August - Challenging Success

  • We need to explore the intersection where humans and technology collide - I want to cure paralysis in my lifetime.

    Mark Pollock, Adventurer.

  • From the frame of my life as a competitior: Success is a necessary and required output of the effort that you put in.

    Mark Pollock, August, You CAN ask that!

  • We are complex adaptive systems and context and sense making is everything.

    Conversationalist, July, You CAN ask that!

  • I don't think there's anything more valuable than what we're doing right now.

    Suzanne Waldron, Behaviour Change Expert.

Challenging Success - Competitor or Collaborator?

Introducing Mark Pollock.

Unbroken by blindness in 1998, Mark became an adventure athlete competing in ultra-endurance races across deserts, mountains, and the polar ice caps, making him the first blind person to race to the South Pole.

He also won silver and bronze medals for rowing at the Commonwealth Games and set up an international motivational speaking business.

In 2010, a fall from a second story window nearly killed him. Mark broke his back and the damage to his spinal cord left him paralysed.

Now he is on a new expedition, this time exploring the intersection where humans and technology collide, in an effort to cure paralysis in our lifetime.

Chairman of Collaborative Cures and founder of the global running series Run in the Dark, Mark was selected by the World Economic Forum as a Young Global Leader where he served on the Global Futures Council on Human Enhancement and the Advisory Board of Cybathlon. He is on the Board of the Christopher and Dana Reeve Foundation (USA), and is a Wings for Life Ambassador (Europe).

Everything Mark Pollock does is about inspiring leaders and their teams to build resilience and collaborate with others so that they can achieve more than they thought possible.

 He speaks with Suzanne on Tuesday the 16th of August on the topic of ' Challenging Success: competitor or collaborator?'.

“I love the concept that hope is a verb. It involves action.”
— August ATTENDEE

Mark Pollock, endurance athlete and explorer. Blind and paralysed, is now on a mission to cure paralysis in our lifetime. Suzanne Waldron, behavioural interviewer interviews Mark about challenging success as part of her You CAN ask that! series that is building a conversation community