Mark Wood

An established polar explorer and adventurer who operates within the extremes of our planet. Expeditions include reaching the Magnetic North Pole, the Geomagnetic North Pole twice, and completing solo expeditions to both the Geographic North and South Poles. He has been a part of major BBC and Channel 5 documentaries and over the years has trained and led people in the extremes of the planet.

Mark is a remarkable team and leadership developer with a unique perspective on leadership and team progression from his experience in the military and the fire service. He uses his own experiences from extraordinary circumstances on Everest or in hazardous situations to bring out the qualities of a modern-day leader of business. He has guided novices through challenging and dangerous storms in the Arctic on numerous expeditions, and from those learnings, he shares parallels universally applicable with leadership in the modern era.

He is an exceptional storyteller and professional educational speaker, and through his narrative Mark can give clarity to companies on how strong leadership can be viewed and how it can enhance business, adding value to an organisation’s direction and enhancing both focus and performance for their teams. Mark has a natural ability to engage his audience by sharing honest accounts of his extraordinary journeys across the world’s most extreme environments. The hard-won lessons from diverse experiences and expeditions across unforgiving landscapes and situations, are shared with humility, allowing the audience to easily connect whilst his ultimate passion is to allow people to understand the planet and their own full potential and personal growth.

Mark’s keynote topics:

• My life in a freezer
• From pioneers to modern day exploration leadership
• Thinking differently and agile planning
• Below zero decision making
• Leading from the back
• Leadership, resilience and mindset
• High performing teams
• Climate change witnessed first hand