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Mark Denton

Leadership Expert, round-the-world yacht race skipper

International award-winning speaker sharing his learning from leading a diverse amateur team to success in the ‘worlds toughest’ round-the-world yacht race, to help leaders, teams and organisations navigate their own storms and deliver breakthrough results

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"A game-changing speaker everyone will remember forever"

Pierre Olivier Landry, 
HRD, 
Ceva Logistics

"Everyone should see this! I’ve never come across anything as impactful that grips leaders in a way that this remarkable story does"

Sam Holland, 
Head of L&D, 
Leicester City Football Club

"A highly skilled coach and a very capable speaker who prides himself on striving for excellence in all that he does whether in business or sport – I totally recommend him"

Richard Olver, 
Chairman, 
British Aerospace

"An exceptional example of leadership speaking that educates and inspires"

Judges, 
International Visual Communications Association Awards

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Mark Denton's 2023 biography

Who is Mark Denton?

Mark is a leadership expert and celebrated keynote speaker with vast experience navigating turbulent waters. In his professional sailing career he’s competed in countless races and sailed over 80,000 miles across the worlds’ most hostile oceans. The pinnacle was leading a diverse amateur team to success in the ‘world’s toughest’ round-the-world yacht race the BT Global Challenge 2000-01.

But Mark also draws on 20+ years of consulting with some of the worlds’ greatest organisations, helping to reshape their cultures and improve their resilience to deliver better, faster and more sustainably, especially in times of disruption and change. He’s also an expert on building psychological safety, the foundation of high performing teams, and is a recognised partner with Amy Edmondson’s’ ‘Fearless Organisation’.

It’s the unique combination of this experience that’s encapsulated in ‘Navigate the Storm’, and led Mark to win a coveted IVCA Gold Award for this ground-breaking multi-media keynote and interactive ‘Masterclass’. Consequently he has spoken at thousands of events in over 31 countries, achieving consistent 5 star reviews from all who have been educated and enthralled.

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Mark Denton's 2023 talks & topics

NAVIGATE THE STORM

Mark’s signature keynote, taking audiences on a roller-coaster of a journey around the world through the up’s and downs, twists and turns of this epic endeavour, whilst revealing what really made the difference.

Topics include the importance of creating the right culture for performance, having a compelling purpose, vision and aligned values, diversity and inclusion, setting and achieving bold goals, and why psychological safety is the foundation for collaboration, innovation and motivation. The learning is summarised into 3 main factors that Leaders and Teams must pay attention to – the need to create a culture that’s ‘Safe, Happy and Fast’.

NAVIGATE THE STORM - RESILIENCE

The same roller-coaster of a journey around the world, however, this time the focus is on the factors that led to the team’s Resilience, the NAVIG-8 COMPASS being built from each stage of the race as the team learns what’s crucial to keep them moving forwards no matter what the challenge. The factors are Purpose, Collaboration, Emotion Regulation, Optimism, Creativity, Anticipation, Courage and Persistence.

25-35 minute speeches (can be told in a series rather than sharing the whole story all at once):

NAVIGATE THE STORM - READY TO RACE

A deep dive into the pre-race preparations that the team did to build a high performing culture for the race ahead, based on the eight key factors in the CULTIV-8 Compass; Establishing and aligning around your True North (purpose) and your North Star (vision), establishing customer needs in relation to that, and the same for your employees. Identifying critical operational success factors, and agreeing what behaviours will be required to deliver all this by encapsulating them in a set of Values. And lastly, having an enabling structure and the right supporting systems that allows the team to optimally perform.

NAVIGATE THE STORM – STORM TO PERFORM

A deep dive into Leg one of the race when performance was suffering in the early stages due to the team experiencing some classic dysfunctions including internal competition, silo working, poor communication, unhealthy conflict and a lack of accountability to voice the issues due to low psychological safety and trust. But on day 3, Mark decided it was time to build psychological safety and confront the issues, unite the team to overcome the challenges, set new goals, gather diverse perspectives and ideas as to how to move forward, experiment with solutions, establish effective communication channels, and focus on delivering the results which are the 8 factors within the COLLABOR-8 Compass.

NAVIGATE THE STORM – LIFT THE TROPHY

A deep dive into what it took to turn the team around from a mixed set of results through Legs 1,2,3 of the race to emphatically win leg 4. Topics covered and summarised in the DOMIN-8 Compass include building psychological safety, setting big bold goals, establishing critical success factors, challenging self-limiting beliefs, creativity and innovation to introduce fresh approaches, trying ideas out with low-risk experiments, learning from failure, and executing with courage and persistence

Mark Denton's 2023 speaking fees

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