“I found a place by a log just by a creek and at the time I didn’t realise the impact it would have on my future outdoor coaching conversations”
Sometimes an unexpected event can impact our future career trajectory. In 2004, Marc pulled over to the side of the road due to an accident and took his client call for his accreditation by a creek. This unplanned first remote outdoor coaching session shaped his practice for the next twenty years.
Life-long learner and educator Marc connects different modalities from within the world of coaching from leadership, mindfulness, physical intelligence and beyond in his conversations with individuals, teams and fellow coaches. His impressive qualification resume pays homage to his curiosity and thirst for knowledge over the last twenty years. He recently crafted a ground-breaking session on nature-inspired leadership at Virginia Commonwealth University based on his collective knowledge, skills and experience.
Marc inhabits an imaginative visual world full of metaphor inspired by childhood memories combined with an innate ability to be fully present in the moment. He divulges stories from his youth in British Columbia growing up surrounded by over 150 different varieties of rhododendrons in his back-garden courtesy of his parents, alongside garden snakes and raccoons.
Join us for the first episode of Season 8 of the Coaching Outdoors Podcast to discover what propelled Marc into the teaching world working with indigenous communities in his early career; the transformative power of metaphors from leaves and hills to rocks; his relationship with his bike otherwise fondly known as his therapist, the challenges he’s faced along the way – that includes the odd coyote and bear in the Canadian outback; then into the future to learn his hopes for the future…
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Marc Bowles is the CEO of MB Global, an ICF Accredited MCC coach, and ICF Mentor, Assessor, and driver of positive change which is the juice that fuels him to serve others.
He holds a Master Certified Coach credential from the International Coach Federation, a Bachelor of Education from the University of Victoria, and a Graduate Certificate in Executive Coaching from Royal Roads University. Marc is an ICF Certified Professional Mentor Coach through Royal Roads University, a Certified ICF PCC Assessor, Accredited Coach Supervisor, and a graduate of the National Coaching Institute for High-Performance Sport.
Marc is a Certified Systemic Team Coach, is licensed to facilitate the TAP360 Team Profile Advanced Assessment, a certified Coaching with Physical Intelligence, a certified ImagineME narrative and images coach certified Nature Connection Specialist, is licensed to facilitate the 5.5.5 Coaching Skills Training Program™ for Coaching Out of The Box®, the EBW® (Emotions and Behaviors in the Workplace) Assessment tool, Legacy Leadership®, and is a Conversational Intelligence® Enhanced Skills Coach.
Marc embraces a compassionate and giving mindset and this fuels his passions. Marc has given back through Ethical Coach with several other global coaches to provide volunteer coaching to leaders around the globe working to end hunger. He was also interviewed as part of a recent study by Henley Coaching School student James Prentice and overseen by Jonathan Passmore on Coaching Outdoors.
