Sally Henderson with Mark Evans on why the smartest leaders figure out how to achieve success and significance at the same time

Mark Evans spent a decade at Mars, nearly eleven years on the executive at Direct Line Group and has been made redundant four times, which is why he says high stakes is about going hard or going home because you only get one shot.

In this episode of The How of High Performance he talks about the walk around the block with his CEO three weeks before the biggest campaign of his career went on air, what he chose to say in that moment to keep everything alive, and how the trust he had built over years was the only thing he had to pull on when it mattered most.

Mark shares the speech a friend's father gave on graduation night that changed his entire worldview on success and significance, and his advice to fellow senior leaders is deceptively simple but something most people talk themselves out of every single day.

About the Show

The How of High Performance is a podcast hosted by Sally Henderson, High Stakes Leadership Mentor, Author, TEDx and Keynote Speaker with 26 years of experience mentoring senior leaders.

Why you lead gets all the attention, but it's HOW you lead that makes the real difference, especially when the stakes are high and the pressure is permanent.

Every episode, Sally talks with a leader who has been tested in leadership and in life, with guests spanning C-suite business, Olympic sport, academia and the military, and asks them to share what they learned about their HOW under pressure.

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