They’re the difference between exceptional and underperforming leaders. Their abundance or absence can elevate or sink an entire organization.
It’s why Coach Mark Robertson, a Newfield Certified Ontological Coach who’s taught and led speaking engagements for leadership teams and individuals for more than 20 years, shapes his speeches more like conversations—built on personal experiences and professional insights, designed to invite even auditorium-sized audiences into intimate connection.
Coach Mark’s speeches cover the critical topics that drive every successful human interaction and collaboration, whether it’s between colleagues, teammates, clients and customers or family members.
TRUST
COORDINATION OF ACTION
LEADERSHIP
CAPACITY MANAGEMENT
EMOTIONS
Mark approaches and engages each topic with a focus on connection and authenticity, inviting new perspectives and inspiring important realizations.
Topics and Options
Speaking engagements with The Ontological Experience typically range from 30 minutes to one hour, but Coach Mark Robertson customizes each conversation to suit each client’s needs and each event’s approach.
Although each speech is different, they’re all intentionally intimate, insightful, and designed to deliver an emotionally rewarding, intellectually enlightening experience.
Design, preparation, and facilitation rates vary. Reach out to get a custom quote for your event.
Effective Conversations: The Key to Powerful Relationships
Every relationship starts, grows, and ends in conversation. But many of us still don’t recognize the powerful role conversations hold in creating healthy or unhealthy relationships—including the one we maintain with ourselves.
This conversation explores:
- Speaking: The 6 language acts in powerful conversations
- Listening: Poor habits and better methods that bring us closer
- Authenticity: What gets in the way of saying what we need to
- Roles: Where we each fit in relationship “dances”
- Trust: What gets in our way of saying what we need to say
Building Trust: The Foundation for all Healthy, Effective Relationships
Successful relationships, whether they’re personal or professional, are built on a foundation of trust. With trust in place, we listen, engage, open up, and show up. When that trust is broken or missing, we dismiss, avoid, retreat, and shut down. To make conversations and relationships grow, we need to understand trust more completely—what it really is, how to build it, when to extend it, and what destroys it.
This conversation explores:
- Awareness: Recognizing trust and distrust when it shows up in relationships
- Impact: How trust and distrust affect our ability to build relationships and get things done
- Action: How to create, maintain, and/or restore trust
- Healing: When and how to rebuild trust when it’s been broken or damaged
Moods and Emotions: The Key Influencer on our Ability to Act
In Western cultures (and particularly in professional environments), we often prioritize logic and rationality in the decision-making process. That leaves out an essential part of what it means to be human: the powerful role emotions play in how we see things, how we make decisions, and when we do or don’t take action.
This conversation explores:
- Differences: Distinguishing emotions from moods, and why it matters
- Moods: 4 Basic Moods and how to shift “bad” into “good”
- Roles: How emotions and moods affect our ability to see, act, and produce results
- Research: What neuroscience says about how we learn emotionally
- Action: Ways to shape our and others’ moods so they’re more productive
- Impact: What happens if and when we ignore our emotions
Custom Engagements
Coach Mark Robertson regularly leads speaking engagements and educational workshops across the United States, on topics ranging from powerful leadership and management to creating cultures of commitment and accountability.
If the speaking engagements outlined here aren’t a fit, Mark can design a custom engagement that helps your event attendees see their connections, careers, relationships, and themselves in an entirely new way.
Reach out to learn more.
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