Mark Tewksbury

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The Great Traits of Champions

The Achiever Traits
Mark discusses the fundamentals for being a champion in your own life.

The Leader Traits
In this practical, engaging presentation, Mark outlines the fundamentals for creating champion organizations and teams.

The Legacy Traits
Mark inspires audiences to champion a meaningful way of life.

Summary Profile

Mark Tewksbury knows what it means to be a Champion. He won gold, silver and bronze medals from Olympic competitions in 1988 and 1992.   Mark’s swimming career highlights include 21 national titles, seven world records, and a cover appearance on TIME Magazine.   For his outstanding athletic achievements, Mark was named Canadian Athlete of the Year, and was inducted into the Canadian Olympic Hall of Fame, the Canadian Sports Hall of Fame and the prestigious International Swimming Hall of Fame. 

As a speaker, Mark has enjoyed a remarkable twenty year career that is still growing.  What began as speaking to school children has grown to see Mark recently host the Dalai Lama's evening in Canada, speak to Goldman Sachs in Hong Kong, share his experiences with retiring athletes from the Beijing Olympics, and present to Hewlitt Packard in Calfornia.  Mark's illustious communication career has included hosting television shows, incuding Discovery Channel's popular How It's Made, author three books, and appear live at major events all over the world.  Mark recently returned home from his analyst role with CBC's Prime Time 2008 Olympic team.   

In 2008, Mark founded Great Traits Inc. with Olympic coach, Debbie Muir. Together, they co-wrote the book "The Great Traits of Champions: Fundamentals for Achievers, Leaders and Legacy leavers.   The book identifies the core ideas necessary to build upon to reach your full potential.  It is a guide to being a Champion in life and provides the fundamental skills to consistently perform at the highest level.  

The Great Traits keynotes, training programs, workshops and products focus on these fundamental traits of champions, from an achievement, leadership, and legacy perspective.  

  “Mark was amazing.  He was wonderful to work with before the conference, especially when he took the time to speak with our president to get an understanding of our business and conference objectives.  And the call wasn't just a formality, he really listened and made well-thought-out references throughout his presentation.  Everyone at the gala truly enjoyed his speech and are still talking about it. ” Frito Lay

I wanted to drop you a quick not to thank you again for delivering big time! You had a profound impact on our employees and channel partners this week, and it was quite commom through the week ( including last night’s awards dinner and this morning’s breakfast) to hear people comment on how your message moved them and the action they will take as a result.   Very cool stuff Mark.  FRANK, HP 

Mark Tewksbury is an extraordinary person.  His life experiences and wonderful presentation skills are enough to keep an audience enthralled for hours.  But, Mark goes further.  Our delegates were absolutely blown away by the care and detail Mark took to learn about our industry and weave its challenges, issues and achievements into his Great Traits.  We took away so many useful lessons.  As the meeting planner, I must say what a pleasure it was working with Mark to customize the presentation for us.  He is an immediate friend whose graciousness will always be remembered by our group.  It will be a challenge to top him next year!  Cdn Parking Association