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Digital Growth Speaker at Board Leadership Conferences
Board leadership conferences are where clarity matters most. Your audience is made up of chairs, non executive directors, board members, and senior leaders who are responsible for direction, governance, risk, and long term value. As the organiser, you carry a very real weight. The growth speaker you choose must understand board reality... not just business theory.
You are not looking for surface level inspiration... You want perspective that respects the intelligence in the room. You want a talk, keynote, or workshop that helps board members think more clearly about growth, challenge assumptions with confidence, and connect strategic dots without getting dragged into operational detail.
My name is Mark Preston and I am known as 'THE' Digital Growth Speaker. What I bring to a board leadership conference comes from more than twenty five years of building, scaling, and governing real businesses. I do not speak about boardrooms from the outside... I sit in them myself.
Why Board Leadership Conference Organisers Choose Mark Preston... 'THE' Digital Growth Speaker
Boards are under increasing pressure...
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Digital change moves faster than governance cycles.
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Management teams often present activity instead of clarity.
Growth discussions become fragmented across marketing, technology, people, and operations.
The dots between strategy, execution, trust, and value creation are often disconnected. That disconnect makes it harder for boards to ask the right questions and steer the business with confidence...
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I have spent decades helping leadership teams simplify this complexity.
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I have built and scaled a multi office digital growth agency turning unknown brands into trusted market leaders.
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I have grown a lead generation business serving hundreds of organisations through a network of around one hundred and twenty websites.
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I have founded and scaled a white label digital growth franchise network to more than fifty franchisees across the UK.
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I have trained hundreds of professional digital marketers worldwide.
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I have scaled the digital ecosystem of the UK’s largest group of independent opticians from sixty five locations to more than five hundred, moving from low eight figure revenue to modest nine figure turnover while driving over fifty thousand quality appointments every month through organic growth alone.
Board level audiences engage because the conversation is grounded in outcomes... not tactics.
I Sit Where Your Audience Sits
This is where my perspective becomes different for board leadership audiences...
I am not only a growth speaker... I am also the Chief Growth Officer, director, and shareholder at multiple businesses.
I sit on company boards and live with the same pressures, trade offs, and accountability as the people in your audience.
I have also been a board member at an organisation turning over 1.9 billion dollars, directly influencing product development and growth decisions as part of the Wix SEO Advisory Board.
I understand how growth decisions are weighed at board level because I have been part of those conversations.
When I speak to board leaders... I am speaking peer to peer.
What Board Leaders Connect With
Board members value clarity, structure, and governance friendly thinking. They want to understand how growth actually works in a modern digital ecosystem without being buried in jargon or channel level detail. They want to know where risk lives, where opportunity compounds, and how leadership teams should be connecting the right dots...
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I help boards see growth as a connected system rather than a collection of activities.
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I show them where misalignment exists between strategy and execution, where trust is not converting into demand, and where complexity is masking underperformance.
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I help connect those dots so board conversations become sharper and more productive.
This approach resonates because it respects the role of the board.
What Your Board Leadership Audience Takes Away
Non Executive Directors and board leader delegates want insight they can take straight back into the boardroom. My talks, keynote, and workshop delivers that clarity.
Your audience leave with...
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A clearer way to challenge growth narratives constructively.
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Clarity on where digital complexity hides risk.
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A connected view of strategy, trust, and demand.
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Confidence to ask better questions of management teams.
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A Connect Those Dots mindset that supports long term value creation.
This is growth thinking designed for governance... not hype.
The £1b Dot Connecting Growth Framework
At the heart of every talk, keynote, and workshop that I deliver is my £1b dot connecting growth framework. It was built through twenty five years of building my own businesses, learning through mistakes, and scaling organisations with zero paid marketing spend. It has generated over one billion pounds in profitable revenue because it focuses on clarity, connection, and execution.
For board leadership audiences, my £1b dot connecting growth framework shows them how to...
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Connect strategy with execution.
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Turn trust and authority into predictable demand.
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Remove friction from complex customer journeys.
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Create alignment across leadership teams.
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Support sustainable and defensible growth decisions.
Organisers value this framework because it gives boards a shared language for growth.
Why NED and Board Leadership Event Organisers Feel Safe Booking Mark
Board leadership conferences demand professionalism, discretion, and credibility. You need a growth speaker who understands the audience, respects the environment, and delivers exactly what was promised.
I understand that pressure because I have run my own events and been part of the events team at large scale conferences hosting over a thousand attendees. I know what happens behind the scenes and I know how important it is to be a safe pair of hands.
With me, you get a growth speaker who...
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Understands and lives board level responsibility.
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Respects governance and accountability.
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Arrives prepared and composed.
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Adapts without fuss.
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Delivers a keynote that enhances the authority of your event.
Organisers often say that booking me felt reassuring and straightforward. That matters at board level.
Perfect For...
What Happens Next...
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Board leadership conferences
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Non executive director events
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Chair and trustee summits
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Corporate governance conferences
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Senior leadership and board away days
Share your Non Executive Director or board leadership conference objectives and what you want board members to walk away with. I will shape a talk, keynote, or workshop that sharpens thinking, supports governance, and gives your audience clarity they can act on with confidence.