Mental Fitness Coaching is a holistic pathway to a better version of ourselves…. But how?
A mental fitness practice develops mind, body and spirit to unleash our true potential. It starts with a vision, a framework of goals and executed by a strategy that progressively upgrades our habits, turning our ordinary into remarkable.
“Coaching isn’t about answering your questions but shows you how to question your answers.”
Mental Fitness-based coaching leads to outcomes including:
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A greater understanding of who and WHY we are
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Improved quantity and quality of sleep
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Foster better relationships with ourselves and others
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Increase our capacity to be productive and manage stress
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Improved energy levels
What does Mark bring to every coaching session:
25 years of entrepreneurship
20 years of tech development in India
Experience a project manager, program director, client and service provider
Servant leadership, WFH and hybrid optimisation
Experience as an elite performer, on the sporting field and the stage
Qualifications in science, wellness coaching, mental fitness
Mark has had a technology career spanning the analogue to digital.
He began with Storyboard Multimedia Australia, consulting for the Grains Research and Development Corporation (GRDC) and pioneering the R&D platform, NVT Online. His journey continued with WebSource Pacific, where he established partnerships in India and managed significant offshore development for Australian clients.
Mark also launched roomsXML in Australia a successful wholesale online accommodation platform and played a crucial role in its merger with getabed UK to form Stuba, a Pune-based multinational where he served as CIO.
Through servant leadership, Mark has managed technology development, strategy implementation and organisational transformation.
He has spearheaded the evolution of tech platforms, from conceptual to CD-ROM to cloud deployments, with staggering results through his investment in his greatest asset; his teams.
Empathetic leadership was at a premium through 2020/21 which was the stage for some of the greatest deliverables of his career.
With severe budget cuts, working under the most challenging conditions, they delivered the biggest project of their career with 100% uptime.
Mark's experience also extends to startups like Fitzu, where he served as CEO, driving strategic planning and tech platform redevelopment.
“I just wanted to say thank you for everything you have offered me across the last few years. All the extra training session and support …across different lockdowns meant a lot to me, and are moments I will cherish forever. No only did these sessions aid me in improving my karate, but they also provided me with a real and genuine human interaction in a time so dependant on screens and in I way, I think it was these sessions that helped me enjoy and get through COVID.”
Teenage 1:1 Student
Mark is a 4th Dan Sensei and veteran national karate champion who competed internationally for Australia and qualified for the Obstacle course world championships as a 49 year old. He did all this while being a dad, teaching karate, studying and building a business.
Mark holds a Certificate in Mental Fitness and Health Coaching from Wellness Coaching Australia. He has always loved “optimisation”– fitness, productivity, happiness, growing a business, diet, injury management, being a good family man, time for friends, time for life. But blessed with high energy others say is way too intense he always wondered “gee, what if you could optimise the perfect day…”.
Overall, Mark's career is characterized by a blend of entrepreneurial spirit, offshore partnership expertise and a proven track record of success in technology development, strategy execution, and team leadership across various companies and ventures.
With that experience, he now coaches others to excellence.
Mark’s passion for Mental Fitness
Some people like to get fit, some people like to do sport, some people like to be a great parent, and some people want to grow a business to great heights. Some people like Mark wanted to do them all .
At the start of 2020, after years of rumours, at the start of the travel buying season, a competitor five times the size of his company in the local market went broke. Within two weeks , that s right, two weeks, his own company had grown 57% by being the good guys with and a focus on service.
Mark was also sensei Mark, the reigning veteran National martial arts champion, Australian team member and had qualified to represent Australia at the world Masters games in Tokyo. As well as managing the Australian market, Mark was CIO of the global business, with development team spread across Melbourne, the UK and India. He was time poor but energy rich and did not want to succeed for his own benefit at the cost of his family, especially his relationship with his young daughter.
When he flew to India at the end of January, the Australian news was filled with stories of bushfires and there was this thing happening in China.
By the start of April, Mark found himself on the brink of depression, alcoholism and had lost all purpose and all focus. How do you run a travel business when every airport in the world is shutting down? How do you deal with losing 14 years of a business that you’ve put your heart and soul into?
If only that was the worst thing that happened to people through the pandemic.
Soon Mark realised that it wasn’t just himself that needed help, but his family, his friends, colleagues and fellow athletes, especially the younger ones, who was seeing their opportunities disappear in front of them through no fault of their own.
Sadly for Mark, he lost his 14 year investment and millions of dollars of equity in the business. But determined to see this as an opportunity and not a setback, he continued developing his practice, journaling, writing and eventually being invited to deliver corporate presentations, throughout the pandemic to Indian organisations looking to keep their staff invigorated and motivated.
By this point, Mark was committed to elevating the performance of everyone around him and went on to complete his studies as a wellness coach, mental fitness coach and QualityMind Mentor and begin developing his ongoing knowledge of what it does take to become new you, version 2.0
