Mark Bourgeois Experience

Mark Bourgeois - Experience


In providing team and individual development coaching, Mark Bourgeois offers deep experience in all aspects of corporate leadership, asset and development management, listed real estate operation, local authority place leadership and multisite team management.


20 Years of senior leadership experience combined with a contemporary leadership and coaching education

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  • 25 years experience in recruitment and development of senior level talent in Listed Real Estate Companies, a major Local Authority, and as Chief Executive of a major Government Agency
  • Coached throughout his leadership career by Zuni Consulting, Praester, Backley Black, Cooper Limon
  • Extensive use of assessment centre recruitment techniques
  • Implementation of team reorganisation with compassionate and thoughtful exit management
  • Extensive use of psychometric profiling (personality types) in talent filtering
  • Experience in development of team dynamics using tools such as Myers Briggs, Hogen, Belbin and Systematic Constellations
  • Extensive use of 360 initiatives with action based PDPs as outputs
  • Completed transformative leadership education:
  • 2019 - Cranfield School of Management - The Director as Strategic Leader
  • 2017 - Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership - Senior Executive Programme
  • Contemporary eduction in Leadership Coaching
  • 2023 - 2024 Coactive Training Institute  - Professional Leadership Coach Certification Programme (face to face London)
  • 2023 - Coaching Constellations  - Fundamentals Parts 1 and 2 (face to face London)

 


Turnaround leadership in Public Sector

  • Interim Chief Executive at Government Property Agency
  • Leadership of 450 strong organisation covering 55% of Government Commercial Portfolio including a £2bn development pipeline and 1,200 sqm AUM
  • Stabilised the organisation after 5 years of rapid growth
  • Balanced in year budgets and set strategic business plans
  • Developed and implemented transformation plan
  • Reorganised Senior Leadership team
  • Interim Corporate Director City Development at Liverpool City Council
  • Delivered a 15 month transformation remit whilst leading Development, Commercial, Property, Planning and Highways functions
  • Injected pace and direction into major development projects  covering commercial, film, residential and Arena
  • Led organisational review, restructure and appointment of senior permanent staff
  • As part of corporate management team, delivered a balanced budget of £72m savings
  • Improved external stakeholder relationships and enhanced the reputation of Liverpool as a City to do business
  • Delivered  strategic reset of LCC Companies and Commercial activities

 


10 Years listed REIT Board experience

  • Ran a £14m fee income business, managing relationships and service provision to 11 JV partner clients across numerous PM/AM/DM agreements
  • Implemented full property cost review across a £125m S/C portfolio, reducing and resetting costs by £25m (20%) over a three year period
  • Led through significant change and disruption, optimising performance with a focus on welfare and individual resilience through downsize periods.
  • Sat on Transformation steercos applying McKinsey playbook delivering improvements across specific workstreams:
  • Rental Income
  • Procurement Review
  • Cap Ex Allocation
  • Org Review
  • IT/Systems
  • Sat on IT, Innovation and ESG steercos, overseeing portfolio implementation of systems, customer innovations and carbon reduction programmes
  • Advisory Board of Concrete Trust, a funding vehicle for start up prop tech businesses, involving the review and commentary on potential investments

 


20 years strategic portfolio management

  • Managed portfolios of :
  • Value up to £12bn
  • Income up to £600m pa
  • Op Ex up to £150m pa
  • Service charge expenditure up to £125 pa
  • Cap ex programmes up to £120m pa
  • Managed assets with NOI ranging from £2m to £60m in UK and Ireland town and city centres and edge of town retail warehousing
  • Prepared, reviewed and monitored the delivery of cashflow underwrites in over 400 business plans applying risk weightings to upside and downside scenarios
  • Overseen c 2000 leasing deals to a wide range of retail, F & B, leisure, logistics , office and healthcare operators
  • Managed footfall of up to 200m visits pa



Chaired over 15 JV asset vehicle Boards

  • JV board member (and Chair) on asset vehicles (up to £1.5bn GAV) including Bristol Alliance, Birmingham Alliance, Croydon LP, Oracle LP, Brent Cross Partnership, Dundrum TC, West Quay Partnership, Swords JV and The Mall LP
  • Represented Liverpool City Council on several boards including Sciontec  (JV between LCC, Bruntwood and Liverpool universities)  Liverpool John Lennon Airport (JV with Peel Holdings) and LCC wholly owned company ACCL (operator of M&S Bank Arena and Conference centre)


Over 30 development projects

 

  • Overseen planning and delivery of complex repurpose plans including:
  • 300 unit PRS former Debenhams conversion in Leicester
  • 105 unit PRS scheme in Dundrum TC
  • Subdivision and profitable relet of former Debenhams in Bullring, Birmingham
  • Subdivision and retail/leisure/F & B reletting of former HoF store in Leicester
  • £60m award winning reconfiguration of Blackburn town centre
  • Board level oversight of Brent Cross and Croydon masterplans including shift from major 1.5m retail/leisure developments to mixed use phased masterplans
  • Oversight of Martinuex Galleries, Birmingham master plan/planning consent
  • Value accretive mixed use estate planning consents in Leeds, Bristol, Southampton, Dublin and Birmingham
  • Delivered intervention and reprogramming of Festival Gardens, a 1500 home reclaimed site in South Liverpool

 

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