LEADERSHIP KEYNOTE SPEAKER AND TEAM FACILITATOR
Healthy Teams. Confident Leaders. Happy Customers.
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“Mark gave 200 of our global communicators both the permission and the space to develop a plan to take better care of themselves. The session was honest, data-driven, and genuinely action-oriented.”
— Michelle Taylerson, Amazon
Healthy Teams are Wealthy Teams
A healthy team knows its role, understands how its work influences the business, and is trusted to do its job. When leaders get communication, confidence, and connection right, three things happen.
Your people win.
Toxic culture is the number one predictor of people leaving and is ten times more powerful than pay.
MIT Sloan Management Review
Your leaders wins.
People who trust their team leader are 12x more likely to be fully engaged.
ADP Research Institute
Your customers win.
Teams in the top quartile of employee engagement score about 10% higher on customer ratings.
Gallup
Mark has built healthy, confident, and connected teams under intense deadlines.
Mark ran global communications teams. He knows the deadlines, the pressure, and what it looks like when good people burn out — because he watched it happen around him, and to him. After a 150-pound weight-loss journey, he now helps companies build healthy teams through Keynote Conversations™, team facilitation, and offsites where people say the truth, decide together, and leave with a plan they’ll actually run.
Testimonials from three different seats in the room.
The event planner.
“From our initial communication to his time on stage, he was professional, responsive, and genuinely committed to making his session a success.”
America’s Credit Unions
The decision maker.
“Our team was so impressed that we’ve hired Mark to host more conversations to ensure we’re living a Culture of Well-being. We cannot recommend him enough.”
Ashley Hickson, Mutual of Omaha
The attendee.
“I've seen a lot of workshops and speakers that promise to motivate, inspire and provide concrete tools, but fail to deliver. Mark nails this in the first ten minutes.”
Jacque Coe, APR, Fellow PRSA
Mark’s Signature Areas of Focus
Companies work with Mark to address at least one, if not all three, of these challenges.
Well-being and Burnout
Your people know they should take better care of themselves. They don’t know how to do it in a week that already doesn’t fit. Mark makes it specific enough to start Monday.
Communication
The real conversation is happening in the hallway, not the meeting. Mark moves it back into the room.
Trust and Confidence
Sleepless nights are usually about something unsaid. Mark’s sessions get it said, kindly and directly.
How to work with Mark:
Keynote Conversation
Start here. An interactive session built around your people and your industry. 45 to 90 minutes, steeped in data, insights, humor, and engagement. Your audience walks out with something they can use the same day.
Team Facilitation & Offsites
Go deeper. Mark sits with your team and names what's been going unsaid. No personality colors. No letter types. No trust falls. Half-day, full-day, or multi-day. You leave with a written plan: decisions, owners, dates.
The Three-Point Impact™
Make it stick. Mark’s signature program. Includes one keynote, a facilitated team session, and follow-up coaching on priority topics. This is a long-term investment that builds healthy, confident, and connected teams.
What separates Mark from others? He shares the microphone with the room.
Mark doesn’t host pep talks that fade once he leaves the stage. These are working conversations that happen to be keynotes.
Real-time Polling
No two engagements are the same. The room sees the results in real time.
Built for your room
Mark interviews your stakeholders before the event. Your people’s own words show up on the screen. That’s why attendees say it felt written for them.
Valuable
Participants leave with a commitment, a decision, a next step in their own handwriting as an artifact that extends the conversation.
“Mark Mohammadpour firmly subscribes to the time-proven Service Profit Chain: happy and healthy people = happy and healthy clients = happy and healthy businesses. Partnering with Mark is an asset for any company looking for a strategic employee well-being partner to reduce turnover and help meet their business objectives.”
— Kim Sample, PR Council
Don’t take Mark’s word for it.
99% of attendees rate Mark’s sessions as valuable.
98% of attendees want to watch Mark speak again.
100% of clients say they will hire Mark again.
Verified independently by Talkadot. See the live scores here.
Book Mark for your event.
Reach out to Mark about your upcoming event.
Email Mark at mark@chasingthesunpdx.com, call him at 360.609.1077, or fill out the form below.
Mark will respond to you within one business day.
Frequently asked questions.
What is a Keynote Conversation?
It’s a keynote that your audience actively participates in throughout. Instead of listening to Mark for an hour, they answer live polls, work through real situations, and decide together what to change. Everyone participates. They leave with one thing they can use immediately.
Does Mark customize the session?
Every time. Before the event, he interviews your stakeholders and asks your people what's actually happening on their teams. Their answers show up on the screen. That's why attendees say the talk felt written for them.
What's the difference between a keynote and team facilitation?
A keynote starts the conversation in a big room. Facilitation finishes it in a small one. In a facilitated session, Mark sits with your team, names the friction nobody has said out loud, and guides the group to a plan with owners and dates.
What is the Three-Point Impact™?
Three steps: the keynote, a facilitated team session, then follow-up coaching. Most sessions fade by Friday. This is what makes the change stick.
Where is Mark based, and where does he travel?
Mark is based in Portland, Oregon, and speaks at events across the country and beyond.