Mark Black

Mark Black is a Heart & Double-Lung Transplant Recipient, 4-Time Marathoner, Best-Selling Author and Speaker

In an age when continuous change has become reality, learning how to navigate change, and develop radical resilience, is paramount. Mark has been helping organizations transform adversity into their competitve advantage since 2004.Mark Black is an award-winning speaker, coach, and best-selling author of "Live Life from the Heart: 52 Weeks to a Life of Passion and Purpose". A Heart and Double-Lung Transplant, Mark has overcome incredible odds to become a 4-time Marathon Runner, and a member of the World's First All-Heart Transplant Ironman Relay Team.

Born with a congenital heart defect, Mark barely survived his first week of life. Before reaching the age of two, Mark underwent two open heart surgeries. Then one day in May of 2001, at 23 yeard old, Mark was told that we have dying. Without a life-saving heart and double-lung transplant he wouldn't see his 25th birthday.

After coming near death Mark was put on the transplant waiting list where he waited for nearly a year. Finally, in September of 2002, the miracle happened. Mark successfully underwent a heart and double lung transplant on September 7th, 2002. Mark's story of courage and perseverance will inspire your audience to stop making excuses, take responsibility, and reach their potential..

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