Mark Young

Mark is a consultant who revels in finding new connections to achieve creative solutions and breakthrough results in organisations. His clients know him for partnering closely with them to find fresh approaches to complex challenges – challenges which span personal and behavioural change, organisational dynamics and societal challenges – in order to deliver strategies and move individuals towards their potential.

Mark specialises in facilitating teams on strategy and team capacity, creating and delivering high-impact learning programmes in leadership and management, facilitating large, multi-stakeholder change processes, and engaging flexibly with organisations to effect learning, shift cultures and drive performance. He is passionate about bringing his skills in individual and organisational change to the areas of diversity and corporate sustainability.

Mark has led the development of Cadbury Schweppes’ global people management programme and Future Considerations’ leadership development and change management programme for their top 100 leaders in IT. Since starting his consulting career with Future Considerations in 2001, Mark’s other clients have included KPMG Corporate Finance, PwC (UK and Russia), UNIDO, The Carbon Trust, Tesco, the NHS and several government departments and London Boroughs including Richmond-Upon-Thames, Ealing and Greenwich.

Mark was Organisational Development manager at Procter & Gamble in his native South Africa for 5 years. His main achievements there included leading an organisation-wide redesign and culture change programme to build cross-functional working, partnering with the business to implement new business planning processes, and initiating the company’s diversity strategy. After spending much of his time at university as a student leader, Mark began his career running the University of Cape Town’s graduate recruitment programme for two years.

Mark is trained as a coach through the Coaches Training Institute, and is a host of large group processes such as Open Space Technology and World Café. He is qualified in the Leadership Development Framework and the Strength Deployment Inventory®, and regularly attends conferences and courses in leadership and organisational change to stay at the leading edge. He holds a BSc in Mathematics and English and Post Graduate Qualifications in Human Resources Management. His writing has been published in magazines such as New Manager, Strategic Human Resources Review, Ethical Corporation and the Journal of Corporate Citizenship.

Mark loves to travel and connect with friends, and seldom seems to make enough time to learn the saxophone in a way which will stop the neighbours from complaining.