Launched a firm after a painful exit
“Being pushed off the partnership track forced a hard look at what mattered. Mark helped me see my own track record clearly enough to start my own firm.”
For professionals who know they’re capable of more.
A four-week executive career strategy engagement to clarify your value, sharpen your positioning, and move decisively on what’s next.
The job market is not what it used to be. M4’s tools, approaches, techniques have been crafted and refined over decades to provide powerful solutions and:
Most advice teaches you to look for jobs. M4 teaches you to be found for the role you’re actually built for. Walk into it with a story the market can’t misread.
Define what makes you uniquely valuable.
Build a compelling professional narrative.
Structure your Outreach campaign
Execute your search with clarity and confidence.
Professionals from every career stage, from Gen Z through encore executives, who used M4 to reposition, rebrand, and land what came next.
“Mark identified how I'd fallen off leadership's radar after being passed over for back-to-back VP roles. We built a plan, and I brought my boss a 3-step, 90-day performance case.”
“I started my search in full panic, imagining there were only a handful of jobs out there. Mark taught me new LinkedIn and outreach strategies and helped me earn two key certifications. In reality, there were whole job markets I hadn't considered.”
“I felt trapped, wondering if I'd chosen the wrong career path in my early 20s. Mark got me unstuck and showed me springboards into a high-growth related industry.”
The trademark curriculum was born after its creator spent two decades attracting audiences to the world’s most iconic characters and personalities, from The Walt Disney Studios, Warner Bros. and Sony Studios. From Will Smith to Tom Cruise, The Lion King to The Devil Wears Prada, the key was authentically locating and branding an appealing transfer from the performer to the audience. This same formula turned out to work for individual career seekers as they excavated, positioned, and built connections with future employers.
Built by the M4 Curriculum creator, who is also a past-awarded Marketing Week’s Marketer of the Decade.
Career Navigation and Mapping, integrating online talent profiles: CliftonStrengths or High5Test.
Working session plus written review of your elements.
M4 gets you moving fast. In four weeks you leave with the positioning, the materials, and the sequencing to act. M4 is built to compound long after the last session.
Whether you are still building your track record or already deep into it, M4 is a positioning engagement, not a traditional job search program. Over four weeks we sharpen your story, map the moves that compound your career, and prepare you to negotiate from strength.
You've outgrown your current role and want to reposition around the work you actually want to be known for.
You're between roles by design and refuse to run a reactive search. You want the next move to be deliberate.
You're ready for the next level You need a short but powerful Branding Portfolio with your authentic story, and how to position it to your network.
You're crossing into a new field and want a clear read on which parts of your track record travel, and where they land best.
Mindset and mission, marketing and messaging, mapping and momentum, manifest and metrics. Four working sessions, three proprietary frameworks, one private strategy session, sequenced so each milepost compounds on the last.
You personalize by your stage, needs for personalization & budget. Choose the one that’s perfect for you.
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1-on-1, weekends only
Encore Careers can span needing more funds for you, your family, or your parents, or finding a new purpose, a second or third act to rewrite retirement time and actions.
Pay ranges are broad context for framing your stage, not strict eligibility requirements.
| Class Size | Verve & Vital25+ | Velocity & Vantage35+ | Vanguard & Venturers45+ | Encore Voyages55+ |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 10 or Fewer(participants) | $844 | $1,044 | $1,644 | $2,244 |
| 5 or Fewer(participants) | $1,244 | $1,644 | $2,844 | $3,444 |
| 2 Max(participants) | $1,844 | $2,444 | $4,044 | $4,644 |
| Autograph Groups(1-on-1, weekends only) | $3,044 | $3,844 | $5,044 | $6,044 |

Every engagement is led by Mark, leveraging decades spent helping clients achieve their career goals. Four working sessions and a private executive strategy session, with Mark reading the room in real time and pressure-testing the decisions that define your next chapter.
Everything starts with one 15-minute call with Mark. You will talk through where you are, where you want to be, and whether M4 is the right fit. If it is, Mark will share cohort dates, locations, and next steps on the call.
No application form, no commitment. Just a short conversation.