Mark Pattison

Mark Pattison is a former NFL player, now climbing the Seven Summits. He has successfully climbed 6 of the 7 highest peaks and will become the first NFL player to ever do so once accomplished. He recently summited Vinson Massif located in Antarctica which was his 6th summit in Janaury of 2019 with Mt Everest now in his sights slated for April 2020.

Mark has also started several multi-million dollar businesses including one venture backed gaming company which was acquired in 2007. Two years ago Mark launched his social channels to broadcast his journey (NFL2SevenSummits) which his following is now over 350,000 collectively. He also launched a podcast called Finding Your Summit which is all about people overcoming adversity and finding their way in life with over 31v,000 downloads.

Getting off the sidelines and back into the game of life has been a central theme for Mark who had to overcome his own struggles so he developed a e-learning course with the same name (FYS). This is based on what he learned from his hall of fame coaches around reaching the pinnalce in life, sports or business despite the fact that we all go through some adversity to get there.

Mark outlines his SUMMITS strategies and by following his plan, shared through his stories in the mountains and the NFL, your company will be inspired to achieve at a higher level and increase their productivity by working as a team. 

The acronym SUMMITS, represents the roadmap your team needs to reach their summit and the strategies that will make them successful.  They include:

• Seed-the idea.
• Unleash-developing a plan.
• Move-putting your plan into action.
• Measure-creating goals to reach for.
• Improve- always making sure you are improving.
• Traverse- things happen that cause you to alter your course. What do you do?  
• Summit-paying it forward.

Listen to Mark as he intertwines stories from football, business and mountaineering to learn the secrets of succeeding at each level. Truly transformational for your organization. 

"Thank you again for supporting our meeting. It was a huge success and you received great reviews at the end of my meeting during the recap." National Manager for CANON

A percentage of proceeds from all of Mark's speaking engagements goes to his philanthropic work with Waterboys.org.

Accomplishments:

Sports:

• High School: High School All-American (Junior as WR, Senior as QB)
• Inducted Hall of Fame 2005
• College: 2 Rose Bowls, 2 Aloha Bowls, 1 Orange Bowl including winning catch.
• Played under legendary HOF coach Don James
• Inducted Hall of Fame 2016
• NFL: Played 5 years.
• Member of NFLPA
• Drafted in 7th Round by LA Raiders. Also played with NO Saints.
• Climbed: Kilimanjaro, Mt Elbrus, Kozi, Aconcagua, Mt Rainier, Mt Whitney, Kili (2nd time on charity mission), Denali & Vinson Massif

Business:

• Founder/CEO of Venture-backed Front Porch Classics. Toy of the Year 2001 & 2002, 700 retail stores, 7 countries, acquired.
• SVP Digital Media Company of Scout.com
• SVP Digital Media Company Maven.com. Helped take the company public the first 6 months of operation.
• Founder/CEO MarkPattisonNFL.com

Philanthropy:

• Goal:  Raise 1,000,000 to Waterboys for Everest 2020 Climb.  
• Partnered with Chris Long of the Philadelphia Eagles and raised over $46,000 to build water wells for the people of Tanzania through his foundation, Waterboys.org in 2017.
• Raised $10,000 for inner city kids of Los Angeles in 2013 on Kilimanjaro.