Mark Gasparotto

Mark Gasparotto

KEYNOTE SPEAKER

Ottawa, Ontario

Leadership & Team Building Expert | Resilience & Wellness Advocate | Entrepreneur

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  • Business & Corporate
  • Entrepreneurship
  • Inclusive Leadership
  • Leadership
  • Personal Growth
  • Resilience & Adversity
  • Mindset & Attitude
  • Peak Performance
  • Stress Management

MARK GASPAROTTO BIOGARPHY

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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Clearing the Way: Combat Engineers in Kandahar
Clearing the Way: Combat Engineers in Kandahar
The story of 23 Field Squadron, Canadian Combat Engineers, during their deployment in Kandahar Province, Afghanistan. Chronicling how they overcame the challenge of asymmetric warfare, while under the threat of IEDs and a determined Taliban foe to establish a footprint in the Kandahar region...

Articles & Magazine Feature

Former military commanders offer ideas for keeping sane, healthy in COVID-19 lockdown

CBC

Living and working in the same space with family in ever-present proximity — even with the occasional walk and blast of Netflix — is a shock to the system, especially when no one can tell you when it will be all over. Submariners and soldiers know exactly how you feel and they've got a few ideas for keeping you sane and healthy over the long haul."I can relate to what families are going through," said former colonel Mark Gasparotto, a combat engineer who fought in Afghanistan.
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Articles & Magazine Feature

Retired colonel Mark Gasparotto makes leadership his business

OTTAWA SUN

Mark Gasparotto’s leadership skills were put to test during two tours of duty in the crucible of Afghanistan. “I think the experience of going to war — any time you’re on operation — the environment is so pure from a leadership perspective,” says Gasparotto, who retired from the military in 2017 after a much-decorated, 20-year career.
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Articles & Magazine Feature

Christie Blatchford: Spare the austerity, spoil the military

National Post

With Canada’s combat mission in Afghanistan ending this week and the nation awash in an attendant flurry of publicity, the usual questions are being asked: Was it worth the loss of “blood and treasure” (the common phrase, cloying in my view, for those who were killed or injured)? Did Canada achieve anything lasting? How will Afghanistan fare?
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Articles & Magazine Feature

Unlocking the many mysteries of PTSD

SALTWIRE

When Virginia Shaw heard of the recent murder-suicide in Springhill her mind flashed back to October 2013. “There was a behaviour in him, almost like a pacing lion,” remembered Shaw of her husband that day. “. . . I couldn’t talk to him, couldn’t look at him, couldn’t negotiate. There was no life in his eyes — almost as if his soul was missing or gone.” There were many images that haunted Cpl. Shane Porter of the First Battalion, Nova Scotia Highlanders, from the 10 days in 1998 he spent “bagging and tagging” body parts collected along the shore after Swiss Air Flight 111 crashed near St. Margarets Bay.
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Mark Gasparotto Topic Presentations

Clear the Way™: Master Your Inner Game™

  • Virtual PresentationKeynote PresentationWorkshop SessionHalf Day TrainingFull Day Training
  • Leading Others Effectively Starts With Leading Yourself. The impact of this self-leadership extends far beyond the individual, influencing team performance and organizational profitability.

    Quality leadership is not a nice-to-have, it’s a business imperative.

    By mastering the Inner Game, leaders Clear the Way for themselves and their teams to not only survive but thrive in the storm, turning daunting challenges into opportunities for growth.

    Key Audience Takeaways

    • Address their greatest personal leadership challenge.
    • Discover the power of influence over being right.
    • How strong leaders own their experiences and become better people for them.
    • How to learn to build personal resilience by Struggling Well.

    Key Organizational Benefits

    • Increased individual contributor productivity leading to higher team performance.
    • Enhanced trust – the #1 determinant of team effectiveness.
    • Elevated accountability as employees own the problems regardless of their origin.
    • Foster resilience and wellness leading to less conflict, absenteeism, and burn-out.

    It’s the Inner Game of Leadership that drives the Outer Game of Success.

     

Struggle Well™: Thrive in the Storm

Mark Gasparotto Speaking Testimonials

There was such a powerful silence in the room! Mark Gasparotto was able to capture all our 900 delegates’ attention immediately. A powerful storyteller with great stage presence, he offered genuine, authentic, practical, and generous insights that can be put to work immediately. Participants are now better equipped with tips, tricks, and a toolset to help them lead themselves and others. Mark Gasparotto exceeded expectations and more!

Jérémie Emond

Director General – Real Property and Environment at Natural Resources Canada / RPIC National Workshop Co-Chair
Real Property Institute of Canada

Mark Gasparotto did a really good job drawing connections between leadership of self and how that helps teams develop collaboration and trust, with outcomes being healthier, stronger, psychologically safe teams. Outputs are then much more effective and impacted by that leadership of self, leadership in teams, and finally, leadership in organizations.

Superintendent Derek Needham

Ontario Provincial Police

A captivating story and inspirational message leading to practical leadership lessons — genuine and real life. The team was quite captivated by his message; we used Mark’s inspiration to have our own discussion on how everyone at Searidge could be a better leader.

Moodie Cheikh

CEO
Searidge Technologies

Mark spoke at our annual Client Conference, which Vistage recommended. His 3-hour session was a roller coaster ride of self-awareness, offering insanely insightful perspectives on decision-making that extended into personal life interactions. His experiences, from military service to the entrepreneurial arena, resonated deeply with our global audience, prompting us to engage the Gasparotto Group for additional leadership development programs.

Kenny Johnston

President
Bill Gosling Outsourcing

Mark’s keynote presentation breaks down leadership to its fundamental core by telling a compelling and captivating story. Orangutech’s executive team had a few new members, and through spending the day going “Outside the Wire” with the Gasparotto Group, the team gelled by learning from Mark’s keynote and by experiencing team challenges, decision-making, and problem-solving.

Barry Doucette

CEO
Orangutech

Mark is a remarkable speaker who seamlessly blended his real-world experience with a deep understanding of technical and theoretical leadership concepts. His ability to intertwine personal anecdotes with academic insights created a captivating experience that resonated with each of our leaders. Mark created immersive learning experiences that provoked thoughtful and insightful conversation while sharing invaluable lessons learned along the way.

Kristi Cawthorn

CEO
Startec

Mark Gasparotto Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Mark Gasparotto Keynote Speaker delivers customized and tailored keynote presentations, workshops, and training sessions on a wide variety of topics. Each presentation is unique and are designed for a variety of audiences, industries, conferences, and event formats.

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