smart. simple.
strategic.
solving organisational and human challenges to drive sustainable, profitable growth.
Risk Management
We design and implement comprehensive risk management frameworks that allow you to make quantified, intelligent decisions about the risks to your strategic goals and how to address them.
Governance
We establish better governance controls that underpin responsible, ethical conduct and build trust with your stakeholders.
Ethics & Compliance
We help you embed within your organisation the values necessary to drive ethical and compliant behaviours, protecting your brand and instilling confidence in stakeholders.
Legal
Utilising our legal firm partners or by helping you build or optimise your in-house legal capability, we can help navigate legal issues pragmatically, cost-effectively and in alignment with your strategic objectives
Organisational Coaching
Our coaching services empower your people to navigate challenges and seize opportunities, driving both personal and organisational growth.
consulting
Businesses
As your businesses grows, so can its problems. Solid risk management, governance and compliance foundations don't just stop you leaking time and money but can actively accelerate growth and enhance the value of your business.
We offer pragmatic, cost effective support across risk, governance and legal matters wherever an organisation is on its journey. As they say, the best time to plant a tree is twenty years ago; the second best time is now.
We can prioritise the live issues that are currently costing you time and money. Where necessary, we can engage our network of trusted professional partners at a lower cost than if you engaged them directly, with a management and quality assurance overlay that allows you to focus on running your business.
However, we don't just react to crises that have already occurred. We can also identify and address the underlying operational causes. This strategic work is designed to protect and enhance the value of your business over the longer term by mitigating loss, reducing reactive remedial spend and maximising operational efficiency.
Note that Mighty Conversations is not a law firm and does not provide legal advice. We partner with trusted law firms on your behalf where necessary.
Legal Teams
Whether you're an established legal team looking to evolve or a business aiming to develop in-house legal capabilities, we can provide innovative and practical solutions to your challenges.
We can help design, build and maintain the optimum legal support model to suit you, whether that is procuring and managing services from trusted professional partners, building or transforming your internal capability or implementing a blended model using internal solutions supplemented by external support.
Our consulting services cover all components of the value chain, from purpose to strategy, capability, organisational design and implementing processes, policies and technology.
We understand the pressure on legal functions to do more with less, to be more innovative and effective and to demonstrate the value that they deliver to the business they serve.
We leverage our extensive expertise to uncover the best solutions for you. We avoid perpetuating conventional wisdom and creating dependency through imposing costly frameworks. Instead, our method encourages creativity, fosters self-sufficiency, and leads to unique outcomes tailored to your team and business.
Mark has over 13 years experience as a General Counsel building and leading in-house teams in both the UK and Australia & New Zealand, and most recently held the role of global General Counsel, Commercial and Chief Legal Innovation Officer for a listed multinational group.
coaching
At Mighty Conversations, we help business professionals realise their full potential.
Through the power of human connection and transformative dialogue, combined with a deep understanding of the corporate environment, our coaching services can help both individuals and teams across a wide range of professional challenges:
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Transitioning from Founder to Leader
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Strategic Thinking and Decision-Making
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Navigating Career Transitions
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Enhancing Personal Growth and Self-Awareness
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Improving Well-being
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Creating a Positive Organisational Culture
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Finding Personal and Functional Purpose
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Adapting to Change
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Managing Workload and Priorities
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Influencing Business Leadership
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Enhancing Communication and Presentation Skills
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Improving Personal and Team Impact
Let’s start a mighty conversation today and unlock the extraordinary within you and your team.
We also believe that mental health in business is a critical issue that sadly remains both stigmatised and under-supported. Therefore, we pledge to donate 5% of all profits from our coaching work to Beyond Blue, one of Australia's most trusted, not-for-profit mental health organisations.
Learn more about coaching here.
We are here to support you every step of the way.
Mark Guthrie is the founder and principal of Mighty Conversations. He is a qualified professional organisational coach and a member of the Institute of Executive Coaching and Leadership (IECL).
Mark's a seasoned lawyer with over 20 years' global experience across private practice and in-house. Most recently, he spent 13 years as General Counsel with a global advertising group where he built and led high-performing legal teams in both the UK and Australia & New Zealand, before becoming the global group’s General Counsel, Commercial and their Chief Legal Innovation Officer. During his tenure, he was a director of the group's Australian and New Zealand companies, member of the ANZ Executive Leadership Team and Chair of the ANZ Risk Committee.
He is consistently recognised for his empathy, pragmatism, collaboration, strategic thinking, creativity and highly commercial approach.
Mark holds an Honours Degree in Law and Postgraduate Diploma in Legal Practice from the University of Strathclyde, Scotland, and is admitted as a solicitor in Scotland and England. He also holds Certificates in Strategic Executive Management and in Organisational Effectiveness from Said Business School, University of Oxford and a Certificate in Risk Management from the Governance Institute of Australia.
As well as the IECL, he is a member of the Law Society of Scotland, CLOC (Corporate Legal Operations Consortium), the Centre for Legal Innovation and, revealingly, The Sherlock Holmes Society of London.
Mark lives with his incredibly patient wife and two mischievous Miniature Schnauzers, Gretel and Gracie. He splits his time between Melbourne and Foster, South Gippsland, where he volunteers with his local SES unit.
who we are
why we're different
In a world where the focus on data and technology often overshadows the importance of human connection, meaningful conversations are more essential than ever for unlocking individual and organisational growth.
For that reason, whether we’re engaged for coaching or consulting, connection through conversation sits at the heart of all we do. We will not, and will never, have purely transactional relationships with any of our clients.
The value you receive comes from the unique relationship we co-create; a very special balance between trust and tension. The connection we make creates the trust that allows us to have the challenging conversations necessary to help you learn and grow.
These are the conversations that build self-belief, ignite creativity, enhance performance and well-being, and open up exhilarating new perspectives within ourselves and our work environments.
Whether they're your own or your team's, talking openly about our professional challenges might feel daunting. Yet, when these conversations occur without judgment and with empathy, respect and understanding, they can lead to profound individual and collective professional growth.
Whether you’re naturally reserved or outgoing, embracing meaningful conversation is a straightforward yet profound step towards enriching your professional life.
Let’s start a mighty conversation today and unlock the extraordinary within you and your team.
Let's have a conversation
If you're ready to take the next step in unlocking your potential as a legal professional, we would love to hear from you. Contact us today to schedule a free, no obligation conversation or simply to learn more about our coaching and consulting services.