All Mark Pollock Blogs
Using Adversity, Struggle & Pain To Achieve The Impossible
Mark Pollock · EP 041 Mark Pollock – Flow Research Collective Podcast Flow Research Collective Radio with Rian Doris: Mark discusses using adversity, struggle and pain to inform his approach to achieving the impossible in this peak performance podcast. As Mark says: “Realists manage to run acceptance and hope in parallel.” You can hear the […]
BBC Talkback
Mark speaks about the music that has influenced him most in his life. Mark Pollock Media · Mark Pollock on BBC Talkback
My friend and fellow adventurer, Piers White
We had rented a small yacht in Athens: Piers, myself, our partners and our close friend Nick Wolfe who was skippering. All hands were on deck in the hot sun as we sailed towards the harbor of a small Greek island, when suddenly through the indigo-blue Aegean sea, a dolphin jumped beside us and began […]
Why weight loss isn’t about willpower
On the morning of the Commonwealth Games Rowing Championships in 2002, I stood on the scales in a paper-thin Lycra vest and shorts. The screen flashed up 68.8 kgs (10 stone 12 pounds), comfortably below the 70 kgs (11 stone) upper limit for the lightweight category that Brendan Smyth and I were racing in that […]
Speaking about psychological safety in Dubai
Mark recently travelled to Dubai to speak to 5,000 HR professionals at the HR Summit and Expo. After his session, he joined Shane Philips, CEO of Philips Group to chat about building resilience, responding to challenges and why psychological safety is so important for high-performing organisations.
Mark Pollock Speaking Highlights
Mark Pollock helps people to build resilience and collaborate with others so that they achieve more than they thought possible. Unbroken by blindness in 1998, Mark became an adventure athlete competing in ultra-endurance races across deserts, mountains, and the polar ice caps including being the first blind person to race to the South Pole. In […]
