Mark McMordie

Mark is founding CEO of The Compassionate Leader. He works with CEOs and leaders, enabling them to build psychologically safe teams and organisations that collaborate better and innovate faster in our VUCA world.

Mark is an executive coach and mindfulness / compassion teacher. He is a Master Certified Coach with the Association for Professional Executive Coaching and Supervision (APECS) and has an Advanced Diploma in Executive Coaching. He has been facilitating mindfulness and compassion groups since 2009. He trained as a mindfulness teacher at the Centre for Mindfulness Research and Practice at Bangor University and as a compassion teacher with the Compassion Institute. Mark also has a master’s degree in Human Resource Development.

As an executive coach Mark has worked with senior leaders in a range of well-known brands including Microsoft, Vodafone, Rolls-Royce and Lloyds Banking Group. He has also designed and delivered mindfulness and compassionate leadership interventions in the technology, financial services, media, hospitality and retail sectors.

Mark’s executive coaching and leadership development work is deeply informed by his own mindfulness and compassion practice, adult vertical development, and his knowledge of research into the impact of psychological safety, mindfulness, and compassion on flourishing, agile human systems.

Mark is based in London, UK, and is married with two children.