Empowering Financial Services Leaders to Shine
Mark Mohammadpour’s exuberant and interactive keynote speeches and workshops motivate healthy, committed, confident, and empathetic financial services teams.
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The Two Trillion Dollar Question: How to motivate stressed financial services employees while experiencing record growth?
The financial services market is booming. AI could propel global banking industry profits to a staggering $2 trillion by 2028(1).
In a world in which relationship management, customer experience, and service are critical, you are trusting your team to play a significant role in that growth.
Yet the employees who are driving that growth are becoming increasingly exhausted.
A recent study found 31% of financial services and banking professionals are planning to leave the industry due to high pressure (2).
Healthy Culture Isn’t Just a Perk. It’s a Business Strategy.
Helping you design and execute this strategy is my specialty. Backed by data. Built for impact.
Hi, I’m Mark Mohammadpour, your energy-boosting Chief Well-being Officer.
Global speaker, columnist, and advisor on building healthy, confident, and empathetic teams.
Accredited communication executive, leading award-winning 8-figure budget global teams.
150-pound natural weight-loss journey.
Proud husband and puppy parent!
Situation: Mutual of Omaha is experiencing significant growth, which means a number of new employees are joining the company. Even though 93% of employees at Mutual of Omaha say it is a great place to work—compared to 57% of employees at a typical U.S.-based company.*—the company knew it needed to do all it could to future-proof its leaders and future leaders to meet its customers’ needs while being brand advocates.
Length of partnership: 12 months
Approach: To engage Mutual of Omaha employees more deeply, we implemented a “Three Point Impact” series of in-person and virtual keynotes. Topics focused on Leading with Empathy, Personal Well-being, and Team Leadership. Each talk utilized real-time polling for open-ended and multiple-choice questions throughout the conversation, the results of which were shared with Mutual of Omaha. We also reiterated relevant Mutual of Omaha employee benefits and programs such as employee resource groups.
Over the course of the three talks, Mark connected with more than 500 Mutual of Omaha employees.
Results: More than 95 percent of attendees throughout Mark’s three sessions gave them highly favorable ratings.
Quote: “Mark’s unique ability to take his approach to employee well-being, adapt it perfectly to his audience, and deliver a relatable, practical, and actionable approach that we can implement right away is inspiring. We needed a speaker who could engage with the audience while delivering value in a short amount of time. And Mark did exactly that. So much so that teams are more mindful of building empathetic relationships, watching the number of meetings they hold or participate in, and taking time to connect and check in with one another more authentically. Overall, more than 95 percent of attendees responded with a highly favorable opinion of the talks. We cannot recommend Mark enough for your team.” — Ashley Hickson, Mutual of Omaha
*Via Great Place to Work.
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The Buoyant Leader: the irreplaceable connection to healthy employee cultures.
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This data-driven, case-study-rich, and fully interactive conversation will teach you how to be a healthy and confident leader, so you can be a trusted advisor to colleagues and clients and, most importantly, live healthy lives with loved ones.
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Understand how leaders can prioritize their well-being.
Demonstrate leadership in designing a strategic communication approach to employee culture and well-being.
Secure buy-in from other leaders on the business impact of a strategic employee culture and well-being initiative.
This session is easily adaptable for leadership and staff retreats, trainings, and development opportunities.
The future of leading healthy, engaged employees: Your Culture of Well-being
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The executive you respect and trust. The peer you count on for accountability. The up-and-coming leaders you manage. It’s this small group that impacts our confidence and productivity, our mental health, our physical health, and other aspects of our well-being.
This highly interactive and engaging signature talk delivers the five steps to creating a Culture of Well-being within your organization. These steps have helped shape healthy team cultures around the world.
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The so what of healthy employees.
Localizing “culture.”
Redefine employee well-being.
The importance of a strategic communication campaign in creating a Culture of Well-being.
The CHASE Model: We’ll share the five actionable steps to help create a Culture of Well-being within your organization.
This session is easily adaptable for leadership retreats or trainings.
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Recent data suggests that 76 percent of people who experienced empathy from their leaders reported they were engaged, a critical factor in designing effective employee communications strategies.
This engaging and interactive conversation will use a series of leadership examples from “Ted Lasso” – a masterclass in showing how to build trust with employees, earn respect from executives, and design a winning culture - empower leaders to use empathy to inspire their employees, teams, and executives to BELIEVE in an idea.
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What is empathy, specifically cognitive empathy, and why is it important for relationships?
How to use empathy to manage up, down, and across their organization effectively.
Embrace the positive impact of bringing outside and unique perspectives into your organization.
Design a strategy to inspire employees to believe and buy into an idea.
Leading With Empathy: Lessons from “Ted Lasso”
This session is easily adaptable for leadership and staff retreats, trainings, and development opportunities.
Benefits
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“If your agency is experiencing a challenge with turnover, managing a hybrid culture or employee engagement, or are just ready to commit to an organizational well-being strategy, talk to Mark.”
— Rebecca Martin, EVP, Culture & Talent, Beehive Strategic Communication
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“Mark’s superpower is empathy and that is the through line for all his passionate work. This empathy, driven by his own backstory, sustains his energy to keep enhancing his business to meet the ever-changing needs of his clients.”
— Sara Jackson, Park National Bank
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“Mark is an incredibly dynamic speaker who is also relatable, knowledgeable, and entertaining. His upbeat, jovial attitude combined with his professional philosophy on leadership, makes him a force for affecting positive change in the workplace.”
— Taylor Strunk, CWPC
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"Mark is an incredible resource for professionals working to balance their lives, careers, and health. We all need to be reminded that it’s not just ok, but critical, to put ourselves first so that we can show up most effectively for everyone else around us. Thanks, Mark, for being such a source of motivation and inspiration for us all!”
— Ann Smith, Founder, A.wordsmith
Features
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We use Mentimeter and Talkadot software to ensure interactivity, inclusiveness, and feedback are delivered.
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No off-the-shelf materials here! We develop your session tailored to the specific challenges you’re facing.
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We’ve hosted sessions virtually and in-person, attendance of five to 1,000+, from one-hour to multi-day.
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We’ll spend time before your event to ensure we’re aligned on goals, expectations, and success factors.
We’ll also schedule time after the event to discuss feedback and immediate next steps.
Beyond the Main Stage
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Ready your workforce on human skills, communication, and leadership.
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Facilitated retreats to improve leadership effectiveness and team cohesion.
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Book Mark to deliver a bespoke leadership and well-being program for your team.
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Invest in your employees’ skills and career growth.
Work With Mark Mohammadpour.
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1. https://www2.deloitte.com/us/en/insights/industry/financial-services/financial-services-industry-outlooks/banking-industry-outlook.html
2. https://www.lemonedge.com/news/burnout-mounts-as-a-third-of-banking-and-financial-services-plan-to-leave-the-industry-due-to-high-pressure