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MARK THOMPSON
Expert On Innovation & Customer Engagement
Mark Thompson is a world-renowned executive coach and an expert on innovation and customer engagement. He is an active angel investor in over 20 industries and author of the best selling business book, Success Built to Last.
Former Chief Communications Officer for Charles Schwab & Co with five million client accounts with over $800 billion in client assets, he also served as Senior Vice President of the Schwab Client Experience. Later, as Executive Producer of Schwab.com, he created and hosted the Charles Schwab Leadership Series with dozens of great innovators, from Warren Buffett to Steve Jobs.
Mark is a rare speaker who has been a senior corporate executive, entrepreneur, business school coach, board member of a dozen Fortune 500 firms and a "venture investor with the 'Midas' touch," according to Forbes Magazine. Mark is a visiting Scholar at Stanford University and a Faculty member for the World Economic Forum, John F. Kennedy University, R.W. Baird Advanced Investment Advisor program at the University of Chicago and Tony Robbins Business Mastery Series.
Today, Mark delivers content-rich and inspiriting keynotes to every type of audience, from CEOs and entrepreneurs to front-line employees, for corporations and trade associations.
"Mark Thompson is the Napoleon Hill of the 21st Century. A bestselling author, corporate advisor, economic wizard and leadership guru whose bestselling books and keynotes inspire leaders." - Teri Whitcraft, ABC
Credentials:
Forefront of new media
Angel investor in Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn; investor behind top iPhone / iTunes apps T-Pain (over 1 milion downloads) and Ocarina (one of Apple's Top 20 downloads of all time).
Bestselling Author and Editor:
Author of Success Built to Last, the sequel to Built to Last by Jim Collins and Jerry Porras.
Author and Host of Leaders of the New Century series, Charles Schwab CEO series, Women on Leadership, Getting it Done with Larry Bossidy, Blowing up the Factory with Jack Welch, Seven Secrets with Maya Angelou, Creating a Life that Matters on PBS and the Korn Ferry International and Ernst & Young
Thought Leaders series:
Editor of Harvard Business Review publications Crisis as Opportunity and Weathering the Storm.
Co-Author of John F. Kennedy University's Success Built to Last seminars focused on strengthening business, sales, team, customer and personal relationships.
Academic Appointments:
Faculty Member of World Economic Forum and Tony Robbins Business Mastery Series; Visiting
Scholar at Stanford University, JFK University and the Advanced Investment Counsel program at the University of Chicago/RW Baird.
Forbes Magazine's Top 100 - "venture investor with the 'Midas' touch." Mark served as an early advisor to Stanford's Real-time Venture Design Lab. He is an active angel investor.
Executive and Board Positions:
Senior Vice President, Customer Experience - for Schwab client accounts totaling $10 billion;
Chief Communications Officer - reporting to Charles R. Schwab; Executive Producer -
Schwab.com - at the time one of the world's top 3 top e-commerce sites; Chairman of the Board
- Integration, a Sequoia funded firm sold to Silicon Labs; Chairman - Rioport, popularized the mp3 player before the iPod; Chairman of VMAX - a marketing technology company that held the exclusive license for China with Micron Computer; Board of Directors - Drucker Institute (Leader-to-Leader); former director of Best Buy, Korn Ferry, Interwoven, etc.
Leadership Development in Over 20 Industries - Mark's ability to draw out the relevant personal and business lessons in hundreds of interviews (from factory workers and shift managers to scientists, educators and Nobel laureates, CEOs, entrepreneurs and bilionaires) are the foundation for the international bestseller Success Built to Last.
Philanthropy:
A graduate of Stanford, Mark has a passion for educational media. In 2008, he established the first digital recording and post-production studio for John F. Kennedy University. In 2009, he created the world's first CRM scholarship program at JFKU. He is a benefactor of ParisTech and the Leader to Leader (Drucker) Institute training programs, and serves on the board of Heartland Circle and the Kitchen Sisters/National Public Radio programs.
"Mark Thompson's inspiring message is just what your leadership team needs! He customizes his keynotes to provide actionable ideas and insight for your organization." - Susanne Lyons, Chief Marketing Officer, VISA -
"Success Built to Last" delivers a meaningful, 'secret-formula' for success based on the lives of real people."
- Sir Richard Branson, Virgin Brands -
"Business leadership coach Mark Thompson, bestselling author of "Success Built to Last" at Stanford, launched a worldwide Thought Leadership Series starting with Ford Motor Company and the Leader to Leader Institute, along with Proctor & Gamble CEO AG Lafley, Jim Collins, Frances Hesselbein, Marshall Goldsmith and many more to come. These are wonderful!!!!.....
Thank you Mark!!...so special to work together with you!
- Alan Mulally, CEO Ford Motor Company -
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