MARK SAMUEL

TRANSFORMATIONAL THOUGHT LEADER

Entrepreneur | Speaker | Executive Producer | CEO/Board Advisor | Investor | Philanthropist

BIO

Mark Samuel has been dedicated to transforming businesses, culture, and individuals for over 40 years. He is an entrepreneur, investor, keynote speaker, philanthropist, and executive producer for the award-winning documentary, The Courage to Thrive, which has been featured in over 20 Festivals worldwide.

Having authored 7 award-winning and bestselling books on accountability and transformational leadership, Mark has been recognized as the leading expert in Accountability and a thought-leader for Transformational Leadership, with appearances on CNBC, Bloomberg, Fast Company, Fortune Magazine, and Forbes.

Mark’s legacy projects involve groundbreaking Apps and Self-Learning Systems to help individuals overcome fear and barriers to success and fulfillment including “My Picture of Success” to transform fear into an optimal experience for an upcoming surgery or medical procedure, and “Taking Charge of Your Success,” a self-learning program for Being the Best YOU Can Be and Taking Charge of YOUR Results based on Positive Accountability. Both programs apply Mark’s unique rapid change methodology used by Fortune 500 businesses on five continents.

As a thought leader, practical visionary, and sought after keynote speaker, Mark’s leading-edge methodologies are represented in North America, Europe, Latin America, Asia, and Australia. His more recognized clients include Michelin, Texas Instruments, RBC (Royal Bank of Canada), Roche Pharmaceuticals, California State Universities, Kaiser Permanente, Saudi Electricity, Chevron, the Netherlands Health Care System, Ameren Utilities, and Habitat for Humanity to name a few.

Mark's Been Featured At...

Executive Coaching & Consulting

As a trusted advisor to C-Suite leaders, Plant Managers, and GMs globally, Mark Samuel offers positive accountability-based executive and management coaching to assist individual leaders in developing strategies to create the new behaviors and habits their organization needs to perform at higher levels. Mark’s coaching relationships are designed to help manage individual issues which can surface during group process that are most effectively handled one-on-one, and can be a powerful complement to training and consulting programs to develop their relationship skills or to improve their achievement of business results.

Typical objectives include developing skills in critical management areas such as:

  • Strategize changes in business model, organizational structure and implementing culture change

  • Improve Strategic and Critical Thinking for Business Results in order to develop effective strategic plans to achieve organizational transformation

  • How to diagnose and resolve organizational, team and individual performance challenges

  • Develop Strategies and Coaching skills for becoming a more effective business leader, improving team performance and relationships, as well as individual performance and influence

  • Develop Positive Accountability-Based Facilitation Skills that include working with group dynamics, and creating a strategy between the various issues presented by a group

  • Develop Strategies and Techniques for measuring and tracking performance execution, key initiatives and organizational change

  • Develop Communication Strategies to increase influence and promote transformation

  • Develop skills in Leading Effective Meetings, monitoring projects, improving relationships on the team and promoting successes to others.

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WHY HIRE MARK for KEYNOTE?

Why Inspire Your Audience with Mark Samuel

Mark Samuel has inspired audiences all around the world with his enthusiastic thought leadership that elevates people’s heart, mindset, and confidence. Mark’s interactive presentations build self-awareness, Emotional Intelligence, teamwork, and critical thinking using positive and practical thought-provoking messages that leave people feeling empowered and hopeful for the future. His style brings lighthearted humor, sincerity, and humility that audiences relate to regardless of age, gender, culture, or status. Utilizing his formal teaching background, Mark engages his audience to optimize experiential learning and practical application.

Mark’s breadth of topics is based on his experience designing and executing rapid business and culture transformation within entrepreneurial to billion-dollar companies around the world. His specific topics represent being recognized as an authority on Accountability and Conscious Business Leadership.

Mark’s 10 Most Popular Topics

  • Creating Breakthrough Changes in Your Life and Organization

  • 3 Keys for Transforming Paralyzing Fear into a Positive Experience

  • Empowering Teams to Achieve Rapid Breakthrough Results

  • Building Execution Trust – The Key to High Performance

  • The Power of Positive (Inner) Accountability to Accomplish Your Dreams

  • Leading Urgent Business Transformation

  • Inspiring High Performance and Fulfillment at Every Level

  • Fostering Personal Ownership that Drives Success

  • 3 Keys for Setting Priorities that Leverage Breakthrough Results

  • The 100% Principle to Foster Balance in an Overwhelming Environment

SPEAKER

Mark’s keynote presentations are inspirational, humorous, and actionable in a way that improves the workplace and people’s personal life. Mark has a unique way of expanding people’s mindset and giving people a roadmap for changing habits to increase effectiveness and success. Whether talking about organizational changes, leadership at every level or his specialty in personal, team and organizational accountability, Mark’s presentations link heart and practicality together to leave people inspired to take action.

Mark’s keynote speeches are entertaining, and involve audience participation that enlightens each person. As a result, they have greater ownership and apply the paradigm shifting concepts and tools presented. Ultimately, participants want to hear more, learn more, and are enthusiastic to integrate the message and strategies presented into the workplace and in their personal lives.

BOOK ACCOLADES

Gay Hendricks
Ph.D., Author of the Best-selling book, The Big Leap

“Mark Samuel’s book provides a highly useful roadmap to a higher level of functioning he calls ‘B State.’ Business leaders everywhere could benefit from reading this book and applying its powerful tools.”

Arianna Huffington
Founder, The Huffington Post and Thrive Global

"An inspiring guide to being accountable in all aspects of your life - from work to home to relationships...a roadmap to achievement and a source of practical wisdom."

Victor Cho

Former CEO of Evite

“I have focused on business and organizational transformation for the last 25 years, and I can attest that the key levers that Mark describes in this book work: a powerful shared purpose, collaborative vs. siloed priorities, and building positive energy—these are the pillars of a successful transformation.”

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"Making Yourself Indispensable …A terrific operations manual for getting and staying in the driver’s seat of life."

David Allen
Author of Getting Things Done and Productivity Consultant
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"Reimagine Teams inspired me to turn my way of thinking about team dynamics upside down. With Mark Samuel’s captivating examples and powerful framework, we now have a way to approach team improvement that leads to lasting and significant change. This book will save leaders countless hours of frustration focusing on symptoms instead of the root causes of team breakdowns."

Jamie Woolf
Co-founder of Creativity Partners and former Director of Culture and Learning, Pixar
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"Our mission is to teach youth the three new R’s: Respect, Resiliency, and Responsibility. An underlying value for achieving this end is personal accountability. The concepts and methods taught in [Making Yourself Indispensable] are practical and valuable for teenagers and anyone guiding teenagers to become future leaders and responsible citizens."

Stu Semigran
President and Co-Founder, EduCare Foundation
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"He’s done it again! Mark Samuel has written another compelling, relevant, and engaging book on how to move an organization from ‘A State’ to ‘B State.’ Beyond organizational accountability, Samuel’s practical tips and critical insight help leaders effectively drive organizational performance to meet desired outcomes and goals. Very seldom today do you read business books that deliver an ‘aha’ moment. B State does not disappoint; it is a must-read for any executive."

Jim Barnes
CEO of enVista

PODCASTS

Reimagining Teams

with Dr. Madelyn Blair

On The Brink

with Andi Simon

Old Rules to Break

The Tony Durso Show

The Power of Personal Accountability

with Charlie Hedges

B State - A New Roadmap to Success

Everyday MBA

Leveraging Thought Leadership

with Peter Winick

This is how you should build a team

with Debra Wood

Thought Leadership

with Mitch Levy

TESTIMONIALS

Mark's Work With Teams

When people leave our leadership workshop, they are on fire to create a high performance workplace. Once they return to work, they encounter the same traditional work culture they left the week before. Embracing Mark’s approach to Accountability creates a confidence and freedom to overcome obstacles versus being overwhelmed by them. Mark’s wisdom is a gift; we share that gift with all our clients.

Sue Bingham
Founder, HPWP Consulting, LLC

I researched for years looking for a simple way of describing accountability without all of the negative stuff associated with it. The Personal Accountability Model is the answer. This method has assisted my staff and our employees move away from resistance, blame, or hiding and to learn how to take full accountability for the success of their actions. As a result, we are more successful than ever.

Paul Trinidad
Director, Customer Supply Chain Latin America / Vistakon, Johnson & Johnson

The Accountability Workshop carried out with our Leadership team has been critical in aligning the vision of each leader around self and employee empowerment, and it has allowed us to send a consistent and powerful message on what we expect from our people. Then main impact has been the reinforcement of the leadership of our managers whom have reinvented their role to face the challenges of the company with enthusiasm, energy and maturity. My experience is that Accountability is a extremely powerful tool to align an organization towards its objectives.

~Susan Gomez
Director of Human Resources / Kellog Corporation in Spain

I have known Mark Samuel in multiple business consulting settings over many years and I have seen him address and positively transform the biggest corporate challenges you can imagine. Mark has a unique genius for strategy, transformation, and helping others to personally and professionally lead meaningful change.

Dr. Jonathan Ellerby
Author of the best-selling book, Inspiration Deficit Disorder

Contact Mark

To schedule with Mark directly, please contact Aireal Taylor at:
[email protected]
1-518-637-4326