About

Each day someone is asked to lead for the first time. In most cases they are unprepared and unlikely to receive much support.

In our 20 years of coaching businesses and individuals all over the world, we have seen too many people fail before they’ve even really begun.

Some, with their innate talent, learn on their feet while others struggle terribly. Regardless, it is often a difficult and sometimes lonely path, and many will fail.

We wrote Hard Road to be an extremely accessible guide to help people in their leadership journey. The character Christian Stuart is someone many people relate to, and the 5 Lessons he learns along the way when applied, have the ability to completely transform someone’s leadership approach, meaning fewer failures and more successes.

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martin west

Martin is a facilitator to leadership teams & executive coach.

For 17 years Martin has worked with clients across many industries in the US, Asia & Australia with a specific focus on building healthy successful teams. Martin’s passion is to facilitate conversations with client CEO’s and teams to help identify and overcome roadblocks impacting performance or team cohesion.

Prior to this Martin spent 15 years in the Australian Airforce as an F/A-18 Fighter Pilot and instructor.

mark bragg

Mark Bragg is a Performance and Leadership Coach with over 40 years of experience.

Over the past two decades he has worked as an Executive Coach in multiple business disciplines and industries in 23 countries.

In recent years, he has been working in San Francisco, Hong Kong, Dublin and Sydney with Emerging Australian entrepreneurs.

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testimonials

mike leyden

sales director, san francisco

"Mark has been instrumental in helping me shaping my philosophy on leadership, team culture, strategy creation and execution. He has an unusual ability to breakdown complex problems into their individual pieces to create specific and actionable plans for resolution. But what really separates Mark from other executive coaches/consultants is his deep understanding of people, what motivates them and how to get the most out of them. I look forward to working with Mark long into the future."

Janelle van de Velde

President Corporate Services

“Martin & Mark have had a significant impact on our business. They have improved how we think about our business and our capacity to execute our strategy.”

greg silin

platform engineering at tally inc

"Braggy cares for the people he works with and genuinely wants to see them succeed. He won't overwhelm you with pages of reading or with hours of motivational speeches. Braggy will listen, make sure he really understands your needs and give you just three or four pieces of advice - but those will hit the nail right on the head."

Tiho Bajic

VP Engineering at LTSE

“I've been fortunate to have Mark as my professional coach over the last 5 years. Braggy was largely influential in helping me rise to challenges I was fortunate to encounter during that time: from hiring the first members for the new product at Nitro to eventually overseeing a team of 50+ people. We worked together on a monthly basis through opportunities begotten through growth: scaling culture to multiple office, consistent performance, leadership learnings. He was also my go to counsel for tough decisions and situations. Some of his lessons like the rule of 3 in goal setting and defining 90-day measures of success have become my essential managerial tools.”