Mark Thompson is one of America's top executive coaches and a sought-after
speaker who has interviewed hundreds of the world's enduringly successful
people from presidents of nations, billionaires, and Olympians, to Academy
Award winners, Nobel laureates, and CEOs.
The coauthor of the international bestseller, Success Built to Last,
he brings to every engagement two decades of experience as a senior
executive, board member, management coach, producer and investor in growing
businesses. Mark helps your team embrace rapid change, ignite growth as leaders
and engage with influential people who are driving the future of your brand.
Mark's ability to draw out the relevant personal and business stories from
thought leader interviews formed the foundation for the book, Success Built
to Last, and also resulted in many audio and video programs, including,
the Charles Schwab CEO series, Women on Leadership, Seven Sacred Secrets with
Maya Angelou, and the DVD program, Creating a Life that Matters.
Honored by Forbes Magazine in 2004 as one of America's leading venture
investors with the "Midas" touch, Mark has served as an investor and chairman
of many startup companies. He worked for a dozen years for Charles Schwab,
serving in a variety of senior roles, including Chief Communications Officer
and, later, as Executive Producer responsible for the customer experience of
Schwab.com.
His company, Integration Associates, was acquired by Silicon Labs for $80
million in 2008.
Mark is a venture investor, management advisor and former board member of
private and public companies. He served as Chairman of Rioport, Inc., which
popularized the MP3 player; he was Chairman of Integration, Inc., a
communications semiconductor company; and Chairman of VMAX, which was the
exclusive distributor of Micron PCs in China. He has been speaker at London
Business School, Stanford University, U.C. Berkeley, The Economist and Fortune
Magazine conferences, The New York Stock Exchange summits with The Churchill
Club and Financial Executives Institute. He served on the Council of The
Heartland Circle Thought Leaders Gatherings.
He is a cofounder of the Stanford Realtime Venture Design Lab and a visiting
scholar at Stanford. Mark has also served as a governor and lecture member at
the prestigious World Economic Forum.
He is a former member of the board of Best Buy Enterprises, Korn Ferry
International, Interwoven and Teletech, and was an advisor to many other
private startups. He served on the board of the National Investor Relations
Institute and Seniornet.com. In 1996 he accepted an appointment to U.S. SEC
Consumer Advisory Council.
He also created the Leaders of the New Century series through his production
company, Network Public Broadcasting International, and was a contributor and
host for CEO and executive interviews for thought leaders programs by Korn
Ferry International and Ernst & Young.
Mark has a passion for education and educational media, particularly for
those in need. He volunteers his time and money to independent producers of
public broadcasting and to classroom and scholarship programs for elementary
and graduate education programs.
Mark provides practical and entertaining insights, and customizes keynotes
for your client using actual video clips and down-to-earth, real-life examples
for his presentations from Richard Branson, Charles Schwab, and Jack Welch, to
Maya Angelou and the Dalai Lama -- from innovative entrepreneurs, CEOs and
billionaires to Nobel laureates, Olympians and Academy award winners.
Mark is a veteran business executive, bestselling author, executive coach
and all of his presentations have an inspirational component. He will customize
a presentation specifically for your event using any and all of the following
successful keynote presentations.
High-Performance Leadership: Supercharging Global
Growth.
How to ignite growth in your highest potential managers and reinvent the way
you think about leadership. Based on hundreds of face-to-face interviews with
the world's most successful leaders, this keynote debunks the myths of
leadership and provides a five-part framework for building emotional and
intellectual commitment from your leaders.
World-class Teamwork: The Six Secrets of World Class
Teams
Most companies understand more about their external customers than what
inspires internal employee teams to be accountable to serving those clients and
meeting the dynamic needs of the organization and rapidly changing markets.
Most companies frankly assume too much about what their teams know (or don't
know) about working together as teams. This keynote will supercharge your team
for long-term growth.
Managing Change: Merger Integration & Cultural
Transformation
In an era of extraordinary change and dynamic markets, Mark reveals the
secret to integrating cultures based on a decade of study by our team of
Stanford, Harvard, Berkeley and Wharton researchers. We've discovered the
difference between those who enjoy long-term success vs. those who must settle
for temporary achievement. The answer lies in an understanding of the five
simple strategic drivers of corporate transformation. This interactive session
shows you how.
Winning Customer Loyalty: From product focus to Customer
Solutions
Winning loyalty from new clients in a rapidly growing and competitive global
economy has never been more challenging. What special traits do the best and
brightest have in common and how do they inspire their organizations to create
"lifecycle" client partnerships that make them inseparable from their
customers?
We launched a global study to find out. In this fascinating and fun
presentation, bestselling author Mark Thompson shares real stories about
extraordinary and not-so-good customer service teams based on two decades as an
executive coach serving many industries, including Dell, Best Buy, Microsoft,
Agilent, from Charles Schwab, MasterCard, VISA, Wells Fargo, Mellon and Bank of
New York.
Entrepreneurship and Innovation
World-class innovation takes more courage than ever before in history. In an
interactive session with the audience, Mark explodes the myths of
entrepreneurship and unravels the essential elements of long-term success,
using video and audio clips of actual personal interviews with some of the
world's most successful entrepreneurs and "intra-preneurs" within
organizations.
Built to Last: From Great to Lasting
One of the three top bestselling business classics in history, Built to Last
reveals the essential differences between organizations that are enduring,
values-based enterprises that will grow for the long haul in a wide range of
industries.
Wealth Built to Last: Enduring Lessons of the World's Richest
Families
In addition to serving as a board member of major public companies and Chief
Communications Officer of Charles Schwab, Mark is a successful investor and
entrepreneur who has worked with and interviewed the world's wealthiest
families, including more than 20 billionaires. How do these people create their
wealth, protect it, grow it and survive the challenges of the super-rich. This
fascinating presentation provides an inside look into wealth management.
Relationships Built to Last/Creating a Life That Matters
Mark has produced personal interviews with hundreds of extraordinary people
who have built long-lasting relationships in a world obsessed with short-term
rewards. This fun and enlightening keynote is based on his extraordinary
research and his interviews for public broadcasting and the bestselling book
and television special Success Built to Last.
