Mark Sears

My work brings together multiple tools, techniques and change models. Through each client relationship I am able to offer an adaptable approach using these different models in ways that suit the unique needs of that organisation or place.   

As a creative catalyst and movement builder for social change I founded and ran the organisation The Wild Network, a collaboration that brought together organisations including RSPB and National Trust as well hundreds of grassroots organisations around a shared purpose – reconnecting children with nature. Together we made a feature film, Project Wild Things, seen by over 1.5 million people worldwide and kick-started a significant shift in culture.   

​I am passionate about social justice and overcoming profound health inequalities and this has led me to work extensively within the Sport England Place Expansion ecosystem.  I have delivered systems leadership programmes for the Local Delivery Pilots in Birmingham & Solihull and Essex and facilitated workshops for Sport England to support the co-creation of the Uniting the Movement Implementation Strategy.  

I am one of the LGA’s chosen systems leadership facilitators, supporting the Sport England place-based expansion in Barnsley, Swindon, Tower Hamlets and Stoke-on-Trent.   

I am also co-creator of the Fearless Learning Programme, an approach to place-based systems leadership that has been delivered to over 100 individuals involved in the Sport England place expansion programme.  I co-authored the Active Communities artefact which brought together 6 years of learning in Birmingham and Solihull through the Local Delivery Pilot to support on-going place-based work in those places and beyond. taws_ac-story-artefact_FINAL-WEB.pdf  

My broad portfolio of work, and independent approach allows me to work across several sectors working with individuals as well as organisations. Ultimately, I have come to recognise that real change will only emerge through a dedication to inner transformation and through practicing different behaviours through which systems change can thrive.    

I am available to work nationally, for facilitation of group processes, co-creation of ideas and projects from initiation to implementation and for leadership training.   

I also work as a Wilderness Rites of Passage Guide, supporting people through life transitions in wild places. Originally from the West Midlands and West Yorkshire, I now live in Devon with my family and Canadian canoe.