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Mark Denton
Captain in the ‘World's Toughest' Around-The-World Yacht Race, Leadership, Team and Resilience Expert, Multi-award winning keynote speaker
Bio
Mark is a Leadership, Team, Resilience and Navigating Change Expert, and multi-award winning keynote speaker, most recently being voted the ‘Bookers Choice’ at the Speaker Awards 2024.
Mark’s background is in professional Ocean Racing, where he had 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.
“Exceptional speaker, remarkable story, profound insight”
Jonathan Hirst, CEO, Dreams PLC
Keynotes
Featured Keynote
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BRAVING UNCERTAINTY
‘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This gripping multi-media account, challenges many of the existing outdated beliefs of how a Leader should be, rewriting these with new and proven frameworks that deliver sustained performance for a brave new world.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:
- Blur the lines between Individual, Team and Organisation Purpose
- Let go of control in favour of collaboration
- Value being vulnerable rather than being invincible
- Overcome obstacles with questions not answers
- Set bold goals and achieve more than you ever thought possible
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
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