Mark Oliver
M.Eng MA (Cantab) FCIPD FAHRI ILPF
Summary:
Mark has extensive experience in consulting; he has trained and coached in Fortune 500 companies such as Cisco and Oracle, at top universities such as Oxford University and ETH Zurich (rated as no. 1 and no. 11 universities respectively in the world*), as well as trained military units in various esoteric fields such as jungle warfare and arrest and restraint. He holds two Master’s degrees from Cambridge University.
Details:
Mark began his career as a combat and chemical engineer, but quickly started to get a greater interest in human performance and leadership in particular. He served for 11 years in both UK’s 5 Airborne (Parachute) Brigade, where he was a Jungle Warfare instructor, Helicopter Abseil dispatcher, and Demolitions Officer, and then the UK's Gurkha Brigade, before moving into the business world over 30 years ago.
He specialises in enabling organisations and leaders to gain significantly greater engagement from their staff in a way that directly increases the 4P’s of purpose, productivity, performance and profit. He does this through leadership and high-performance team training in Motivational Leadership and boosting leaders’ four fundamental intelligences (which means first extinguishing the “IQ Myth”). These courses focus on leadership, self-leadership and self-awareness in both professional and personal life.
He has run leadership development and assessment courses since 1986 in twenty countries and on 6 of the 7 continents, in both military and commercial environments. Countries include: Australia, New Zealand, USA, UK, Switzerland, Germany, China, Hong Kong, Singapore, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Vietnam, South Africa, Dubai, Jordan, Brunei, Belize, South Korea, the Falkland Islands and Fujairah UAE, involving participants from over 60 different countries around the world.
Mark set up the international consultancy, MarkTwo Consulting, in 2002 to provide advanced leadership development and assessment programs, applying the best international organisational psychometric instruments. Mark is certified in twenty of the world’s best ones, and realised an additional instrument was needed that helped companies motivate and engage their managers and workforce. Mark researched the area and found new ways of explaining pragmatically the underlying causes of the lack of engagement and productivity. Using those findings, he developed MarkTwo Consulting's highly innovative and holistic Universal Hierarchy of Motivation (UHM) leadership development and coaching instrument.
The UHM gives leaders new insights on human intelligence and helps people to enhance their self-awareness and self-leadership in all areas. Recent advances in neuroscience have vindicated the UHM theory and have added weight to its conclusions.
His drive for guiding people to be the best leaders they can be at home and work, combined with his deep knowledge and unique take on "authentic" leadership as a driver of business performance, has made MarkTwo's courses highly sought after in Asia-Pacific.
Mark speaks at high profile events, and has been interviewed on Australian national TV, and prime time media on matters to do with capability, selection, recruitment and assessment. (Watch his appearance at one of Australia's prime time shows: The Myth of IQ )
Mark is a graduate of the University of Cambridge, the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst and the Royal School of Military Engineering. He is trained in a form of Jungian psychology as well as internationally credentialled in 20 of the World's best organizational psychology instruments for assessment, development and coaching/ mentoring. He is also a Chartered Fellow of the Institute of Personnel and Development, Life Fellow of the Australian Institute of Professional Facilitators, Fellow of the Australian Human Resources Institute, Graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors and member of the International Coaching Federation.
Mark has published three books: MOTIVATIONAL LEADERSHIP - which debunks 10 common myths on leadership (and several illusions about intelligence); THE SEVEN MOTIVATIONS OF LIFE - a psychological reference book on the psychology of leadership and life; and A HIMALAYAN TRINITY - about insights gained from experiencing serious illness and trekking across remote areas of the Himalayas.
He is a martial arts blackbelt, has Dual Citizenship (UK/AUS) and lives in Melbourne Australia with his wife, Ruth.
* Times Higher Education World University Rankings
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Mark Oliver has been an inspiration to my team in helping them gain a greater understanding of themselves and how they impact the teams they lead. One of the outcomes has been the 250% increase in employee engagement over the [3 years] Mark has worked with us - David Bough, CIO, National Foods
