Keynote Speaker for the Travel and Tourism Industry: Build Healthy, Resilient Teams

Turn employee well-being into your industry advantage, with keynotes tailored for travel and tourism professionals.

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The Data Behind Healthy Cultures

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.

0% Lower Turnover
Engaged, healthy teams dramatically reduce attrition costs.
— Gallup, 2023
0x Performance
Well-being investments correlate with higher financial performance.
— Deloitte, 2024
0x Attrition Risk
Toxic culture drives employee exits faster than pay gaps.
— MIT Sloan, 2023
0+ Lives Impacted
From keynotes to workshops, the ripple effect is real.
— Across industries since 2019

The Trillion Dollar Question: How to relieve stressed travel and tourism employees while experiencing record growth?

The travel and tourism market is booming, with projections showing by 2029 it will generate $1.11tn in revenue (1). Yet the employees who are driving that growth are becoming increasingly exhausted.

Recent research suggests the “effectiveness of ethical leadership in reducing employee burnout in the hospitality sector.” (2).

Meet Mark Mohammadpour

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Your energy-boosting Chief Well-being Officer.

  • Global speaker, columnist, and advisor on building healthy, confident, and empathetic teams.

  • Accredited PR executive.

  • 150lbs. natural weight-loss journey.

  • Proud husband and puppy parent!

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Keynote Options

The Buoyant Leader: the irreplaceable connection to healthy employee cultures.

  • 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.

    1. Understand how leaders can prioritize their well-being.

    2. Demonstrate leadership in designing a strategic communication approach to employee culture and well-being.

    3. 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

  • 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.

    1. The so what of healthy employees.

    2. Localizing “culture.”

    3. Redefine employee well-being.

    4. The importance of a strategic communication campaign in creating a Culture of Well-being.

    5. 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.

  • 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.

    1. What is empathy, specifically cognitive empathy, and why is it important for relationships?

    2. How to use empathy to manage up, down, and across their organization effectively.

    3. Embrace the positive impact of bringing outside and unique perspectives into your organization.

    4. 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.

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Event Support and Outcomes

  • “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

  • “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

  • “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

  • "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

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Working With Mark

  • We use Mentimeter and Talkadot software to ensure interactivity, inclusiveness, and feedback are delivered.

  • No off-the-shelf materials here! We develop your session tailored to the specific challenges you’re facing.

  • We’ve hosted sessions virtually and in-person, attendance of five to 1,000+, from one-hour to multi-day.

  • 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.

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Beyond the Main Stage

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Sample Keynote Excerpts

Topics are also easily adaptable for leadership and staff retreats and trainings.

The future of leading healthy, engaged employees: Your Culture of Well-being.

The Buoyant Leader: the irreplaceable connection to healthy employee cultures.

Leading With Empathy: Lessons from “Ted Lasso”

Work With Mark Mohammadpour.

We look forward to learning more about you and your company and how we can play a role. Please fill out the form below, and we will respond to your request within 48 hours.

1. https://www.statista.com/outlook/mmo/travel-tourism/worldwide

2. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9597687/