Tel: 01772 915007 - Email: me@markapreston.com - Form: Book Me
Digital Growth Speaker for Leadership Retreats
When you organise a leadership retreat, you are not just filling a schedule. You are shaping the mindset, confidence, and direction of the people who make the biggest decisions in your organisation. You want a speaker who understands the responsibility that carries. Someone who speaks with truth. Someone who brings clarity. Someone who lifts pressure instead of adding to it. Someone who connects with leaders on a human level.
My name is Mark Preston and I am known as 'THE' Digital Growth Speaker. My entire career has been built on leading real businesses through real challenges. Nothing I teach is theory. Nothing is fluffed up. Every insight comes from twenty five years in the trenches building and scaling my own companies and helping others transform theirs. My leadership message is grounded, practical, and deeply human because everything I share is drawn from lived experience.
Why Leadership Retreat Organisers Choose Mark
Leaders today are under intense pressure...
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They are expected to inspire their teams while navigating uncertainty.
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They are expected to drive growth while juggling complexity.
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They are expected to stay calm when everything around them is changing.
Your leadership retreat needs a speaker who gives them space to breathe and think clearly. Someone who helps them see the bigger picture without overwhelming them. Someone who speaks their language. Someone who understands what genuine leadership feels like behind closed doors.
I bring that depth because I have lived every stage of the journey...
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I have scaled my own lead generation business that served hundreds of local companies through a network of around one hundred and twenty websites.
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I have built and scaled a multi office digital growth agency turning unknown brands into trusted industry names.
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I have founded and grown my own white label digital growth franchise network to over fifty franchisees across the UK.
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I have trained hundreds of digital marketers around the world.
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I have transformed the digital ecosystem of the UK’s largest group of independent opticians, taking them from sixty five locations to more than five hundred while driving over fifty thousand quality appointments every month through organic growth alone.
Leaders listen when they know the speaker has walked the same path they are walking now.
What Your Leadership Audience Experiences
Leadership retreats create a rare moment where leaders step away from the noise. My role is to fill that space with clarity, honesty, and a renewed sense of direction.
Your leaders will leave with,,,
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A deeper understanding of how to view their organisation through a Connect Those Dots lens
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Clarity on the hidden gaps that slow down their growth and decision making
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A practical way to align departments, teams, and individuals around one growth approach
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Confidence to cut through complexity and lead with purpose
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A renewed belief in their ability to influence sustainable long term growth
This is where the real shift happens. The fog lifts. The path forward becomes visible.
Leaders reconnect with their role in shaping the journey of the business.
The £1b Dot Connecting Growth Framework
At the centre of every leadership retreat talk or keynote I deliver is my £1b dot connecting growth framework. It was built through decades of building and scaling my own businesses and helping others grow in a sustainable and profitable way. It has generated over one billion pounds in revenue without paid marketing spend because it focuses on connecting the dots that matter, not chasing the tactics that do not.
This framework gives leaders...
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A structured way to understand how their organisation truly operates.
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Clarity on where friction exists and how to remove it.
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A shared language to unite their teams.
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Confidence to make better decisions rooted in logic instead of noise.
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A simple and practical approach to sustainable long term growth.
Leaders embrace it because it demystifies growth and turns uncertainty into clarity.
Why Organisers Feel Safe Booking Mark Preston
Leadership retreats demand absolute trust. You are inviting a speaker into a space where the organisation’s most important conversations and decisions take place. You need someone who respects that environment. You need someone who arrives prepared, communicates clearly, and adapts when the agenda shifts. You need someone who removes pressure rather than creating it.
Because I have run my own events and supported event teams at large scale conferences hosting over a thousand attendees, I understand exactly what you manage behind the scenes. I know how important it is that the speaker you choose delivers without question. That is why I turn up early, stay flexible, and treat your retreat with the respect it deserves.
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You get a safe pair of hands.
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You get clarity.
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You get professionalism.
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You get a message that stays with your leaders long after the retreat ends.
Perfect For...
What Happens Next...
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Leadership retreats
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Executive offsites
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Senior team development gatherings
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Strategic leadership camps
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Founder and director retreats