START WHERE YOU ARE
'The gold is here, not there.'
MARK TEIJGELER
SPEAKER, TRAINER, COACH, MENTOR AND AUTHOR
Mark Teijgeler (born 1972) is a former investment banker who has transitioned into a keynote speaker, trainer, facilitator, and thought leader. His expertise centers on mindfulness, meditation, human energy management, resilience, emotional intelligence and presence. Mark is also the co-founder of ExamAthlete, a Dutch app designed to enhance relaxation and performance for students through meditation, journaling, and breathwork.
ABOUT MARK
As a seasoned trainer, facilitator, coach, speaker, author, and entrepreneur with over 19 years of experience in the human capital field, I have a passion for empowering individuals and businesses from the inside out. My expertise areas include mindfulness, meditation, leadership presence, stress management, emotional intelligence, human energy management, peak performance coaching, resilience, and mental health.
As a former investment banker and semi-professional windsurfer, I draw from diverse backgrounds to help clients thrive in their lives. I've led over 1,000 mindfulness and meditation workshops and published with success a Dutch book ABC van Meditatie in 2015. Since 2013, I have been frequently working as a freelance facilitator, trainer, and keynote speaker for the Johnson@Johnson Energy Management for Performance Program (E4P) certified by the Human Performance Institute (HPI) in Europe, Africa, and the Middle East. I've also facilitated this program for multinational corporations such as Mars and other clients.
At the heart of my work lies the art of developing the capacity to be more present in life - to work and live from presence. By cultivating the power of presence, individuals and organizations can make better decisions, increase productivity, maintain mental health, foster innovation, build stronger relationships, and connect with purpose, inner guidance and authenticity. In short, working on your inner game is a necessary foundation for being effective in all other parts of your life.
In March 2024, I launched an innovative new Dutch student performance and relaxation app. The is name Examenatleet (ExamAthlete). The Examenatleet App takes you on a journey to approach exams and tests like an athlete, optimizing your performance stress-free. The deeper mission of Examenatleet is to support the mental health, resilience and well-being of young people age 16-25 and to empower them to thrive instead of survive in life.
CLIENTS
Mark worked all over the world
Amsterdam, Lissabon, Madrid, Rome, Stockholm, London, Blackpool, Leeds, Dublin, Cork, Limerick, Budapest, Boekarest, Belgrado, Warschau, Praag, Beerse, Brussel, Zug, Schaffhausen, Bern, Bazel, Solothurn, Opatija, Beirut, Cairo, Ryaad, Jeddah, Cape-Town, Johannesburg, East-London.
IN THE MEDIA
Mark’s activities and insights have been featured in
CURRENT OFFERINGS
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MINDFULNESS MEDITATION
Whether you are looking to learn about mindfulness for the first time, to improve your current mindfulness practice or you just want to feel more relaxed, balanced, and energetic Mark's mindfulness meditation workshops, webinars, and courses might be interesting for you. Mindfulness is a simple, down to earth and research-proven form of meditation, which can help you to reduce stress, strengthen your brain, improve your focus and concentration skills, unlock your creativity and improve your health, well-being, and quality of life. In mindfulness, the ability is cultivated to be and stay present in the here and now, fully engaged in whatever is happening, free from distraction or judgment.
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TAKE CARE OF YOUR ENERGY
Energy is our most precious resource. Everything we do, from interacting with people to making important decisions, requires energy. A full battery makes it much easier for you to be resilient and relate to the world at your highest capacity. And the other way around. When your energy is low, it becomes much harder to show up in life with your best self and be fully engaged, present, and connected. In other words, performance, resilience, relationships and well-being are grounded in the skillful management of energy. In Mark’s, Energy Management for Resilience and Peak-Performance courses, keynotes and workshops, participants learn to expand and manage their physical, mental, emotional and spiritual energy more effectively. Mark is an HPI certified Energy for Performance in life trainer.
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THE POWER OF PRESENCE
Presence is your most powerful inner state of being and entails much more than just being present or mindful. Presence is an inner state of consciousness and heightened awareness that becomes available to you when you are fully present and allow your awareness to expand, open, and to become unconditional. Living and working from Presence gets to the heart of what we all want in life – to be free, alive, authentic, connected, empowered, creative, and deeply intimate with all realms of life. Moreover, Presence is a key driver of resilience, transformation, and high performance, particularly in today’s environment of mounting pressures, lots of distractions, and an unprecedented pace of change. In The Power of Presence workshops and courses, you will learn how to access presence, how to embody presence, and how to cultivate in yourselves the competence of bringing more presence into your everyday interactions and activities.
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PURPOSE: BUILD YOUR COMPASS
A powerful sense of purpose is the strongest driver of engagement, resilience, and well-being. Moreover, anytime you want to pursue something new, you’re in a changing situation, or when you are wondering what you are doing at a particular job or situation, it is helpful if you can ‘find your way’ by checking in with your sense of purpose, most important values, and internal compass. Moreover, for most of us, work has become extremely consuming. It wants all your creativity, attention, resilience, and dedication. This is only possible if your choices are based on intrinsic motivation. If you are driven from within! In the workshop Purpose: Build your inner compass you will learn to navigate from purpose and receive the tools and experience on how to reflect and contemplate on who you are, how you are doing, what you need, and where you want to go next.
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FIT FOR THE FUTURE OF WORK
Goodbye stability, hello uncertainty! Life has changed. The game has changed. Today, we live and work in a VUCA world. VUCA stands for high volatility (rapidly changing), high uncertainty, high complexity, and high ambiguity. The new world requires a different operating system for both individuals and organizations. In the keynote Fit for the Future of Work, Mark talks about how to navigate your career, business, and life in a VUCA world – where adaptability, learning, collaboration, creativity, resilience, and innovation are critical and where technology is a formidable competitor. Mark will also identify the key challenges for the Future of Work. For many, keeping up with all the changes and disruptions will be a challenge. Reinventing and transforming yourself is not easy. The biggest barrier for most people is not technical or economical, but psychological! Moreover, most 21st century skills don’t come naturally in most business environments. Let’s explore how to adapt to the new reality and to become fit for the future in work.
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OTHER AREAS OF EXPERTISE
Mental health and fitness.
Building resilience.
Corporate well-being
Stressmanagement.
Emotional Intelligence.
Embodiment. Listen with your body.
Relational presence and deep listening.
Peak performance presence.
Developing inner skills.
Business spirituality
Unlock your creativity and transformative potential
Transformational change
Coaching and mentoring
‘The best thing you can do for your future is to be fully present today.’
- Mark Teijgeler
WHAT CLIENTS SAY
‘Thank you very much for yesterday! It completely fulfilled my vision for the session and I've received very good feedback from the team.’ - J&J Global Health Service Ops. Lead. Mtg. Mindfulness Workshop Belgrado 2018.
‘I just wanted to reach out and let you know that your webinar received RAVE reviews from the organization. At least 10 people stopped me and told me how much they enjoyed it and wanted to know if we had a recorded copy.’ - Elementis HSE Lead about the workshop Mindfulness and self regulation, April 2024
'On behalf of the Johnson & Johnson Healthcare Compliance & Privacy Community we would like to thank you for your presentation at the EMEA Regional Meeting in Lisbon. Feedback received showed that your presentation was positively received.' - 2014 Organisational Taskforce.
I liked how he lead the training - made us feel among friends - and enable us to share our story.' - Participant Mars Leadership Experience 2020
-‘The workshop Meditation for Work and Life is evaluated with a 8.9. A truly great result! Training KPN Talentsprogram.
'He's was incredible, great listener. He engaged well with his audience. He is passionate about what he does.' - Feedback Energy for Life Mars 2020.
‘Mark, I just screened quickly through the evaluations and they are extremely positive,..’
- Director Global Health Services Operations Johnson@Johhnson.
‘The feedback from participants of the The Future of Work keynote was very good.’ - HR lead NIBC Bank 2017.
'Mark was excellent, he made the training interesting and made sure that we all participate. He was knowledgeable, experienced and had good communication and inter-personal skills.' -Feeddback J&J Energy for Performance course Beirut 2019.
‘Last week Mark Teijgeler delivered a webinar on mentally fit & healthy for our Element Materials Technology in the Netherlands and Belgium. Thank you Mark Teijgeler for an inspiring session on this topic.’ - Oct 2023 HR manager
‘I was lucky to having met you as my trainer.’ - J&J Global Health Services - Lead France, 2 day Energy for Performance in life course Belgium 2016.
‘Trainer Mark Teijgeler talks in an entertaining and engaging way about meditation, his own experiences and the benefits. His approach is clear and down-to-earth: no fuzzy fuss.' – Management Team Magazine
MORE INFORMATION
If you're interested in learning more about my activities, and how it can benefit you or your team or organization feel free to reach out and start the conversation.