About Me

• Aged 17 my working career starts working door to door direct sales for a national UK home improvement company turning over more than £52 million a year in direct sales.
• At 18 years old, personal development becomes an interest and through hard work, dedication and mindset I had achieved my first goal – earning over £1000 for a weeks work – ten times the average weekly wage for my age group at the time.
• At just 19 years old, I was made the youngest Branch Direct Marketing Manager in a national company of 52 branches.
• I broke company sales & marketing records in a number of different industries and won multiple national awards and incentives.
• I was asked to take on, manage and turn around a failing branch that was making a weekly loss. Within 6 months, I left it as the number one marketing branch in the country, and on target to do over £1 Million Pounds net annual sales that year.
• In numerous roles, I have trained recruited, managed, coached and mentored some of the very best (and indeed the worst) in the direct sales/marketing industry.
• A Company Marketing Director once presented a national sales award to me on stage by saying; “Mark is the most consistently performing Sales and Direct Marketing individual I have ever had the privilege of working with”

• I have Owner/Managed a number of businesses in different industries, including Property Lettings & Management / Real Estate, Property Maintenance, Home Security, Coaching, Training & Consultancy.
• After just under 12 years in the Direct Sales Industry, I started from scratch in my spare bedroom and with no financial investment or indeed previous industry experience – a Residential Letting/Managing (Real Estate) Agency.
• With me as Owner/Manager and with serious hard work, it was profitable almost immediately and within a year was fully staffed and had moved into a city centre shop and office.
• After 15 years of ownership, having grown it to the top-performing independent agency in its city, I sold it for an undisclosed multiple 6 figure sum, followed my passion for self-development and helping others, and started my Performance & Career/Business Transition Coaching business.

• Alongside 3 decades of first-hand, professional, business, mentoring and coaching experience, a number of formal coaching, training and qualifications were completed and obtained
• Certified NLP (Neuro-Linguistic Programming) Practitioner (SNLP)
• Certified NLP (Neuro-Linguistic Programming) Coach (SNLP)
• Trained Cognitive Behavioral Coach (ISCP, BPS)
• Practicing Performance & Career/Business Transition Coach (MAC)
• Specialising in working with Business Owners, Entrepreneurs, Performance-Driven Executives, and Professional Salespeople, Mark Ellis International Coaching was born.

To help create a picture of my experience and professional background you will see, I have listed a few of my highs and my wins along the way. I have without any previous experience reinvented myself in new industries and careers, achieved and received numerous awards, accolades and relative success in those job roles, careers, and businesses, and over the years recruited, managed, mentored and coached hundreds of people and helped many of them achieve the unthinkable.

However,  it hasn’t always been roses and plain sailing and throughout my adult life, there have been lows and losses along the way too! I have in the past had job roles that have been a roaring success and ones that haven’t worked out. I have had successful businesses and I have closed businesses. I have experienced the highs of wins and successes, and I have experienced the lows of burnout, overwhelm, frustration and extreme stress. There have been amazing personal relationships, and there have been failed personal relationships. I have had periods of financial abundance and periods of financial hardship. There have been periods of professional success with happiness; and there have been periods of professional success with depression, insomnia, grief & panic attacks.

However, through self-development, habits, mindset and indeed by reaching out and investing in personal and professional coaching myself along the way, I was able to work through and overcome my challenges and reach a place where relative success, abundance and wellbeing was and is my default. My mission now is to pass on my unique, experience, knowledge and skills and make a difference by helping, guiding and indeed coaching others just like you.