Biography
I connect with the heart of the leader to coach them to find their most excellent way. My coachmarkstamper.com site attests to that.
I am a certified coach through graduate studies at the University of Texas' Executive and Professional Coaching Program in their School of Management and additionally the Coaches Training Institute program. The Texas program included certification from the International Coaching Federation (ICF). In 2021 I earned the Professional Certified Coach (PCC) level.
I retired from IBM after 35 1/2 years. During my career, I was a senior consultant and an internal professional coach, coaching in many IBM programs, including Master Deal Maker, Career Advisor, Distinguished Engineer candidates, High Impact Presenting, Advanced Sales Coaching, Life-Work Balance and Resilience workshops, etc. During my last year with IBM, I was also the leader of the IBM Coaching Community of Practice, a worldwide community of 500 coaches. And I'm still honored to have received the prestigious IBM Leadership Award.
In 2010 I earned a Wellness Inventory Certification. Although I had my own Coach Mark Stamper coaching and speaking business, I wanted to take my practice holistic, and knew that wellness was the missing piece. I currently do whole person health and wellness coaching.
I do select contract coaching through my Coach Mark Stamper practice and as a sub-contractor for other companies. I am honored by what one of my clients said, "You truly helped me through some decisions as a turning point in my life. I do believe that you are one of the most insightful people that I've worked with."
Being an experienced motivational speaker, workshops have also been part of my practice. I like to craft presentations that provide hands on tools that anyone can use to define their goals and develop a strategy to achieve them.
This is my seventh year as an adjunct instructor and mentor coach at Maryland University of Integrative Health (MUIH) I am proud of my Faculty Teaching Award from MUIH in 2019. I am also a mentor coach at the University of Texas.
I served on the board of directors for the Tennessee chapter of the International Coaching Federation in 2022.
I taught for over 30 years as an adjunct for Ivy Tech Community College in Indiana, the largest accredited statewide community college system. In addition to years in the classroom, I was certified by them to teach online. I was also honored to be awarded an Excellence in Instruction award in 2015, which is basically an adjunct of the year award. I was chosen to speak at the adjunct faculty statewide conference in 2012 on Connecting in the Classroom. I also briefly taught at Indiana Wesleyan University, where I also earned my MBA and was awarded the Outstanding Professional of the Class award. Ivy Tech also engaged me into a staff training program at Notre Dame, where I taught marketing and management courses for a couple of years.
Contributing to our society drove a leadership role as the president of three non-profits. Two of those was working with former offenders, and I am very honored to have been awarded a Volunteer Service Award from the White House for work with one of them. Currently, I am President of the Board and a founder of International Body-Mind Enterprises (i.b.mee), a non-profit out of Asheville, NC using Wellness, Empowerment, Leadership and Legacy to transform education. In 2022 I am also serving on the board of the ICF Tennessee chapter.
I worked for a newspaper before IBM and am a Marine Corps veteran.
Personally, I love to play tennis and was on a USTA club team that won the Indiana State Championship at the 3.5 level in 2013 and then finished second in the Midwest Region Championships. I believe in fitness and although now a long time ago, that played out by bicycling around Lake Michigan and completing the Chicago Marathon.