Mark McKeon

Biography

Mark McKeon is one of Australia’s leading experts on leadership, efficiency, productivity, work life balance and team cohesion. His latest book "Go Zone" reinforces all these factors.

Mark spent 16 years as the high performance coach at Collingwood, with the team also outsourcing their entire fitness and training function to Mark’s team. He was also Club Runner for more than 250 games, an AFL record, and worked with Victoria’s State of Origin Team on five occasions.

Mark previously played football in the VFL with the Melbourne team, and represented Victoria in the VFA. He has always maintained his fitness, and at age 41 was a part of the inaugural AFL Triathlon as part of the winning team. They were competing against current players from all teams.

He has regular columns in The Age and Panorama, amongst others.

His aim is to share a holistic approach to life and work, based on the belief that all leadership starts with self-leadership. Before anyone can have an impact on others, they need to have their own game in order. Mark aims to offer audiences a pathway to change, making them happier and more productive.

Mark presents keynotes and tailored sessions, and along with his team, conducts workshops and conference programs in lifestyle, team building and leadership. Mark consistently rates as, ‘exceedingly funny with a great message’ or ‘best conference speaker’. He spends time with delegates, and can MC or facilitate as well as present keynotes and workshops.

Mark has an insightful and engaging style and his uplifting presentations have been a conference highlight with lasting impacts for many years.

Mark is a very engaging, humorous and informative speaker who always customises his presentation to the clients brief.

Topics

• The Go Zone
  • Embrace peak performance.  Do the important things without excuse or distraction (Go Zone).  Develop a habit to get more of the important things done in your most effective manner, while enjoying periods of lower intensity (Slow Zones) and total recovery (No Zones).  Practical techniques to boost productivity, personal effectiveness and resilience. Ideal for anyone interested in sustainable peak performance.
• Peak Performance, High Performance Teams
  • Culture is 8 times more powerful than strategy!  The magic happens when people make discretionary effort, voluntary effort.   High performing teams maximise the contributions from Volunteers, Survivors, Critics and Prisoners.  Learn how to use the twin pillars of truly effective leadership, Challenge and Recognition to transform your group into a truly high performance team, and have a lot of fun in the process.
• Embracing Change
  • People benefit most from change when they embrace it.  Learn to move past Denial (the Titanic can’t sink) and Resistance (It’s not fair, I’m staying on board) Learn how to begin a change journey with Adjustment (better check for lifeboats just in case) and Acceptance (better here in the lifeboat than back on the sinking ship).  This session is designed to give people a lift, to see change as a positive and an opportunity, rather than an additional burden.

Testimonials

Mark was very energetic and on point with our theme.
Criterion Industries

Adapted content to our brief and made if relevant to the context – High energy and impact.
Melbourne Water

Mark was great. Very professional and easy to deal with from a client perspective. Our delegates found this session particular relevant and applicable to their lives and we received great feedback.
Delegate comments: “I started re-jigging my work/life balance some months ago but still feel a little quality about taking the time but Mark's presentation has reinforced my determination to ramp it up even more.” “Excellent presentation.”
REIQ

Clear ,concise, applicable to the brief and most of all entertaining.
Southern Rural Water

Mark was a very engaging and entertaining speaker who was able to provide constructive advice on prioritising work responsibilities to safeguard your personal wellbeing. 
Wagga Wagga Primary Principals' Council

Excellent - Achieved all the objectives; informative, stimulating and fun.
Morgan & Banks.
 
Our presence was clearly enhanced by our association with your presentation, which was clearly the stand out. We owe you one.
RocVale
 
The feedback was been one of overwhelming success.  The attendance at each of your sessions was the highest seen for many, many years.
VILA
 
Excellent...A very stimulating and enjoyable morning.
Australian Consulting Partners
 
Excellent...With very little liaison the results were OUTSTANDING.
SmithKline Beecham Pharmaceutical’s
 
Excellent. Energy-Excellent, Facilitation-Excellent, Quality of Passion-Excellent.
Ten Victoria
 
A great exercise that got senior managers/directors that don’t normally communicate to communicate and co-operate.
Jones Lang Wootton
 
Mark obviously knew his “Stuff” and was readily accepted by all in our group.
Commonwealth Bank of Australia
 
Mark developed a great rapport with everyone. His presentation was Inventive and Challenging!!
Invetech Operations Pty Ltd
 
Marks Enthusiasm and organised approach to the day assisted greatly in successful outcomes
Australian Wheat Board
 
Mark provided an excellent mix of “hands - on” activity and group discussion to facilitate an excellent team goal setting session.
CSR Ltd Distilleries Group
 
His message was easily understood, very well received and delivered with humour. Everyone took something home from his presentation. FORTRESS 2000 was a great success!!!
Kenworth Trucks
 
Mark involved everyone. The Business activities were great and extremely appropriate
Deloitte Touch Tohmatsu

Excellent, Mark and the team were fantastic.  We have had positive feedback around Mark's energy and the speech (including DISC activity). It was something completely different to what we have done in the past and was very successful in providing the right messages whilst having a good laugh.
Ernst & Young

The inclusion of Mark as our main platform speaker proved a huge success with our delegates. His message and delivery were very well received and greatly enjoyed by all.
RetireInvest

You have been an inspiration to many and thank you for delivering a sensational presentation.
Telstra

You made an outstanding contribution to Caliber Phuket and I have had  excellent feedback from all delegates.
People Bank

It was fantastic. The hour passed before I knew it. I could have listened to Mark all night.
Petard Training

Mark was funny, cheeky and entertaining. He had a great message for the audience to take away and everyone could relate to him.
IBM

I think we are still buzzing about your session Mark! The concept of the zones has appealed to all of those Gentrackers in attendance yesterday – and the feedback from customers has been glowing. Your message and communication style added significant value to the User Group – and I believe you may have more business coming your way from what our customers had to say afterwards.
Gentrack

Mark was received very well by the audience, his insightful presentation gave them lots to consider. Many participants commented that they had a lot to take back to their workplaces and implement.
The Association for Payroll Specialists

Mark is clearly the best keynote speaker we have ever had.
Hella

The feedback has been amazing!  People are raving about their Go Zones and I will be implementing Go, Slow and No Zones throughout my entire life
Marshall White Real Estate

Best session of the entire conference.  I could have listened to Mark for hours.
Johnson and Johnson Medical

Mark has now spoken at our event for 7 consecutive years and still gets the best feedback on any speaker.
Intimo Lingerie

Mark was an excellent speaker, very motivational and really engaging. All of our staff really enjoyed his presentation and had a lot of laughs. We would definitely have Mark present to us again and we would definitely recommend Mark for any company – he was fantastic. Thanks, Mark.
Hewison Private Wealth