Mark Black

How do you cope with the unprecedented challenges we face? By mastering adaptability. This program offers a roadmap to stay strong, evolve your mindset, and lead with impact. In a rapidly changing world, those who serve others are stretched thin. Leaders face burnout and emotional strain. They don’t need motivation, they need tools to adapt, grow, and stay anchored in purpose.

In The Adaptability Advantage™, Mark equips your team with tools to reframe challenges, shift perspective, and reignite professional zeal. He reveals how to harness The Adaptability Advantage, a mindset and method for rising through challenge, staying steady under pressure, and leading through change. Drawing from his journey, running marathons with someone else’s heart and lungs, Mark doesn’t just talk about grit; he lives it.

Key Learning Outcomes:

• Discover the traits that define highly adaptable people, and how to build them
• Learn how to respond to change with less stress and more purpose
• Get practical strategies to build mental and emotional stamina
• Leave with renewed energy to lead, serve, and thrive, even in hard seasons

How do you cope with the unprecedented challenges and changes we are all facing today? Master the art of excelling amidst unprecedented challenges. Elevate your ability to serve, regardless of external circumstances. Experience the transformative power of The Resilience RoadmapTM – the step-by-step formula for leveraging change into growth.

Are you ready to propel your organization to unprecedented success? In a world of relentless change and high stakes, the key lies in a compelling vision and unwavering team commitment. Level Up™ is more than a program, it’s a catalyst for transformation and journey into the heart of what makes teams excel.

After surviving a life-threatening illness, undergoing a heart and double-lung transplant, and completing four marathons, Mark’s journey is an extraordinary story of resilience. In Level Up™, he doesn’t just share his story, he connects it to your organization, igniting a clear and powerful vision for the future. Elevate your results through the transformative power of vision and resilience of Level Up™.

Key Learning Outcomes:

• Discover what’s holding your team back from greater achievement
• How to cultivate REAL motivation that lasts
• Help your people understand and leverage internal drivers for better performance
• Stretch your team’s vision of possibilities and create an action plan for meaningful results

Transform your team’s mindset and reignite their passion with Live Life from the Heart™, a pivotal program designed to elevate resilience and restore joy amid professional challenges. In today’s high-pressure environment, it’s easy to lose sight of purpose. An ideal opener or closing session, Live Life from the Heart™ is more than a talk, it’s a transformative experience.

This program helps your team reconnect with what matters most — unlocking potential, energizing their day, and renewing pride in their work. Mark shares his profound personal journey, guiding your audience through the art of acceptance, offering insights and practical tools to navigate the uncontrollable, reframe challenges, perspectives, and focus energy where it truly counts.  Expect a powerful shift leaving them empowered.

Key Learning Outcomes:

• Master the art of acceptance, focusing on what’s within their control.
• Heighten presence in a distracting world
• Rediscover the deep pride and passion in their work.
• Emerge as the best versions of themselves, motivated and inspired

You care about your patients. You want to give them the best care possible. You can’t be expected to do that unless you know what really matters to them.  Through Your Patients’ Eyes™ is more than a reaffirmation of the value of your work; it’s a comprehensive guide for healthcare professionals looking to master empathetic, effective patient care.

Mark’s lifetime as a patient with chronic illness guides the narrative, as he shares profound insights into patient experiences, and delivers practical strategies, and real-world applications that will profoundly impact your patient care approach and deepen your understanding of patient interactions.

Key Learning Outcomes:

• The essential ‘Do’s and Don’ts’ to ensure every patient feels genuinely cared for
• Master three immediate techniques that foster connection, trust, and understanding with your patients,
• Discover how to turn each day into energizing, fulfilling experiences that reduce burnout and increase job satisfaction through meaningful patient interactions

We often tell students to do “the right thing,  but achieving anything of meaning requires you to “do the hard thing.” In a world where convenience and ease are valued more than determination and grit, students often believe better means easier, missing out on the best parts of life.

In this thought-provoking, inspiring program, Mark shares how the best things in his life came from what initially seemed like terrible situations. Students learn practical strategies for reframing challenges and embracing their flaws, becoming the best version of themselves.

Key Learning Outcomes:

• Results are created by your decisions. If you don’t like your results; change your decisions.
• The best way to deal with problems is to face them head-on.
• It is great to dream with a positive attitude, but unless you DO something, nothing will change.
• The most successful people are the most determined: If you never quit, you succeed, or you learn.

With 34% of high school students having experienced moderate to serious levels of psychological distress,  and suicide being the 3rd leading cause of death (ages 15-24) teens are more stressed than ever before

Even while working as a “motivational speaker” Mark struggled with an anxiety disorder and depressive episodes, intimately understanding how it feels. He’s not a therapist or psychiatrist, rather he’s lived through it and found a way out.

In this powerful presentation, Mark incorporates humour and humility to open an authentic and encouraging dialogue, providing students with practical strategies to improve mental health, to better cope, and learn it’s okay to ask for help.

Key Learning Outcomes:

• Permission to talk: students are encouraged to talk to those they trust about how their feelings
• Learn how to build mental resilience before you need it
• Strategies for coping with challenges and encouragement in asking for help

Teens are at a critical time in their personal development. Too often, we patronize teens with meaningless motivational messages. “You can do ANYTHING” is a phrase most teens have heard in some form or another; they immediately tune out because they know… it’s not true! I

In “Level Up” Mark will use his life story of battling a life-threatening disease, surviving a Heart & Double-Lung Transplant, and running 4 marathons to help your students see new possibilities for themselves.

If you need to stretch the vision of your organization and help your people set bigger goals, this is the program for you.

One-on-one coaching is a powerful way to grow and realize your potential. Get unstuck, stay accountable, and follow through on the things you know you should do.

Mark’s clients have increased revenue, improved relationships, and made more progress in three months than in a year alone.

You want to get the most out of your team. Whether you lead a business or association, you need everyone engaged and performing at their best.

Mark helps clarify values, align goals, and create an action plan that ensures your team moves together toward shared success.