About Mark

As an Executive Coach and trusted thought partner, Mark’s North Star is dedicated to empowering executives and startup founders to realize their full potential as successful, impactful, and enlightened leaders.  Drawing on his diverse, global executive leadership experiences from his 22 year Apple career journey, Mark inspires teams to deliver breakthrough results.  As a coach, Mark focuses on raising self awareness and emotional intelligence with leaders to help them be their best.

With a grounded, authentic and transparent leadership style, Mark has a proven track record at Apple in developing high performing leaders and teams, activating  step-function growth in several multi-billion $ business segments in Japan, Korea, North America, and globally. Mark held a variety of roles, including Regional CFO for Japan and Korea based in Tokyo, Sales Finance Controller for North America, Japan, and Korea, and Commercial Sales Channel Chief in the US.

Mark holds a B.S. degree in Business from UC Berkeley Haas School of Business and is on the Alumni Advisory Council and is an advisor to the Berkeley Haas Global Management Program. Mark has been trained as a coach at the Co-Active Training Institute. Mark is also a Founding Member of the NxtWaves life coaching Mastermind circle and is a Coach Member of the NxtWaves Coaching Collective.  

Mark is active in giving back to the LGBTQ+ community and is on the board of Openhouse SF, which provides housing and community services to LGBTQ+ seniors. Mark also mentors startup founders at StartOut, which empowers LGBTQ+ entrepreneurs to be successful leaders.

Trusted Advisor

Confidant

EQ Champion

Strong Moral Compass

Global Leader

LGBTQ+ and DEI Advocate

Active Listener

Speaks the Unvarnished Truth

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North Star

Make a Difference and Light the Way

As a proven business leader, strategic thought partner, and confidant, I coach diverse professionals and executives on their journey of realizing their full potential as successful and enlightened leaders.

I help them:

Fearlessly be their true authentic selves
Foster a culture of trust in their teams
Be their best, and inspiring teams to be their best
Build diverse, equitable, and inclusive high performing teams
Deliver breakthrough business results balancing empathy with accountability
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Inspiration

“I tell my students, ‘When you get these jobs that you have been so brilliantly trained for, just remember that your real job is that
if you are free, you need to free somebody else. If you have some power, then your job
is to empower somebody else. This is not
just a grab-bag candy game.’ ”

Toni Morrison

“What counts in life is not the mere fact that we have lived. It is what difference we have made to the lives of others that will determine the significance of the life we lead.”

Nelson Mandela

“What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.”

Jane Goodall

“Leadership is about creating a way for people to contribute to making something extraordinary happen.”

Maya Angelou

“You have to go the way your blood beats. If you don’t live the only life you have, you won’t live some other life, you won’t live any life at all.”

James Baldwin

“Authenticity is your most precious commodity as a leader.”

Marcus Buckingham

“I think empathy is really important, and I think only when our clever brain and our human heart work together in harmony can we achieve our full potential.”

Jane Goodall