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A Keynote that inspires your team.

Mark Wales has led combat missions with 30 elite soldiers in Afghanistan, built strategy at McKinsey & Company, and won Australian Survivor. He has spent his career operating at the edge of what humans can do under pressure and distilling what he learned into frameworks that work in any environment.

When Mark speaks, your leaders don’t just feel inspired. They leave with tools they can use the next day.

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Mission Ready, wherever your team is.

Mark delivers high-impact virtual sessions from his professional studio, bringing battlefield-tested leadership lessons to teams around the world.

From global conferences to remote leadership programmes, each session is designed to engage, challenge and equip your team with practical tools they can put into action immediately.

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Mark Wales

Former SAS Troop Commander. Wharton MBA. McKinsey consultant. Australian Survivor winner. Bestselling author.

Mark has spent his career at the intersection of elite performance and real-world leadership. He led a troop of 30 SAS soldiers through four deployments to Afghanistan, made strategic decisions at McKinsey, and competed in some of the most physically and mentally brutal environments on earth.

He doesn’t speak about leadership in theory. He speaks from experience, translating those lessons into practical frameworks your leaders can apply immediately. As the bestselling author of Survivor, Outrider, and Mission Ready, Mark continues to share these principles with individuals and organisations around the world.

Based in Sydney, Mark works with teams across Australia and internationally.

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AUSTRALIAN ARMY

6 YRS

SAS

6 YRS

SAS

Wharton MBA

UPenn

McKinsey

CONSULTANT

Survivor

AUSTRALIAN WINNER

Actor

FURIOSA: A MAD MAX SAGA

Founder

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Mission Ready —
Leading Under Pressure

The leadership operating system from the world’s best small teams

Built around the four phases of the Mission Ready programme — develop the leader, build the mission, lead the team, execute under pressure. Your leaders will leave with a clear framework for high-performance leadership they can implement immediately.

BEST FOR:
+ Leadership conferences
+ Senior leadership offsites
+ New manager inductions

Decisions Under Fire

How elite teams make better decisions faster — and what your organisation can learn from them

How do you make good decisions when you have incomplete information, limited time, and high stakes? Drawing on Special Forces doctrine and McKinsey methodology, this keynote gives your leaders a practical decision-making framework for the real world.

BEST FOR
+ Strategy days
+ Executive teams
+ Risk and operations leadership groups

The High-Performance Team

Building the culture, communication, and accountability systems that drive elite results

What separates a group of talented people from a team that performs under pressure? Drawing on SAS team dynamics and real-world leadership research, this keynote gives practical answers — and a system to implement them.

BEST FOR
+ Team leadership events
+ HR and L&D conferences
+ Culture transformation programmes