Searching for the Summit won an Emmy for Best Documentary and was nominated for Best Cinematography
Helped Scale Sports Illustrated’s Team Network from Zero to Over 50 Million Monthly Visitors
Generated More Than 1 Billion Page Views During His Tenure at Sports Illustrated
Emmy Winning Documentary Star with a Film Viewed by Millions Worldwide
NFL Veteran with 5 Years in the League Across the Raiders, Saints and Rams
One of Only 2 NFL Players in History to Climb the Seven Summits
275+ episodes with 200K downloads and $150K raised
Helped Scale Sports Illustrated’s Team Network from Zero to Over 50 Million Monthly Visitors
Generated more than 1 billion page views per year at sports illustrated
Emmy Award Winning Documentary viewed by millions worldwide
NFL Veteran with 5 Years in the League Across the Raiders, Saints and Rams
The Only NFL player to climb the seven summits Matterhorn, Eiger, Mont Blanc, Grand Teton, Cotapoxi and Mt Rainer
500K+ Social Audience, 275+ Podcast Episodes, Finding Your Summit Book, 150K+ Raised for Charity
Searching for the Summit won an Emmy for Best Documentary and was nominated for Best Cinematography
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Why Mark Is the Speaker Your Event Needs
Mark shows leaders how to create clarity and momentum by setting goals that matter. His own journey is proof of what focused purpose can achieve.
Mark became the first NFL player to complete the Seven Summits. He overcame snow blindness, severe burns, a cyclone, a COVID outbreak at altitude and running out of oxygen on Everest. His message teaches grit in a way theory never can.
Mark’s Pyramid of Success helped him:
• Play in the NFL
• Grow companies to multi-million levels
• Climb every major peak on the planet
• Scale the Sports Illustrated Team Network from zero to 50 million visitors and more than 1 billion page views
NFL Player
Mark played with the Raiders, Rams & Saints. He's a vested member of the NFL Players Association.
Leadership Coach
Mark leverages his unique experience as a former NFL player, Seven Summits mountaineer and 10 year Sports Illustrated exec to help executives and teams build resilience, scale success, and drive high-performance leadership.
Mountaineer
Mark is in rare company to be the only NFL Player to EVER scale the Seven Summits, Cotopaxi, The Matterhorn, Eiger, Mt Blanc and The Grand Teton
Emmy Winner
2022 Sports Emmy Award winner. Searching for the Summit-- Best Short Documentary.
Business Consulting and Coaching for High-Growth Companies
Mark has worked behind the scenes with some of the most influential sports and media brands in the country. His consulting and coaching have helped organizations sharpen their strategy, strengthen leadership, and scale their reach to audiences in the millions.
Men’s Journal, Powder Magazine, The Spun, Athlon Sports, A to Z Sports, Fadeaway World, Basketball Network and more.
If your company wants clarity, structure and a performance mindset, Mark brings the tools and experience to make it happen.
150 monthly page views reached.
1 Billion pages view delivered in 2025
Mark’s executive leadership at Sports Illustrated helped drive significant digital expansion and audience engagement. He contributed to building a network that reshaped how fans consume sports content across the country.
Experience that turns strategy into scalable, high-impact results.
Building High-Performing Teams
Mark’s experience in the NFL and leading teams at Sports Illustrated has given him a deep understanding of what makes teams truly succeed. His coaching focuses on creating a culture of accountability, trust, and collaboration, ensuring teams perform at their best, even under pressure. At S.I, he drove over 1 billion page views in 2025 by leading teams to trust the process and execute the vision.
Scaling with Clarity and Vision
Mark has helped organizations scale by aligning leadership with clear goals. From driving growth at Sports Illustrated where the company went from #17 to #1 over his tenure, his strategies ensure companies grow sustainably, with teams that are equipped to thrive during change.
Leadership Tested in Adversity
Mark’s leadership is built on real-world challenges. Whether climbing Everest or leading teams in high-stakes environments, he teaches leaders to remain focused and resilient when faced with uncertainty, ensuring they rise to any occasion.
Finding Your Summit takes readers inside Mark Pattison’s journey from the NFL to the Seven Summits, revealing what extreme environments teach us about leadership, decision-making, resilience, and moving forward when life gets hard.
Through raw, unfiltered stories from Mount Everest, Denali, Aconcagua, and the challenges long before the mountains, Mark shows how clarity, discipline, and endurance are built one deliberate step at a time. The book makes one truth unmistakably clear: the most demanding climbs are often the ones happening inside us.
At the heart of the book is Mark’s SUMMITS Model—a practical framework forged through years of adversity, high performance, and moments when quitting would have been justified. This model offers readers a repeatable way to navigate uncertainty, reset identity, and lead with purpose under pressure.
Finding Your Summit is more than a story about mountains. It is a guide for leaders, athletes, entrepreneurs, and anyone in transition who is ready to rise above their circumstances, rebuild with intention, and climb toward a life that demands more—and rewards the effort it takes to earn it.
An Emmy Award Winning Story
Searching for the Summit earned Mark a Sports Emmy Award for Best Short Documentary, along with a nomination for Best Cinematography. The film follows his ascent of Mt. Everest and the deeper mission that inspired it.
An NFL Career That Built a Foundation for Impact
Before climbing the world’s tallest mountains, Mark built his reputation in the NFL with five seasons across the Raiders, Saints, and Rams. His Hall of Fame honors from both High School and the University of Washington reflect a lifetime of consistency, teamwork, and elite performance.
Today, those same principles fuel the leadership systems he teaches to organizations and teams everywhere.
One of the Few to Conquer All Seven Summits
Mark is part of an elite group who have climbed the Seven Summits, completing some of the most demanding mountains on Earth. His journey spans Cotopaxi, The Matterhorn, The Eiger, Mont Blanc, Mt. Rainier, The Grand Teton, and ultimately, the summit of Mt. Everest.
These climbs are more than achievements. They are proof of disciplined preparation, calculated decision-making, and the mental resilience he now teaches to executives and teams.
275+ Conversations on Resilience, Leadership, and Finding Your Path
Mark hosts the Finding Your Summit podcast, featuring world-class athletes, business leaders, actors, and high performers. Every episode explores real stories of adversity, breakthrough moments, and the mindset shifts that helped guests find their own summit.
A Purpose Greater Than the Mountain
Climbing for Emilia
Mark’s deepest purpose comes from a very personal summit, his daughter Emilia’s battle with epilepsy. When her condition became critical, Mark turned his Everest climb into Emilia’s Everest, a mission to raise awareness and funds for families facing the same fight.
Carrying Emilia’s story through snow blindness, storms, and running out of oxygen, Mark completed the climb and helped raise over $150,000 for epilepsy support programs, with contributions from the NFL and the Las Vegas Raiders.
Today, Mark continues his work with Higher Ground, empowering individuals with disabilities through connection and adaptive recreation.
Every climb has a purpose. This is his mission in life to help others and pay it forward.
"Mark was truly inspiring by his story. In the middle of his divorce, he decided to focus on a goal so outrageous that he was able to pull himself out of the negative space he was in. He spoke about loving the process and how much training it took to climb MT EVEREST & the Seven Summits. Finally, being able to pay it forward and see his daughter get healed was the icing on the cake. What a night!!"
Kure It Cancer ResearchMarch 30th, 2023 
"Paul and I want to thank you so much for coming down to So Cal for the event on Thursday night. We have gotten amazing feedback from the film and your words after it. People were really blown away by your climb and inspired by your story. We would look forward to doing another one with you!"
Game Change IncMarch 2023 
"As a longtime member of Entrepreneurs' Organization, I’ve been blessed to partake in many amazing experiences over the years that have inspired me to elevate my thinking, my leadership and myself. Many of these once-in-a-lifetime events include world-class speakers. My most recent Transcend Forum retreat was no exception!"
EO's Transcend Forum AttendeeJune 2023 
"As a speaker at our convention, Mark Pattison was phenomenal! The way he correlated his climbing experiences to life lessons was masterful, inspirational, and impactful. Mark’s story of grit and determination is a story everyone needs to hear! I could not more highly recommend Mr. Mark Pattison."
Marc WilsonCEO/Founder, Q Sciences | February 2022