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Mark Thompson

Mark Thompson

Mark C. Thompson is the World’s #1 Leadership Coach for Transformational Growth, Team Engagement and Driving Change, according to the American Management Association.

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  • $25,000 - $40,000
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  • Business
  • Business Growth
  • CEO
  • Change
  • Leadership
  • Productivity
  • Success
  • Teamwork/Teambuilding
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Experience

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  • Corporate
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Career

  • 19 Years
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  • About

    Mark C. Thompson is the World’s #1 Leadership Coach for Transformational Growth, Team Engagement and Driving Change, according to the American Management Association.

    Dr. Thompson is an expert on executive leadership, business strategy, and innovation who has spent over 25 years leading teams and building companies from the ground up. He delivers actionable, valuable and practical advice for leaders at all levels of an organization.

    New York Times bestselling author Mark C. Thompson is a leadership coach for the world’s fastest-growing, most innovative companies—from LYFT CEO & Cofounder Logan Green, Pinterest Cofounder Evan Sharp and World Bank CEO Dr. Jim Kim, to founders Richard Branson, Steve Jobs and Charles Schwab, for whom he served as the world’s first CXO—Chief Customer Experience Officer.

    Forbes Magazine says Mark has the ‘Midas’ touch as a sought-after coach, speaker and venture investor. His New York Times bestselling books include: ADMIRED: 21 Ways to Double Your Value; Now Build a Great Business; and Success Built to Last – Creating a Life that Matters, Mark is also an Innovation Leadership columnist for Forbes.com, Inc.com and FastCompany.com. His most recent bestseller ADMIRED is a primer on how the world’s “Most Admired Companies” achieve long-term success and growth as well as the qualities that are common to “Most Admired Leaders”.

    Mark was Charles Schwab’s former Chief of Staff and Chief Customer Experience Officer, and the Executive Producer of Schwab.com which today has assets over $3 Trillion. He is a co-founding advisor of Sir Richard Branson’s Entrepreneurship Centres.

    Mark is a founding advisor of the Stanford Realtime Venture Design Lab, and served as a visiting scholar at his alma mater, Stanford University, and adjunct faculty at the World Economic Forum, World Business Forum, and John F. Kennedy University.

    A successful venture capitalist over the last two decades, Mark was as an early investor in companies like Facebook, Netflix and founding board member of Esurance. He has been a Board Member for many well-known technology, biotech and retail companies, including: Best Buy, Korn Ferry, and Interwoven (now owned by HP). He was the Chairman of the Board for Rioport, which popularized the MP3 player prior to the iPod.

    Among Mark’s passions are music and Broadway. Mark serves as a founding Board of Directors member for Smule, the top music app company on iTunes which has over 125 million users worldwide. As a Broadway producer, Mark’s plays have earned ten nominations and five Tony Awards.

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    Keynote | Educational | Inspirational | Technical

    How do you convince your team not only to embrace change but actually lead the transformation now – with urgency? In this exciting keynote and seminar, Mark shares insights and video from world-class companies that at first struggled with change and then reinvented their business.

    • What 3 factors galvanize change in every person?
    • How do world-class teams generate unstoppable growth?
    • What 5 Customer Service strategies are Built to Last?
    • How do you grow leaders from Good to Great –Level 1 to 5– what are the steps necessary for developing teams?

    Keynote | Educational | Inspirational | Technical

    In this high-impact keynote, Mark reveals the 3 critical drivers of influence for every great business and high-performance leaders.

    • 5 Mistakes That Cut Sales in Half.
    • Helping clients understand the cost of ignoring your offer.
    • What Does Your Market Crave? Five Tools To Double Sales: Positioning–Pain–Promise–Proof–Planning.

    Keynote | Educational | Inspirational | Technical

    How can your team become the “Most Admired” in your industry? Mark shares his new study (with Stanford and Northwestern researchers) revealing what Highly Engaged Employees admire and value in companies, teams and leaders.

    • What 8 Leadership Traits engage top performers most?
    • What 21 tools will double the value you provide customers?
    • How can you become the MVP of your team?
  • Testimonials
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    “It's been terrific to have you with us, you found the topics, the images and stories, and the very words that we needed to hear from an outsider, all this in a warm and very inspiring way. I found the participation and engagement very high during your speech, and everyone was so complimentary after.”

    Recticel Olivier C.
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    “I've had the pleasure and the privilege of being in the audience with you Mark, today. It was an inspiration. The observation of the people that you've worked for, the experiences that you've got, the way that you bring that to life with such clarity, humor, and passion and energy, was really quite inspiring. It made a big difference to me and I know the members of my team here today. So, it was fantastic and if I get a chance to come and see you again, I'll be taking that opportunity. Thank you. Thank you. It was really truly remarkable.”

    Xerox Darren C.
It's been terrific to have you with us, you found the topics, the images and stories, and the very words that we needed to hear from an outsider, all this in a warm and very inspiring way. I found the participation and engagement very high during your speech, and everyone was so complimentary after.
Recticel Olivier C.