Mark Pollock

Everything I do is about inspiring leaders and their teams to build resilience and collaborate with others so that they achieve more than they thought possible.

It sits at the top of a clarity stack that starts with my why statement, feeds into our 4-year business strategy, annual objectives, quarterly goals, weekly priorities, and daily actions.

Gaining clarity provides a filter for ruling projects in and out, it reduces cognitive load and frees us to perform at our best.

As an adventure athlete I took part in endurance races like six Marathons in a week in the Gobi Desert, the Dead Sea Ultra Marathon, Zurich Ironman and a 43-day expedition race to the South Pole.

The physical challenge was obvious, but it turned out that the psychological challenge was equally as tough.

Of course, we had trained hard to prepare our bodies, but balancing the mental highs and lows became as important as having the physical capacity to put one foot in front of the other.

As Inge Solheim, my Norwegian South Pole team-mate, shared with me during a particularly tough day on the ice in Antarctica: “Stay neutral. Don’t let the highs get too high and don’t let the lows get too low.”

Explorers recognize that time in the mind-gym is complimentary to their physical training.