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MARK THOMPSON
CO-AUTHOR OF SUCCESS BUILT TO LAST
Mark Thompson is 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. Thompson helps your team embrace rapid change, ignite growth as leaders and engage with influential customers who are driving the future of your brand.
As an executive coach and producer of leadership programs, Thompson is passionate about unlocking the unique insights and skills of hundreds of remarkable people around the world—from executives, entrepreneurs, nonprofit leaders and billionaires, to the presidents of nations and the leaders of small and large organizations.
Thompson’s ability to draw out the relevant personal and business stories from thought leader interviews formed the foundation for our 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.
Thompson’s interviews and insightful stories about meeting hundreds of remarkable people formed the foundation for the book, Success Built to Last. He is audiobook executive producer for Hidden Kitchens in 2005 and the Peabody award-winning Lost & Found Sound series on National Public Radio in 2004.
Forbes magazine included Thompson on its list of America’s leading venture investors with the “Midas” touch in 2004. He has been an investor and chairman of many technology and media startups. 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.
Thompson 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.
Thompson has been an advisor to Stanford’s Realtime Venture Design Lab (ReVeL), which seeks to improve the potential sustainability of new ventures by helping the founding team discover and articulate a compelling, unified theme based on their identity.
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.
