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Skipper of the ‘World’s Toughest’ Around-The-World Yacht Race, Mark excels in leadership, teamwork, resilience, and navigating change. A multi-award-winning speaker, he shares valuable insights and lessons on overcoming adversity and achieving peak performance.
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A hardworking and conscientious leader and a very capable speaker who prides himself on striving for excellence in all that he does whether in business or sport – I can, without hesitation, recommend him!
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Mark is a Leadership, Team, Resilience and Navigating Change Expert, and multi-award winning keynote speaker, most recently voted the ‘Bookers Choice’ Award at the Speaker Awards 2024.
As a professional sailor and Captain, he’s raced in many of the sport’s most gruelling events. But it was the opportunity to lead an amateur team in the ‘world’s toughest’ around-the-world yacht race that was to be his making, an experience so rich that it’s Mark’s sole focus for his speeches.
This epic event sees 12 teams in identical yachts vying for glory across 10 months and 32000 miles, the ‘wrong way’ around the world. But these are not crewed by hardy professionals from the rarefied world of elite sport. Rather 100% amateurs, male and female, of different ages, backgrounds and nationalities, 70 % having never sailed before!
It’s the toughest Leadership and Team challenge in the book, and the ultimate laboratory to discover what culture really allows a disparate group of people to achieve the extraordinary when facing constant adversity, change and competition. And the results were surprising, in many ways rewriting the rules of how Leaders and Teams need to be to thrive in a brave new world.
And so it’s been Mark’s mission since to share the learning, recognising that the parallels for business were remarkable. And his audiences from many of the world’s greatest Organisations agree, captivating them in over 31 countries to date, and with consistent 5 star reviews.
See keynotes with Mark Denton‘BRAVING UNCERTAINTY’ is Mark Denton’s signature Leadership Keynote, taking audiences on a roller-coaster of a journey through the twists, turns, triumphs and tears of leading an amateur team to success in the world’s toughest around-the-world yacht race. This gripping multi-media account, challenges many of the existing outdated beliefs of how a Leader should be, rewriting these with new and proven frameworks that deliver sustained performance for a brave new world.
Mark will inspire and equip your leaders to:
And it’s all summarised neatly in his 3C’s model of how leaders need to be to deliver sustained performance in these turbulent times: Compassionate, Collaborative and Courageous.
Great for: Challenging mindsets of Leaders & Managers at every level, and for educating those looking to step up
‘TOGETHER WE TRIUMPH’ is Mark Denton’s signature Teamwork Keynote, an ‘edge of your seat’ multi-media journey through the ups, downs, twists and turns of an amateur team taking part in the ‘world’s toughest’ around-the-world yacht race.
This gripping account also reveals what allowed this team to thrive when facing constant adversity, change and competition. Mark summarises these into the 3 cultural factors that teams must embrace in order to achieve the seemingly impossible, no matter how choppy the waters:
Great for: All staff conferences and department events with a mix of Leaders and Team Members
‘NAVIGATE THE STORM’ is Mark Denton’s signature ‘Resilience’ keynote, a roller-coaster multi- media journey through the ups, downs, twists and turns of an amateur team taking part in the ‘world’s toughest’ around-the-world yacht race.
And as the gripping account unfolds, Mark shares his unique perspective on what kept him and the team resilient, including top-tips on how to nurture the 8 key factors summarised in the ‘Navig-8 Compass Model’; Purposeful Direction, Collaboration, Emotion Regulation, Optimism, Creativity, Anticipation, Courage and Persistence.
This simple but comprehensive framework that’s shared with attendees post event, equips them to:
Great for: Leadership/Management conferences and All-Staff conferences, especially where Organisations are facing turbulent times.
An inspirational and enthralling session which was utterly captivating and resonated so well with our audience.
Rob Miatt
The highlight of the conference and very well received by all participants who felt it was just so relevant.
Johanna Schmidt
I’ve seen hundreds of speakers over the years, Mark stands head and shoulders above them all. Relevant, captivating, Insightful.
Rachel Wakeley
Outstanding! We were hanging off every word and we also really enjoyed the psychological safety session. Some brilliant points to take back to the business and incredibly inspiring!
Sara Hetherington
We couldn’t have hoped for more from the 1 day Virtual Masterclass sessions we ran. 100% attention, 5 star feedback and our leaders visibly moved afterwards by what they’d experienced and heard. It was everything we were hoping for!
Sunny Lin
A hardworking and conscientious leader and a very capable speaker who prides himself on striving for excellence in all that he does whether in business or sport – I can, without hesitation, recommend him!
Richard Olver
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