Mark Schulman Travels from Nationwide
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Mark Schulman's Biography
Mark Schulman has enjoyed an unprecedented career over the last 25+ years as a first call drummer for world-class rock and pop artists. He has been voted ‘Top 3 Pop-Rock Drummers’ in the 2014 Modern Drummer Reader’s Poll.
Having finished his third record breaking world tour with P!NK (featured in that new DVD, 'The Truth About Love Tour' as well as DVDs from her ‘I’m Not Dead’ and ‘Funhouse’ tours) Mark joined Cher for her ‘Dressed To Kill’ World Tour 2014. Mark’s resume reads like a “Who’s Who” of international Rock n’ Roll royalty including acts such as BILLY IDOL, FOREIGNER, SHERYL CROW, STEVIE NICKS, BEYONCE’ and so many other world–class artists. He has drummed with VELVET REVOLVER at Ozzfest and for crowds of 200,000 at ef Festival with SIMPLE MINDS. Mark has appeared on nearly every American and European variety show on television including The Grammys, David Letterman, The Tonight Show, Conan O’Brian, Jon Stewart, American Idol, Paul O’ Grady, XFactor and Wetten Das.
Mark incorporates multimedia and drum performance/entertainment to describe, explain, enhance and captivate the audience. He also includes interactive activities that focus on kinetic processes that get attendees in touch with their own rhythms and strengthen emotional connections with their colleagues and families. In short, what makes Mark different is that his presentation is like a rock show disguised as a keynote with live drumming, interactive performances, compelling and emotional stories from his experiences playing drums with P!NK, Billy Idol, Foreigner, Cher and other world-class artists.
Music is not Mark's only driving force; he was the chairman of the board of directors of Create Now! a non-profit organization founded in 1996, to help change troubled children's lives through creative arts mentoring. A cancer survivor, Mark has also motivated children and teens through his work doing seminars with the Ronald McDonald House and benefits for the Teenage Cancer Trust in the UK.
Additional Background: Schulman is a classically trained cellist and as a teen, played with the Los Angeles Junior Philharmonic. He played cello on the 2009/2010 P!NK tour! He is also a music producer, trained audio engineer and studio co-owner of West Triad Recording Studio in Venice, California. As an active educator, Mark taught at the Los Angeles Music Academy and as one of the world’s most sought after drum clinicians, hosting clinics in countries around the world.
Mark produced his first DVD in his studio entitled, ‘A Day in the Recording Studio; A Do-It-Yourself Guide to Recording Great Drum Tracks for Drummers and All Musicians’ distributed by Hudson Music. The Mark Schulman Signature Snare Drum is the best selling signature product in the history of Gretsch.
Schulman’s writing/production credits include films, various international TV shows and commercials, radio jingles and interactive media projects for clients such as: McDonald’s, Mattel, IBM, Sony, Acura, Neutrogena, Honda, The Disney Channel, Nickelodeon, Showtime, USA Network, Comedy Central, Country Music Television, The Sopranos, School of Rock, Speed and Beverly Hills Cop III.
Participants in Mark’s sessions gain an understanding of how to immediately employ three foundational and powerful concepts into their professional and personal lives to increase individual and team performance regardless of position, disposition and point of view. They gain this valuable and unique information through Mark’s compelling, funny and performance based stories of working with musical greats such as PINK, Billy Idol, Foreigner, Stevie Nicks, Velvet Revolver and Tina Turner.
• Tips and tricks from Mark based on his interviews with world-class performers in all industries that give participants secrets to bust through fear, trepidation and anxiety associated with any type of performance, presentation, pitch or communication
• Entertaining live drumming with multi-media and interactive processes that build individual rhythm, increase energy and unify the entire group into one inspired performance
• A truly unique, invigorating, entertaining and emotional presentation that moves participants to take immediate action toward increased performance
Speaking Topics Include
1. Conquering Life’s Stage Fright: Three Steps To Top Performance
This presentation is like a rock show disguised as a keynote with live drumming, sticky powerful content, interactive drumming with the audience and even jam sessions with the C-Suite! Everyone operates with some degree of risk…so there will be some degree of fear. Mark addresses this issue by invigorating his audiences with world-class entertainment, road stories and three core concepts that give his audiences the blueprint to confident peak performance in their professional and personal lives.
Focus: Innovation, Performance, Communication, Sales, Leadership, Team Building, Breaking Through Barriers to Success.
2. Harnessing the Rhythm of Teams
An energetic, interactive and anecdotal presentation that gives audiences an experience of the evolution of collaboration through truly unique processes that feature rhythm, rock & roll and performance.
Focus: Individual and Team Top Performance, Sales/Presenting, Communication,
Innovation
3. Your Customers and You Are the Band
Using the metaphor of music and stories of world-class performers, Mark guides his audience through entertaining interactive processes and sticky content (as only a rock & roll drummer can do) to give attendees a fresh outlook and experience of the relationship between company and customer.