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Meet Mark Wales.
Mark shares the fundamentals that helped him win on the battlefield, and in business transformation.

As a former special operations commander, Mark Wales is used to operating in dynamic, high stress situations where personal and team performance means the difference between life and death.

The same challenges are found in competition: the need to lead yourself and teams well, to stay mission-focussed, and to transform quickly when needed. In his motivating and engaging keynotes, Mark shares his experiences in leading combat units, and transforming world-class businesses to provide insights on high performance pillars.

Mark’s mastery of the fundamentals of resilience, transformation and execution can help your team triumph in any competition.

Mark is a former McKinsey & Company consultant and has an MBA from the Wharton School of Business.

Making people and teams, better, stronger.

High performance can be generated from a series of proven habits.

High performance team habits include a culture that allows people to prioritise achieving the mission, supporting the team, and maintaining their own needs. High performance personal habits include personal adherence to continuous learning, exercise, good eating, and quality rest. The skills needed to be a high performance individual, team leader, or team member consist of some mindsets and capabilities that can be taught. 

That is my promise to you – to train you and your team in the habits that will unlock human potential in your organisation. These are the same habits that allowed me to join special ops units, elite businesses and the world’s top colleges. I do this with interactive keynote presentations, workshops and consulting that impart the knowledge, skills and values I learned in my own journey.

Making people and teams, better, stronger.

Keynote Speaking

Who Dares Wins: High performance for teams and individuals

Hear how Mark was able to use his experience leading an elite special forces team in combat to drive decision making and personal performance.

After exposure to the traumas of war, Mark used high performance habits to recover, attend an Ivy League college, and then launch a compelling career as an entrepreneur and father. Mark’s practical lessons about recovering from the traumas of war are key to any organisation looking to promote wellness and resilience in their people.

Mark focusses on practical tips you can apply from Day 1 to promote high performance in teams and individuals, and Q&A after the presentation allows the audience to explore topics in more detail with Mark.

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Focused on skills and mindsets needed to lead teams under extreme uncertainty. Using examples from Special Operations, startups, and McKinsey, Mark focuses on tactical tips you can use from Day 1 to improve your leadership and drive results.

Focusing on the skills and mindsets needed to lead teams under extreme uncertainty and using examples from Special Operations, startups, and McKinsey, Mark focuses on tactical tips you can use from Day 1 to improve your leadership and drive results.

Focusing on the skills and mindsets needed to prevent mental illness, and to recover and grow from trauma and failure, Mark draws from neurobiology and uses personal examples to illustrate a proven approach to prevention, recovery and growth from failure and trauma.

Mark reviews the importance of strategy, execution, and agility in any competitive system, drawing lessons from warfighting in Afghanistan. Useful tips on how to apply this from Day 1 are included in the talk.

Mark shares anecdotes about a hard-earned lesson: execute quickly, with a sound plan. Learn about goal setting, asymmetric warfare, contingency planning and the impact of emotions in a team setting.

In this 45 minute session, Mark focuses on using 4-count breathing to dampen stress responses and improve quality of decision making. This is an interactive class that uses heart rate monitors to demonstrate the benefits of deep breathing in a stressful situation.

Outlines the hierarchy of needs that any effective leader should follow. This is a useful carry over of military values into business settings, proven by 2,000 years of history. Mark discusses the importance of rest, nutrition, exercise and growth for maintaining your foundation as an individual leader.

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Workshops

The Emerging Leaders Workshop is a half-day program that improves team and individual performance for emerging leaders.

“Leading Self” provides training in personal purpose, productivity and resilience.

“Leading Others” includes training on developing your team (coaching and feedback), execution, and communication.

The Emerging Leaders Workshop is a highly interactive workshop that Mark leads personally with engaging examples and exercises.

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Consulting

Mark is a former McKinsey & Company (NYC) consultant who brings data and personal experience to bear in problem-solving within your organisation.

He is especially experienced in delivering Emerging Leaders training and Executive Coaching.

His experience in McKinsey & Company includes executive-level support in the fields of Recovery & Transformation (materials and mining), retail operations (eCommerce) and Program Management (online learning).

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Testimonials

Mark Wales was an outstanding Guest Speaker at our regional health service AGM. With a mixed audience of over 200 people including staff and community members, Mark’s fabulous presentation and his very powerful messages resonated with all. The feedback from those attending was exceptionally positive. A truly inspirational man. I could not recommend him more highly as an inspirational and motivational guest speaker.
Northeast Health Wangaratta
Mark delivered a thought-provoking and insightful presentation. He displayed a level of vulnerability which was refreshing and enabled the audience to connect with him and his story. Mark also provided some very practical tips and was able to inspire others to make positive changes for both to improve mental health and perform better in the workplace. Mark made himself available during breaks and lunch to speak with individuals and answer questions and this was appreciated by many. On an administrative note, Mark was easy to contact, engage with and he was punctual and well prepared.
Department of Defence
Mark spoke to our group of approximately 100 executives at a high profile leadership offsite. He led topics related to mental health and effective techniques for stress management in the workplace. He was deeply credible and highly engaging, drawing on his experience from both the battlefield and the boardroom. We would be thrilled to have Mark join us again in the future and would certainly recommend him for other engagements.
McKinsey & Company, Dallas
Wanted to thank you for your presentation to the team on Friday. The feedback from the team was fantastic and certainly hit the right cord in terms of personal and professional challenges. Congratulations on what you have achieved with your business venture to date and if you don’t mind I may get in touch closer to my trip to NY at Christmas for some places to check out. Until then, all the best and ‘who dares wins’!
Design and Build
Mark was very engaging and provided the perfect message that the team required as we head into another year of selling. Mark delivered a message that demonstrated mental strong, commitment, ownership and emotion. I would highly recommend Mark.
Mimecast Aust. Pty. Ltd.
In his ‘Peer Perspectives on Leadership’ keystone speech at Wharton, Mark passed on thrilling lessons about life and leadership as a Troop Commander in the Australian Special Air Service Regiment. The unit specialized in sensitive strategic operations, hostage recovery, counter terrorism, and precision air strikes. Mark completed 10 tours of duty overseas, including in Afghanistan, Iraq, Lebanon, East Timor, and the Solomon Islands. Experiences in each of these countries taught Mark about the importance of how personal values and your perspectives on life can shape your approach to leadership. An unforgettable talk.
Wharton School of Business
I engaged the speaking services of Mark Wales to talk to a team of 30 high level sales consultants about teamwork, resilience, persistence & high performance. Mark not only did this with eloquence t ease & professionalism, he also had the sales team actively engaged throughout his talk by way of questioning and group activities/discussions. I would highly recommend engaging Mark to talk to your staff if you want them to move from good to great.
Sales Team Leader
Mark's engaging talk stood out from all the other corporate presentations our team has seen. There were slides filled with personal pictures that helped enhance the stories he was sharing from his time in Special Ops. His unique and interesting experience had takeaways that were directly relevant to our work in business. It was a great way to learn some great tips around working on teams, stress management and doing what you love. I would highly recommend him to any audience looking for a unique and interesting presentation!
Operations Leader, McKinsey Academy
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Book Coming Soon: Ivy Wars

Modern combat and the journey home - a look inside the psyche of a special ops soldier in Afghanistan.

Mark illustrates the ferocity of combat in modern warfare and it’s impact of continuous stress on the mind of a soldier. This is a book aimed at any executive experienced in working at full throttle, and in search of an authentic perspective on high performance teams and how to manage self-care, including mental health and resilience.

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