Mark Gasparotto
Keynote Speaker | Ottawa, Ontario
Leadership & Team Building Expert
Resilience & Wellness Advocate | Entrepreneur
Mark Gasparotto Expertise Business & Corporate, Entrepreneurship, Inclusive Leadership, Leadership, Personal Growth, Resilience & Adversity, Mindset & Attitude, Peak Performance and Stress Management.
About Mark Gasparotto
Colonel (Retired) Mark Gasparotto is a three-time decorated combat leader, successful entrepreneur, and author who fuzes his varied academic, military, and business backgrounds to bring to life the art and science of leadership and resilience. Mark Gasparotto credits much of his battlefield results and subsequent recovery to the intentional work on his Inner Game, believing that he has a duty to share his hard-won experiences in the service of building stronger communities. Employing those same battle-tested techniques, Mark Gasparotto helps people and teams to Struggle WellTM and Clear the WayTM — to live, learn, and lead into their potential.
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Colonel (Retired) Mark Gasparotto is a three-time decorated combat leader, successful entrepreneur, and author who fuzes his varied academic, military, and business backgrounds to bring to life the art and science of leadership and resilience.
Mark Gasparotto is the President of Gasparotto Group, a boutique consultancy that provides clients with customized, pragmatic, and evidence-based leadership solutions. Mark Gasparotto combines his 10+ years of entrepreneurial experience, 20+ years of uniformed service as a combat engineer officer, and a master of leadership to deliver impactful and practical leadership insights for clients such as Rogers Communications, General Dynamics Land Systems, The Ontario Provincial Police, NAV Canada, and the Ottawa Redblacks.
As a military officer, Mark Gasparotto served in key leadership roles in international hotspots such as Bosnia, Afghanistan, and Haiti and credits much of his battlefield results and subsequent recovery to the intentional work on his Inner Game. From commanding small tactical units to overseeing large, multinational peacekeeping operations, his emphasis on results, teamwork, and effective communications elevated him to the upper ranks of the Canadian Armed Forces. Mark Gasparotto was awarded his first Meritorious Service Medal for his actions under fire in Kandahar. His role as a senior leader in the United Nations Peacekeeping Mission in Haiti earned him a second Meritorious Service Medal and a Brazilian Army Medal.
With an Engineering Degree, a Master’s in Defence Studies, and a Master of Leadership, his rugged intellectualism allows him to translate his intense experiences into practical and actionable leadership participant takeaways. Mark Gasparotto is certified in many psychometric assessments, including Myers-Briggs, Emotional Quotient, and the full suite of Human Synergistics tools. Functionally bilingual in English and French, Mark Gasparotto enjoys engaging in bi-lingual exchanges during his presentations.
A member of the TEC Canada (Vistage) community, Mark Gasparotto was awarded the Impact Speaker Award for 2020. Mark Gasparotto is the co-author of Clearing the Way: Combat Engineers in Kandahar — now an award-winning documentary film. With a second book in his sights, in 2025 Mark Gasparotto and his team at Gasparotto Group intend to conduct a 1000 km canoe expedition of the Ottawa River, departing from its headwater and finishing at the Nation’s Capital. Mark Gasparotto has been interviewed by CBC News, National Post, Ottawa Sun, and Canadian Military Family Magazine.
Mark Gasparotto believes that he has a duty to share his hard-won experiences in the service of building stronger communities. Employing those same battle-tested techniques, Mark Gasparotto helps people and teams to Struggle WellTM and Clear the WayTM — to live, learn, and lead to their potential.
Mark Gasparotto is an outdoor enthusiast who enjoys pushing his personal limits in cycling, cross-country skiing, and wilderness expeditions. That, and parenting two vibrant adult daughters — his greatest leadership challenge.
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Mark Gasparotto Ottawa, Ontario, Canada delivers keynote presentations, workshops, fireside chats, moderated Q&A, and other presentation formats on a wide variety of topics. Each presentation is unique, customized and tailored for audiences, industries, conferences and event formats.
Clear the Way™: Master Your Inner Game™
Struggle Well™: Thrive in the Storm
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