, deep thinker, engaging speaker and resilient leader.
