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Mark DeVolder
The Change Specialist | Change & Transformation Thought-Leader | Award-Winning Keynote Speaker
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Dr. Mark DeVolder is a Global Change Management Expert, Transition and Transformation Thought-Leader, and Award-Winning Speaker. Known worldwide as The Change Specialist, Mark helps leaders and teams navigate disruption, adapt to change, and build the agility needed to thrive in uncertain times.
Through his signature Empowered Change™ framework, Mark shows organizations how to turn challenges into opportunities. His high-energy presentations blend research, case studies, and practical tools that help audiences master change. With contagious enthusiasm and clear strategies, he inspires leaders to move from resistance to resilience.
Mark has spoken in more than 25 countries across five continents for leading organizations such as NASA, PepsiCo, McDonald’s, Verizon, GE, Siemens, the Royal Bank of Canada, and Bristol-Myers Squibb. His clients span healthcare, finance, energy, and technology, proving his wide experience in organizational transformation.
As a mediator and consultant, Mark has guided leaders through billion-dollar mergers, major restructures, and cultural transformations. He earned the Top 10 Speaker Award in Change Management and wrote several influential books, including Perpetual Pivot: How the Best Leaders Adapt to Exponential Change, Unity in Diversity Through Synergy, and Get Engaged!
Known for his humour, clarity, and interactive approach, Dr. Mark DeVolder delivers experiences that leave audiences energized and ready to act. He helps leaders understand change, overcome fear, and develop the confidence to lead through it with purpose.
Mark's booking fee range is $10,000 - $15,000
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Future Proof: Navigating Change With Confidence And Excitement 
Imagine a new way to change: unhurried, composed, and confident instead of the usual frenzy, chaos, and uncertainty. The Empowered Change strategy presented in this high-impact keynote equips participants to transform the pace of change and drive sustainable success by providing a clear roadmap for navigating the stages of change.
This program is perfect for leaders and teams in the midst of constant change who are:
Going through organizational growth, such as mergers and acquisitions, leadership changes, restructuring, and digital transformation
Navigating their team members’ reactions to the volatility, complexity, and ambiguity in their work and life (like frustration, anxiety, confusion, and fear)
Feeling unprepared for their evolving roles and responsibilities or unable to change at the rate and pace needed to keep up with ever-increasing changes
After this intensely practical session, the audience will leave with:
A Journey-map framework for understanding any change they experience
A personal plan for confidently navigating the transitions between each stage of change
The skills and mindset for boldly mobilizing through disruptive change to accomplish their objectives
This program is perfect for leaders and teams in the midst of constant change who are:
Going through organizational growth, such as mergers and acquisitions, leadership changes, restructuring, and digital transformation
Navigating their team members’ reactions to the volatility, complexity, and ambiguity in their work and life (like frustration, anxiety, confusion, and fear)
Feeling unprepared for their evolving roles and responsibilities or unable to change at the rate and pace needed to keep up with ever-increasing changes
After this intensely practical session, the audience will leave with:
A Journey-map framework for understanding any change they experience
A personal plan for confidently navigating the transitions between each stage of change
The skills and mindset for boldly mobilizing through disruptive change to accomplish their objectives
Harness the Hurricane
Change is constant, unpredictable and accelerating. Extreme change can – much like a hurricane – leave you dizzy, dazed and disoriented, as though the earth is moving under your feet. Even if you survive the storm, you know more is coming. Change expert Dr. Mark DeVolder throws a lifeline to you and your team with tools and strategies he’s developed to clear away the fog. During Mark’s high-octane presentation, you will learn how to:
• overcome change-paralysis and get mobilized through transitions
• develop change-ready thinking and behaviours
• overcome decision-quicksand, making smart-decisions, faster
• repeat the cycle of success with the unstoppable power of resilience
• overcome change-paralysis and get mobilized through transitions
• develop change-ready thinking and behaviours
• overcome decision-quicksand, making smart-decisions, faster
• repeat the cycle of success with the unstoppable power of resilience
On Fire! Energized Together
We live in a VUCA world: volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous. It’s not surprising that leaders who survive, thrive and deliver in business today have one trait in common; they are resilient. But resilience is not just for a few; it can be learned. Mark shares how to rewire your brain and increase neuroplasticity to spring through adversity, overcome obstacles and reinvent yourself. He reveals success strategies that enable you to adapt boldly, nimbly and quickly in midst of constant change.
Mark shows leaders how to:
• identify behaviors to increase engagement
• re-ignite employee’s passion for teamwork, communication and innovation
• build a culture of trust, loyalty and appreciation
• accelerate performance and productivity
Recharge your team with Mark DeVolder’s industry-tested program. Get your employees and organization on fire.
Mark shows leaders how to:
• identify behaviors to increase engagement
• re-ignite employee’s passion for teamwork, communication and innovation
• build a culture of trust, loyalty and appreciation
• accelerate performance and productivity
Recharge your team with Mark DeVolder’s industry-tested program. Get your employees and organization on fire.
Unstoppable Resilience: Developing the Mindset of a Champion
Why doesn’t the fastest runner always win the race? Or why doesn’t the smartest person always get the best job? Because it’s not always the ones who “start out the smartest who end up smartest.” (Dweck) It takes more than natural speed, intelligence or ability to be a champion. It takes resilience. But resilience is not just for the elite with an Olympic gold around their neck. Resilience can be learned. Mark shows leaders how to increase their grit, passion and purpose by developing the mindset of a champion. Mark’s best practices will help you cultivate determination, increase resilience and conquer adversity.
You will learn powerful lessons to help you:
• create a winning mindset of self-belief and unlimited potential
• increase innovation and creativity through constructive nonconformity
• expand tenacity and decision-making responsiveness
• develop perseverance, positive attitudes and unstoppable resilience
You will learn powerful lessons to help you:
• create a winning mindset of self-belief and unlimited potential
• increase innovation and creativity through constructive nonconformity
• expand tenacity and decision-making responsiveness
• develop perseverance, positive attitudes and unstoppable resilience
All Together Now! Elevating Teams through Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
In this transformative keynote, we explore the remarkable potential of diverse teams. Rather than being hindered by differences, these teams achieve seemingly paradoxical success by embracing them. When teams rally around a unity of purpose while celebrating individual uniqueness, they ignite a powerful synergy that fosters belonging and empowerment through the whole team; the many become one. Through inclusion, equity, and diversity, those who were once excluded or marginalized can now contribute their distinct skills, abilities, and perspectives. The result? Innovation flourishes, problem-solving abilities soar, and exceptional performance becomes the norm.
Ideal for leaders and teams who are:
• Seeking to empower a diverse and cohesive workforce
• Striving to adopt a transformational mindset to tackle modern-day challenges
• Teams facing engagement, collaboration, or well-being hurdles
Key Takeaways:
• Enhanced awareness and appreciation of both unique qualities and shared values among team members
• Empower team transformation by championing diversity, equity, and inclusion through inclusive leadership
• Practical frameworks for collaboratively navigating complex problems and generating creative solutions
• Join us on this journey as we explore how embracing diversity, equity, and inclusion can propel your team toward unparalleled success and collective achievement.
Ideal for leaders and teams who are:
• Seeking to empower a diverse and cohesive workforce
• Striving to adopt a transformational mindset to tackle modern-day challenges
• Teams facing engagement, collaboration, or well-being hurdles
Key Takeaways:
• Enhanced awareness and appreciation of both unique qualities and shared values among team members
• Empower team transformation by championing diversity, equity, and inclusion through inclusive leadership
• Practical frameworks for collaboratively navigating complex problems and generating creative solutions
• Join us on this journey as we explore how embracing diversity, equity, and inclusion can propel your team toward unparalleled success and collective achievement.
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