Synopsis
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.
Episodes
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Pau Gasol
09/03/2021 Duration: 24minMy guest today is Pau Gasol, NBA Championship Player and two-time Olympic medalist. Pau has played in the National Basketball Association for almost 20 years, starting with the Memphis Grizzlies and later joining the Los Angeles Lakers that won back-to-back NBA championships in 2009 and 2010. He is a six-time NBA All-Star, as well as the first foreign player to be an NBA Rookie of the Year. Pau is also passionate about his philanthropy organization, the Gasol Foundation, that he founded with his brother, Marc Gasol, that works to reduce childhood obesity rates in Spain and the US. I sat down with Pau’s to talk about how he stays focused and present, handles stressful situations and the importance of preparation for all he does.
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Candice Carpenter
08/03/2021 Duration: 16minCandice Carpenter is the Cofounder of one of the biggest mass media companies in the 1990s, iVillage. As a leader in the dot com industry, Candice developed a unique company culture for her organization that was key to her success in scalable growth. She used a method for her employees called "Radical Mentoring" to provide them the feedback they needed to grow at an incredible pace. Candice and I had the opportunity to sit down and talk about the details of her style of mentoring.
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Dr. Rachel Naomi Remen
08/03/2021 Duration: 10minDr. Rachel Naomi Remen is known as the pioneer of Relationship Centered Care and Integrative Medicine. She is an internationally recognized physician, scientist, and author, whose book, Healer’s Art, is required reading in more than half of American medical schools. She has led an incredibly impactful life with her work and research. I sat down with Dr. Remen to talk about how she defines leadership.
