Mark Agnew

Mark’s mix of honesty, humour, success, and failure made him an instant selection as a professional speaker, fit for the specific purpose we had in mind. Mark enables true adventure to be relatable to the day to day working life of corporate employees by his engaging storytelling and transparent approach to articulate his trials and tribulations. I’d highly recommend Mark for your event or professional speaking needs, easy to work with, great content and a fast turnaround time. Exactly what we were looking for!

Mark delivered a very engaging and inspiring talk to our sales team. He had the ability to entertain and keep the audience gripped, while at the same time sharing some quite personal and emotional insights. His misadventures were funny and his determination to keep going were heart-warming. His research into the psychology of human behaviour was fascinating, especially when talking about teamwork and affability versus performance.

Cannot recommend highly enough. He was engaging, funny, took the audience on a journey with his talk and linked his story seamlessly to our goal setting framework. We received wonderful feedback from our colleagues on Mark’s talk and he stayed with us afterwards interacting with colleagues, answering questions and joining in with activities.

It was an absolute pleasure to have Mark come and talk to our GP trainee group. As well as him being very responsive to our communications, his talk was inspiring, engaging, entertaining and poignant. We shared in the highs and lows of his experiences as an adventurer, and along the way learnt that even what might be considered a failure has value for learning and personal growth. I would highly recommend Mark.

Mark joined our team-day and gave an energising talk of his rowing experiences. He has a unique and inspiring story, which was really relatable to my team. He has a special way of talking about and learning from failures. The logistics of the talk were simple to organise with Mark, we even met in advance to arrange how his story could tie into the team-day’s objective. Due to Covid complications the talk switched to be virtual from in-person. This change in plan was simple to rearrange with Mark, and the effect of Mark's talk in energising the group was still 100% effective.

Mark delivered an excellent and captivating keynote webinar on this topic at the recent Fettes College careers day for students from Fettes and for in excess of five hundred senior five and six students from Edinburgh high schools. Mark's captivating session was a strong start to a morning designed to provide young people at this critical stage with insights to effectively explore and develop their Higher Education options. We would recommend him as a speaker.