The Habit Stack Method

Mark Holland is a behavior-change coach, speaker, and the author of *The Habit Stack Method*. Over the past fifteen years, he has helped professionals, parents, students, and athletes build routines that last — not through willpower or discipline, but by placing new behaviors inside the flow of ordinary days.

Mark began his career in corporate learning and development, where he noticed the same pattern year after year: highly motivated employees would commit to new habits in January and quietly abandon them by March. Curious about why good intentions fail, he studied behavior design, implementation-intention research, and the neuroscience of habit formation, and he began testing small, anchored routines with his clients — a walk after lunch, two pages after coffee, five minutes of reflection before bed. The results were consistent enough to become a method, and that method became the foundation of his coaching practice and workshops.

He writes a popular newsletter on habit design and has been featured on podcasts and wellness platforms that focus on practical, no-gimmick self-improvement. Mark lives in Portland, Oregon, with his wife and two children, where he practices what he preaches: his own day runs on a handful of deliberately small, carefully anchored stacks. He shares free checklists, anchor worksheets, and a copy of the first week of the Habit Stack Method on his website and newsletter.