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Who is Patrick Mork?

Patrick Mork is a Silicon Valley veteran and 4x time chief marketing officer who led the team that launched the Google play brand in 2012. Today he works as a Purpose Driven Leadership coach, specialized in startups, company culture and marketing. He uses powerful stories and Co-Active coaching to help senior executives and startup founders make profound changes in their organizations and their lives.

In his role as leadership coach and storyteller, Patrick has been a personal advisor to senior executives at Apple, Google, Facebook, and several well-known startups including Onavo (acquired by Facebook), Distimo (acquired by App Annie) and Lime (the giant of electric scooters).

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Who is Patrick Mork?

Patrick Mork is a Silicon Valley veteran and 4x time chief marketing officer who led the team that launched the Google play brand in 2012. Today he works as a Purpose Driven Leadership coach, specialized in startups, company culture and marketing. He uses powerful stories and Co-Active coaching to help senior executives and startup founders make profound changes in their organizations and their lives.

In his role as leadership coach and storyteller, Patrick has been a personal advisor to senior executives at Apple, Google, Facebook, and several well-known startups including Onavo (acquired by Facebook), Distimo (acquired by App Annie) and Lime (the giant of electric scooters).

“A powerful book to find courage to live life intentionally and with meaning. Patrick’s life story is inspiring and his learnings can be applied to everyone. Through humanity, vulnerability and charisma, Patrick helps us reflect and find ways to face challenges and reinvent oneself. Worth reading!”

Barbara Martin Coppola, CEO of Decathlon

“A powerful book to find courage to live life intentionally and with meaning. Patrick’s life story is inspiring and his learnings can be applied to everyone. Through humanity, vulnerability and charisma, Patrick helps us reflect and find ways to face challenges and reinvent oneself. Worth reading!”

Barbara Martin Coppola, CEO of Decathlon

Purpose and Summary

Step Back and LEAP was written to help people who need to make a massive change in their lives. The objective is to help provide people with stories, tools and practical exercises to help them understand themselves better, align their career and life goals with their purpose and values and make massive transformation in their lives.

Have you ever woken up in the middle of the night and thought, “Where the hell is my life going?”

All of us have been there and most of us struggle to find the answer to simple but difficult questions like “What do I really want?” and “How do I actually make it happen?”

Patrick Mork, a former Google exec and serial tech marketer, hit that wall in 2017. After being fired twice in the span of 18 months at two different startups, he woke up one day terrified by the realization that what he had spent the past 20 years doing no longer excited him and that his passion for it was gone.

Divorced, nearly bankrupt and teetering on the edge of depression, his life and career were in ruins.

Fast forward 5 years. Patrick has become a highly sought after CEO coach and motivational speaker, built one of the fastest growing leadership development startups in South America, and moved to Santiago, Chile. He and his team have impacted 1,000’s of people and developed leaders and high performance teams for clients including Walmart, Liberty Media, Falabella and regional unicorns like Xepelin and Betterfly.

Step Back and Leap Is an authentic, personal and raw series of stories that trace the author’s life and challenges. From being bullied as a kid in Mexico, to flaming out in a startup destined for stardom in Silicon Valley. From starting a company at age 47 in a foreign country to surviving a near-revolution in the streets of Santiago, Chile. Each chapter recounts dramatic, real-life challenges Patrick faced and the 9 indispensable “keys” he used to systematically overcome each challenge.

But it doesn’t require a fortune, an MBA from a top school or having worked at Google to make radical, profound changes in your life. Anyone can do it. With the right tools, support, perspective and hard work.

Step Back and LEAP details 9 powerful keys to help you unlock your true self and live a life of purpose and meaning that is in line with your values.

Each key is supported by a series of proven, practical exercises which will help move you from inspiration to action as you start to become the person you really want to be.

“What might be possible if you could live a life of purpose and meaning?”

Imagine the possibilities….

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Psychological Safety – The Secret to High-Performing Teams

  • Format: 3-hour Morkshop

    What’s the Problem?

    You can’t innovate in a room full of silent head nods. If your people don’t feel safe to speak up, push back, or say “I don’t know,” then you’ve got a culture of fear—not performance.

    Psychological safety isn’t soft. It’s the foundation of every high-performing, risk-taking, truth-telling team. But most organizations are stuck in survival mode—playing not to lose instead of playing to win. Behind closed doors, people withhold ideas, avoid hard feedback, and play small because they’re afraid of being judged, blamed, or ignored.

    This Morkshop changes that—fast. From live feedback exercises to open-floor conversations, teams don’t just talk about psychological safety—they start creating it in real time.

    Who is this for?

    • Teams with strong talent but inconsistent collaboration or risk avoidance
    • Leaders who want to create environments where people feel safe to speak up, experiment, and innovate

    What will people get out of this?

    • A deep understanding of what Psychological Safety is and how it directly impacts innovation and performance
    • Practical strategies and language to build trust, invite vulnerability, and foster courageous conversations

    Includes access to Mork Guides on Building Trust, Vulnerability Loops, and Safe Communication—plus optional pairing with Patrick’s keynote, The Safety to Soar for maximum impact.

    All Mork Guides come with links to my Mork’s Leadership GPT which allows participants to use my GPT as a role playing partner to practice the relevant exercises in each guide.