A “Breakout Moment”
A “Breakout Moment” When I was a young boy I wrestled with my brothers all the time. Our wrestling matches
You don’t drown by falling in the river. You drown by staying submerged in it.
Owner/Founder
I have had the privilege of working 1:1 with business owners, CEOs, and executive leaders across various industries. Coaching is not just what I do—it’s what I love. It’s a transformative process that has changed my life and the lives of my clients. I understand the unique challenges executives face because I’ve lived them myself as a business owner and leader.
When I hired my first coach in 2000, I was stepping into a demanding role as the CEO in my family’s manufacturing business. Like many of my clients, I had doubts: Would coaching make a difference? Would I be a “good” coaching client? Would coaching be worth the investment? What I discovered was life-changing and set the course for my professional journey over the past 20+ years.
As an Executive Business Coach, I specialize in partnering with business owners and executives to help them confront fears, navigate challenges, uncover possibilities, and achieve meaningful growth. If you’re ready to explore a coaching partnership that will change your life—forever—I’d love to connect with you.
There is no worse feeling than to be stuck in your life or your business and knowing a new way of living life exists on the other side of being unstuck. Sometimes, as in almost always, the thing in your way is you. Most likely the thing that has you stuck is a habit, a routine, a belief, a story, or a thought.
I have been working with executives and the teams they lead for over 20 years. My work is designed to listen into your blindspots. To help you hear, see and discover breakthroughs to the other side. I know it is possible because I am you. I approach my work, and all of my conversations, understanding intimately what it feels like to be stuck and then set free. Free from habits, routines, patterns, beliefs, stories and thoughts that stand in the way of greatness.
Sometimes
if you move carefully
through the forest,
breathing
like the ones
in the old stories,
who could cross
a shimmering bed of leaves
without a sound,
you come to a place
whose only task
is to trouble you
with tiny
but frightening requests,
conceived out of nowhere
but in this place
beginning to lead everywhere.
Requests to stop what
you are doing right now,
and
to stop what you
are becoming
while you do it,
questions
that can make
or unmake
a life,
questions
that have patiently
waited for you,
questions
that have no right
to go away.
Sometimes if you move carefully through the forest, breathing like the ones in the old stories, who could cross a shimmering bed of leaves without a sound, you come to a place whose only task is to trouble you with tiny but frightening requests, conceived out of nowhere but in this place beginning to lead everywhere.
Requests to stop what you are doing right now, and to stop what you are becoming while you do it, questions that can make or unmake a life, questions that have patiently waited for you, questions that have no right to go away.
My Executive Coaching program with Mark was one of the best development opportunities I have been exposed to in the last 15 years. It provided me with additional tools and perspective in dealing with both tactical and strategic scenarios in an everchanging, complex business climate.”
Managing Director Apple Canada
Mark’s coaching has helped me be a better person both professionally and personally. He has provided the tools to help me drive business results and create a meaningful sense of work-life balance. I couldn’t have asked for more. In a year of unprecedented uncertainty, Mark’s coaching
Senior Sales Executive HP Canada
Over the course of the past 10 years I have had the opportunity and the pleasure of participating in a handful of Strategic Team Planning sessions facilitated by Mark. In looking back over these sessions I am amazed at how successful we were at achieving the specific goals
CFO
My time with Mark goes back about a decade. We hit a growth plateau and were stalled. Mark gathered the entire team, and we embarked on a journey that was transformational - and a renewed stage of growth was the result. I watched as he skillfully invited the most reticent team member into the conversation and conducted an orchestra of ideas from the various constituents. We have Mark to thank for the launch into a better, more effective and yes, more fun approach to working together to change our world. Thank you, Mark!
CEO Project CURE
My Executive Coaching program with Mark was one of the best development opportunities I have been exposed to in the last 15 years. It provided me with additional tools and perspective in dealing with both tactical and strategic scenarios in an everchanging, complex business climate.”
Managing Director Apple Canada
Mark’s coaching has helped me be a better person both professionally and personally. He has provided the tools to help me drive business results and create a meaningful sense of work-life balance. I couldn’t have asked for more. In a year of unprecedented uncertainty, Mark’s coaching
Senior Sales Executive HP Canada
Over the course of the past 10 years I have had the opportunity and the pleasure of participating in a handful of Strategic Team Planning sessions facilitated by Mark. In looking back over these sessions I am amazed at how successful we were at achieving the specific goals
CFO
My time with Mark goes back about a decade. We hit a growth plateau and were stalled. Mark gathered the entire team, and we embarked on a journey that was transformational - and a renewed stage of growth was the result. I watched as he skillfully invited the most reticent team member into the conversation and conducted an orchestra of ideas from the various constituents. We have Mark to thank for the launch into a better, more effective and yes, more fun approach to working together to change our world. Thank you, Mark!
CEO Project CURE
A “Breakout Moment” When I was a young boy I wrestled with my brothers all the time. Our wrestling matches
Silver Bullet When I was a kid my younger brother and I were absolutely crazy about The Lone Ranger. It
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