Mark C. Thompson

Mark  C  Thompson  is  a  world-­renowned  authority  and  top  speaker on Leadership, Driving Change and Innovation, and Sales  Growth  through  Customer  and  Employee  Engagement.  Mark consults for Fortune 500 and Global Fortune 1000 companies,  advising  top  leaders  in  organizations  worldwide  as  well as the executive teams who are leading high growth startup companies  in  Silicon  Valley  today.  Forbes  called  Mark  one  of  Americas Top Venture Investors with the Midas Touch. Mark was recently featured as one of the Worlds Top Executive Coaches  by  the  American  Management  Association  and  #1  thought leader on Innovation and Engagement. He was named one  of  the  Top  30  Communications  Professionals  for  2015  by  Global Gurus.Formerly  Charles  Schwab's  Chief  of  Staff  and  Chief  Customer  Experience  Officer,  Mark  was  the  Executive Producer of Schwab.com which today has assets over $2.4 Trillion. He is a co-­founder of Sir Richard Bransons Entrepreneurship Centres and an advisor to Virgin Unite Entrepreneurs. He has recently been asked to join The World Bank Advisory Council as their key authority on growth and innovation. Mark is a founding advisor of the Stanford Realtime Venture Design Lab, and is a visiting scholar at his alma mater, Stanford University. He has served as faculty at the World Economic Forum and World  Business  Forum,  is  a  member  of  the  Clinton  Initiative,  and  an  executive  coach  for  TED  Fellows. Mark  is  a  New  York  Times  bestselling  author,  an  executive  coach,  a  venture  capitalist  and  an  Innovation Leadership columnist for Forbes.com, Inc.com and FastCompany.com. His books include:  ADMIRED:  21  Ways  to  Double  Your  Value;  Now  Build  a  Great  Business;  and  Success  Built to Last -­ Creating a Life that Matters. His most recent bestseller ADMIRED is a primer on how the "Most Admired Companies" achieve long-­term success and growth as well as research on the qualities that are common to the Worlds "Most Admired Leaders and most important to their most engaged employees. Among Marks passions are music and Broadway.  Mark  serves  as  a  founding  Board  of  Directors  member for Smule, the top music app company on iTunes. As a Broadway producer, Marks plays have  earned  five  Tony  Awards  and  ten  nominations,  including  Peter  and  the  StarCatcher  with  Disney, and StickFly with Alicia Keys. Mark lives in the San Francisco Bay Area and in Manhattan with two extraordinary women his wife Bonita and their daughter Vanessa.