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Performance coach to more than 100 of the world's best in sport, business and entertainment. His definition of high performance is three words: no wasted effort.
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Mark Dobson, known as Dobbo, has spent three decades inside high-performance environments, from Olympic campaigns to global corporations, working on one problem: the gap between what people intend to achieve and what they actually do. He calls the discipline Execution Accuracy.
In sport, athletes under his guidance have won Olympic medals, broken seven world records and competed at world championships across seven different sports. In business, his finance clients have moved from fourth to first in national Net Promoter Scores, and his clients include NAB, Commonwealth Bank, Nestlé, Energy Australia and Bega. In education, he was the founding Director of Culture and Performance at Bard College Early University in New York City.
His keynotes are known for candour and humour, and for leaving an audience with a method as well as a mood. Many clients have kept him on for three to ten years. He is the author of No Wasted Effort and The Performance Conference.
The steps and thinking behind a world-class outcome, with footage and examples from elite environments.
The three foundations elite teams are built on and four low-effort behaviours that create them fast.
Setting new standards, defining success and failure, leading accountability and difficult conversations.
The mindset tools Mark has trained thousands of people in: deliver on all you are capable of, rise to a new level, do what has never been done.
For SME and franchise audiences: leadership, sales, profit, people and systems, from an adviser to more than 20 businesses.
"Mark shrinks what is insurmountable into the activities that really matter. He narrows your focus."
"Mark has a clear understanding of the mindset that is required in order to gain the edge needed for optimal performance."
"More than a thousand have climbed Everest, very few can do what Mark Dobson does. He is a master of innovation."
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Companies spend $200,000 to $1 million bringing everyone together, then judge the result with a feedback form. Performance coach Mark Dobson thinks the annual conference is where strategy should start turning into behaviour.
Keynote Journal · 12 November 2026
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