Mark Dobson, The man behind the talent

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What clients say

Known impact

37%

Corporate increased ROI on each employee by 37%

2 places

Corporate moved up NPS ranking by 2 places

61%

Mortgage broker: 61% growth in 8 months. No additional resources.

$38m

Mortgage broking firm: $38m above an ambitious target. Twice.

"Mark understands the broker space and elite performance. And he is entertaining. This combination really got through to people, with content my audience could use."
CBA Third Party Banking
"Mark has been amazing support in driving our journey towards High Performance and it has been rewarding to partner over several years now. His ability to evolve and adapt as our team has grown is fabulous and he has delivered commercial outcome through every single conference and coaching opportunity we have shared. If you are after lasting impact towards High Performance rather than the "usual motivational one off sugar high" - he is the best choice out there!"
Nestlé Australia
"In a period of ambitious targets and pressure to match, Mark quickly understood our business and brought practical innovation. His influence was not a one-off hit of inspiration, it was about systems and measures which lived on even when he wasn't there."
GM, FleetPartners
"Great session, well executed and aligned and very energising for our team for our two days of strategy sessions."
MaxCap Group Pty Ltd

Advisor to over 100 of the world's best in business and sport

100+

elite talents advised across sport, business and entertainment

7

world records broken by athletes under his guidance

2,000+

keynotes

TEDx

speaker and 2x best-selling author

  • Energy.
  • Strategy.
  • Practical.
  • Uplifting.
  • Solutions.

Can he handle our room?

Big audiences

2,000+ keynotes. Thousands of workshops in diverse environments, with the ability to react, pivot, go slow or go fast depending on the energy and capability in the room.

Executives and CEOs

Storytelling that grips even the most senior executive. No excuses. No BS. Right to the heart of what action will deliver on the vision.

Your whole company

Kind candour, with a focus on joy and playfulness. More energy means better learning.

A pro, every time

Many clients have kept Mark on for 3 to 10 years. One has had him back at their annual conference four years running.

  • Memorable, concise, practical principles that work. Sticky language lasts and travels across the organisation.
  • He integrates your business language and frameworks into his keynotes.

Keynotes

Teams

The 4 Behaviours of an Elite Team

How to create and be an Elite Team

When you want more synergy in your organisation, this will deliver the gold you are looking for.

Learn how to:

  • The 3 traits which all elite teams are built on.
  • 4 low effort behaviours which create elite teams fast.
  • How to collaborate with trust.
  • Tools for leading accountability.

These strategies are so simple and effective you will see them alive in your organisation for years.

Teams

A Proven Path to Uncommon Success

With fantastic footage and examples from his time in elite environments, Mark explains the steps and thinking applied to creating a world-class outcome.

Sales

High performance sales skills

Learn how to:

  • Use the 4 habits of elite salespeople.
  • Operate an elite sales diary.
  • Open and close deals in a predictable way.
  • Refine value propositions down to 3 words.
  • Build off the back of a bad year.

Leadership

Leading People to High Performance

  • Setting new standards
  • Defining success and failure
  • Leading accountability
  • Difficult conversations
  • How to get the highest return on any leadership effort

Leadership

Positivity, performance and leadership in tough climates

Learn how to:

  • Mentally and practically respond to uncertainty.
  • Remain invested and actively aligned in the vision.
  • Establish a resilient culture which will deliver on the vision.
  • Coach individuals to outcomes.

Leadership

How to have candid conversations which foster performance

Learn how to:

  • Assess when being candid is appropriate.
  • Structure a candid conversation.
  • Put tools in place so being candid becomes easy and normal.
  • Build synergy in critical relationships.
  • Coach individuals to outcomes.
  • Embrace accountability.

Leadership

Performance Mindset for Success

The elegant mindset tools Mark has trained thousands of talents in, on their way to delivering peak ability.

Change

AI and performance in the face of change

Gain confidence as you understand:

  • What AI is and is not
  • How to be ready as a team for AI
  • How to manage the cultural change arising from implementing AI
  • How to decide on big questions
  • How to prepare and get excited about your own future

Productivity

Mastering time: creating a diary which delivers on your vision

Learn:

  • How a Performance Diary is built.
  • A totally new way to assess the tasks you are doing.
  • How to free up your time, so you can free up more time.
  • How to stop requests which gate-crash your diary.
  • How to say “no” without conflict and in a helpful way.
  • Establish synergy with other departments.
  • Gel your diary with the broader organisation.

SME and Franchise

Proven Path to Small Business Success

Dobbo is a multi-year advisor to 20+ businesses with revenue from $1mil to $500mil per year.

  • Leadership
  • Sales
  • Profit
  • People
  • Systems

Customised

A keynote customised for your business

Mark tailors each keynote to the audience, the business challenge and what needs to happen next.

Mark Dobson

About Mark

Mark is known for his no-BS candour, cheeky humour, and storytelling that grips even the most senior executive. His keynotes don't just inspire, they provide a roadmap for action.

Drawing from the world of elite sport and the battlefield of business, Mark shows audiences how to build performance cultures which actually work, and teams that can handle the pressure of greatness.

Some speakers bring a great story. Dobbo brings an expert skill set your people need to learn.

"My definition of high performance is No Wasted Effort."

Dobbo

Dobbo's clients have

  • Won 56 medals and created a $3 billion company

    Grant Hackett

  • Memorised the Yellow Pages

    Tansel Ali

  • Set world records

    Marieke D'Cruz

  • Closed billion dollar deals

    Ananda Subbiah

  • Invented impossible tricks

    Colby James West

  • Taken local brands global

    Matt Wilkinson

  • Become international artists

    Dom Guocji

So, what do you want to do?

45 minute keynote, or 3 years of transformation

Typical motivational speaker

  1. On the day

    Inspires me

Dobbo

  1. On the day

    Inspires me

  2. Back at the office

    Changes my thinking

  3. Next quarter

    Changes my behaviour

  4. Full year

    I lead others to change

What leaders say

"Mark shrinks what is insurmountable into the activities that really matter. He narrows your focus."
Grant Hackett, OAM
"Dobbo has presented 2-3 days at our annual conference for four years. He has taken us on an incredible transformational journey to high performance. We bring him back as he is always new, always relevant, and we see the results in the business."
Exec. division of multinational, 150 staff
"Mark has a clear understanding of the mindset that is required in order to gain the edge needed for optimal performance."
Ian Pope, Australian Olympic swimming coach
"Mark has been instrumental in my development as a leader and assisting me to navigate through the many challenges faced in my varied roles."
Jason Cunningham, Partner at The Practice
"More than a thousand have climbed Everest, very few can do what Mark Dobson does. He is a master of innovation."
Matt Targett, Olympic medallist

Trusted by

  • Nestlé
  • Salesforce
  • Westpac
  • Commonwealth Bank
  • NAB
  • Telstra
  • Woolworths
  • Canon
  • Bayer
  • Novartis
  • REA Group
  • AIG
  • Chubb
  • Stryker
  • Harcourts
  • Metcash
  • Energy Australia
  • Bega
  • Specialized
  • Parliament of Victoria

Many have kept Mark on for 3 to 10 years.

The Performance Conference book cover

The Performance Conference

Closing the gap between strategy and execution

Design a conference that actually moves the commercial needle.

You're already spending $200k to $1m bringing everyone together. What does the business need these people to do differently when they go back to work?

Five missed opportunities

  1. 1A $200k to $1m budget with no defined commercial outcome
  2. 290% of the time is spent listening and reading
  3. 3Too heavily biased towards stories with philosophies
  4. 4People walk away the same, but tired
  5. 5The conference ends when the conference ends

Stuff Dobbo says

  • Show me your diary and I will tell you your future.
  • How you do anything is how you do everything.
  • The right strategy brings the impossible within reach.
  • Value small incremental improvements that compound.