Mark Gordon

About Me

My Transformation Story

Hey my name is Mark, I am a Certified Transformation Life Coach who helps individuals upgrade their flight navigational system and gain clarity so they can be more purposefully intentional about where they want to fly their life plane.

I have been through a transformation journey and maybe you are on one right now? I have struggled with complex post-traumatic stress disorder (CPTSD) resulting in a constant feeling of anxiety and hyperarousal (like being on high alert constantly). Although my life has been balanced overall with accomplishments I'm proud of, I also experienced childhood bullying, overbearing/controlling parenting, learning to earn love through codependent patterns, people pleasing to fit in and self abandonment for fear of judgement while speaking my truth. This is unfortunately one way how CPTSD is formed although it appears you had a stable upbringing. Furthermore, what happened, is the unhealthy residual effects from these and other problematic experiences carried over through to my adult life and it eroded my self esteem, self trust and belief when I wasn't even aware of it. I was tired of running on the same hamster wheel cycles, showing up with the same toxic patterns, therefore, I felt that I was being called to address the blockers holding me back from being my authentic self and building the road to living my best life possible. I have always felt as though I was flying my own plane, however, I was not entirely using my own navigation system that directed it. This is often what leads us to finding ourselves in careers, relationships and choices in life that were not exactly what we intended, therefore, they no longer align with our true goals and desires. Finally being fed up with this overwhelming feeling of constant anxiety, I made a very intentional choice to install an operating system upgrade with new and improved functioning apps. I have deep experience with transformation and life change events in various areas of my life including multiple career transitions, going from a martial arts coach/champion to overcoming dehabilitating injuries, educational field changes, building my authentic self and becoming an empowered self-learner to chart a new path in life, just to name a few. And If you find yourself facing similar situations in your life currently, I get it and I feel you! Through my healing journey I was introduced to the field of life coaching. I have come to a point where I really appreciate what self-help, life coaching and a holistic healing approach can do to help improve one’s perspectives and direction. It was putting together this complete tool kit that I needed, in order to start making the right intentional moves toward how I wanted to show up in the world. I found that change in life is either reactive to situations you did not intend to happen, thus, forcing you to respond and other times it is more proactive, where you feel called to a new direction, that aligns with your authentic desires and goals. For me I found what really helped was installing a new navigation system, that combines positive past programming with new upgrades to cultivate a new outlook, start on a road of positive change and gets you to a state of living our best life possible which is different for each individual.

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Coaching with me

Results & Goals

Decision-Making & Life Transitions

1. Clarity & Direction: "finding my purpose, life path, what to do next, future planning"
2. Decision-making tools: "how to make big decisions, risk/readiness assessment"
3. Life shifts: "mid-life crisis, career break, starting over"
4. Mindset: "overcoming fear of change, self-discovery, inner wisdom"​​

Personal Development & Support

1. Mental Health: "feeling stuck, overwhelmed/burnout, self-doubt"
2. Mentorship/Guidance: "advice for life change"
3. Action-oriented: "goal setting/action plan, habits for success"
4. Growth & Development, Career Transition, Holistic Wellness, Relationships, Shift Perspectives

Your Takeaways & Results

1. Develop your owner's manual to navigating life changes that was never available for download nor taught in school
2. Save you time and frustration figuring out how to go about transformation & change all on your own
3. Identify issues, blockers and patterns of behavior that may be preventing you from moving forward with desired changes. Turning insights into action
4. Getting you out of this feeling of being stuck or on autopilot
5. Increased confidence with making life altering decisions and improve your direction to living your best life

How I like to coach

My approach is a coaching-consulting hybrid (coachsulting) - a targeted mix of applied psychology for self awareness, inner self work, guided brainstorming with powerful questions, resulting in empowerment to find your way successfully through whatever challenges you are facing. I also ensure a non-judgmental safe space for deep emotional processing.

Stage 1 – Develop your self awareness, authentic truth & piece together your story:

1. What happened in your life story, how is it impacting you now?
2. Clearly identify the main blockers holding you back.​
3. ​Discover and clarify what your authentic truths are and/or what are YOUR true desires?

Stage 2 – Designing your transformation & change roadmap:

1. Brainstorm strategies for moving forward and how to gain momentum to achieve your goals.
2. Together we will summarize the insights developed from stage 1.
3. Construct a holistic multi faceted approach on making you unstoppable moving ahead.
4. Set you up for success by collaborating on your readiness assessment, what do you need to be ready to transform and handle life change?

Stage 3 – Your transformation in action:

1. Focused goal planning, time management strategies; Lets really define your true priorities for success!
2. Attainable action steps based on the stage 2 roadmap.
3. How to hold yourself accountable and celebrate wins.
4. Allow the empowering feeling of inner transformation to replace the old self and equip you with the resilience tool kit to help you navigate life changes going forward.

Experience, Certifications & Training

Certifications and Degrees

• Certified Life Coach (ICF Accredited)
• Certified Transformation Life Coach
• Certified Cognitive Behavioral Life Coach

Professional and life experience

Leadership & Coaching Experience

1. Certified as a Life Coach (ICF Accredited), Transformation and Cognitive Behavioral Life Coach.
2. Senior Business Consultant for the Ontario Government - recipient of the highest award for an Innovative Service Delivery Project (2024).
3. Martial Arts Practitioner & Coach (over 20 years) - Kickboxing & MMA Competitor, Provincial Sport Jiu-Jitsu champion, multiple Black Belts.
4. Certified Fitness Consultant - assessing fitness levels & prescribing exercise programs.
5. Human Resources Professional - specializing in Workforce Planning; designing and delivering Learning & Development programs, certified in personality assessment tool (DiSC).
6. Career Coaching - coaching graduate, co-op students and international interns for entering the workplace, resume writing/interviewing skills for government careers. Placed IT interns within the Ontario Government for career opportunities that led to full time employment.
7. Lead trainer to junior and senior staff within various business units to produce high performance results on various initiatives.
8. Experience in different fields including Coaching, Psychology, Human Resources Management, Business Analysis and Digital Strategies for IT initiatives.