Patrick Mork
The CEO Whisperer Who Built Google Play's Brand From Scratch
Studied at INSEAD
Hiring Manager at Mork Inc.
Available tomorrow at 8:00 PM UTC
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Patrick's Offerings
Custom hourly · $1,000/hr
Patrick’s Executive Coaching Qualifications
Coaches professionally
Experience level: Executive
60+ people coached for Executive Coaching
You're not paying $1,000 an hour for advice. You're paying for 25 years of decisions made under pressure across 11 countries, four continents, and some of the most competitive companies on the planet. I built Google Play's brand from zero. I've sat in the seat you're sitting in as a 3x CMO, navigated the politics, the board dynamics, the moments where everything felt like it was falling apart. I've also rebuilt my own career from scratch, twice, so I'm not theorizing about reinvention. I'm living proof of it. What you get in our sessions is radical clarity: the pattern you can't see because you're inside it, the hard truth your team won't tell you, and a concrete plan you can execute this week, not this quarter. I work with CEOs and senior leaders who are done collecting frameworks and ready to actually move. If you want someone who will challenge you, hold you accountable, and compress months of indecision into a single conversation, let's talk. If you want someone who will nod along and validate what you already believe, I'm not your guy.
About Patrick
Former CMO at Google Play turned executive advisor, keynote speaker, and bestselling author of Step Back and LEAP. With 25+ years of global leadership experience across 11 countries and four continents, Patrick has built and scaled teams at Google, led turnarounds at Silicon Valley startups, and launched a leadership development company from scratch in Santiago, Chile. He holds an MBA from INSEAD and is an ICF certified executive advisor who works directly with CEOs and senior leaders navigating AI transformation, first-time CEO transitions, post-exit reinvention, and scaling through organizational crisis. His methodology blends a proprietary 360 leadership diagnostic (Mork MIrror), five evidence-based resilience pillars, and a library of 12 original leadership workbooks developed through years of hands-on work with high-growth teams. Patrick's mentoring philosophy is simple: Truth over comfort, Resilience over fear. He pushes leaders to close the gap between where they are and where they're capable of operating, compressing time-to-decision and time-to-action. His clients include VC and PE-backed company leaders across the Americas, and his frameworks have been delivered as keynotes and workshops to audiences of 500+ at Google IO, SXSW, Mobile World Congress, The Volcano Summit and for companies including Google, Walmart, Unilever, Scotiabank, Liberty Media and Falabella. Based in Miami. Quadrilingual in English, Spanish, French, and Portuguese. Unapologetically direct.
Why do I coach?
Nearly nine years ago, I was broken. I'd been fired twice from multiple startups in the span of 18 months, been divorced, and was pretty lost. My life just seemed to be coming apart at the seams. Regardless of my experience or education or smarts, I just couldn't tell black from white or up from down. I hired an executive coach who worked with me for nine months, and that was the beginning not only of my rebirth but also of a complete change in direction. I subsequently became an executive coach and left my 20-year background in technology marketing behind. Over the course of that time, I've been able to help some amazing and remarkable people get clarity about themselves, what they want, why they want it, and how they're going to get it. I've started two other companies, I've written a best-selling book, and learned an enormous amount about human nature and what limits us. Today, my purpose is to be the inspiring energy that helps people find careers of meaning and purpose. That's a large part of what I dedicate my life to, aside from motivational speaking, executive coaching for tech CEOs, my podcasts, and the workshops that I run. It's been a difficult but incredibly rewarding and rich journey so far, and I hope I can give back through this work to others who are equally lost or just need help.
Work Experience
Mentor and advisor.
Endeavor
June 2024 - Present
Advisory role supporting high-growth founders selected into the Endeavor global network. Work directly with scale-stage CEOs navigating: • Rapid expansion • Investor pressure and capital raises • Executive team build-out • Go-to-market inflection points • Organizational complexity at scale Endeavor companies operate across fintech, marketplaces, enterprise software, and consumer sectors — many achieving unicorn status and global expansion.
Founder and CEO
Leap
August 2018 - June 2024
Hiring Manager
Bootstrapped LEAP from a single executive coach to 32 coaches across 10 countries - Hired and managed the members of our sales, marketing and ops teams - Launched LEAP's core products including LEAP Manager, 360 and Leadership academy - Developed the company's sales strategy including pricing, lead generation and brand strategy Results: - Together with our amazing team, grew revenue 300% over 2 years with next to no investment - 9.1 Net Promoter from our clients, 8.8 Employee Promoter score , 9.3 Coach Promoter Score - Built a library of 100's of pieces of leadership content including the most watched Spanish video on Leadership fundamentals on YouTube in Latin America with over 750,000 views
Founder and Chief Storyteller
Mork Inc.
June 2017 - Present
Hiring Manager
I advise CEOs and senior leadership teams leading $30M–$1B organizations through high-stakes growth, executive misalignment, ownership transition, and AI-driven transformation. My work focuses on strengthening leadership effectiveness at critical inflection points — where execution risk directly impacts enterprise value. This includes periods of scale, restructuring, investor-backed growth, and moments where organizations must adapt leadership behavior and decision-making to operate effectively in the Age of AI. Core Areas of Impact Executive decision clarity under pressure CEO advisory during scale, restructuring, and strategic transition Senior team alignment during growth and ownership change Performance standards without cultural erosion Leadership stabilization post-acquisition or rapid expansion Integrating AI into executive decision-making and leadership practice Engagement Approach: Direct CEO partnership during high-consequence decision cycles Structured executive alignment intensives Leadership integration support post-acquisition Proprietary leadership diagnostics and AI-augmented decision tools to embed execution discipline Trusted by senior operators in venture-backed, PE-backed, and global organizations.
Chief Marketing Officer
Course Hero
June 2016 - March 2017
Hiring Manager
- Led the rebranding / repositioning of the company - Streamlined and scaled the marketing team
Entrepreneur in Residence
Signia Venture Partners
October 2013 - November 2014
Hiring Manager
Recruited founding team, wrote business plan, pitched investors, developed initial product strategy for a tablet-based video game startup
Chief Marketing Officer of Google Play
September 2011 - August 2013
Hiring Manager
-Built and led the marketing team that created the Google play brand and launched the store -Recruited and managed the US-based marketing team from scratch (2 FT to 10 FT+ 8 PT) -Drove the consumer marketing strategy that helped grow the business from $700M to $2B+ ARR -Oversaw the Launch of Music / All Access, Books, Movies and Magazines
Chief Marketing Officer
GetJar
October 2008 - August 2011
Hiring Manager
- Developed the company's positioning and brand strategy - Hired, trained and managed the marketing & PR team (5 FT, 2 PT and 2 agencies) - Results: 6x sales in 2.5 years; Multiple awards; Tier 1 Press coverage (NYT, WSJ, Time) help to build one of the world's first top stores into a $350 million valuation.
SVP Marketing, Europe
glumobile.com
September 2006 - October 2008
Hiring Manager
- Hired, and trained the marketing organization to 14 people across 5 countries in the EU - Spearheaded the marketing strategy that grew revenues over 41% year-on-year - Part of EMEA management team leading to IPO
VP Marketing
Iplay
January 2005 - September 2006
Hiring Manager
CEO
Net-gaming
June 2002 - May 2004
Hiring Manager
Scaled and ran a franchise chain of cyber cafes focused on land-based multiplayer gaming in Spain.
Patrick was also given offers to work at
Nokia
Electronic Arts
Education
INSEAD
MBA, Entrepreneurship
Specialized in entrepreneurship Entrepreneurship, Sales and Marketing and +1 skill
McDonough School of Business (Georgetown)
Bachelor of Science in Foreign Service, History & Diplomacy
Activities and societies: Freshman class representative Treasurer of the French Club BSFS in Foreign Service; Treasurer of the French Club; Forum leader of WOD
Patrick was also personally admitted to
London Business School
Emory University
Vanderbilt University
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