DR. MARK THOMPSON
Chief Executive Officer, CEO Academy
New York City | Member since 2023
Mark is Chief Executive Officer of the CEO Academy, a SHRM company in partnership with McKinsey and Wharton. He is the World's #1 CEO Coach as ranked by Global Gurus Hall of Fame and Thinkers50 Global Coaches, and on November 5, 2023 was inducted into the Thinkers50 Coaching Legends Hall of Fame. He advises CEOs and Boards on C-Suite READINESS and Succession as Chairman and cofounder of The Chief Executive Alliance, the world's leading CEO Growth Leadership collaborative.
Reporting to Chairman and founder Charles Schwab, he served as the world's first CxO at a Fortune 500 Company - Chief Customer Experience Officer - leading production for Schwab.com, the world's #1 online financial services platform with assets over $3.4 trillion.
Mark has served as CEO Coach & Board Advisor for more than 85 CEO & C-Suite Readiness engagements including Momofuku, Schwab, Luminar, Virgin, Amazon|Zoox, Google|Waymo, World Bank, US Ventures, Kraft Heinz, Abbvie, Sweetwater, Enavate, T-Mobile (more below). Forbes Magazine described Mark as having the ‘Midas Touch'.
With Charles 'Chuck' Schwab as his first investor, Mark served as Chairman of Integration.com (acquired by SiliconLabs); and as founding investor and advisor to Esurance.com (now Allstate); SuperNatural (now Meta) and dozens of growth companies launched at the Stanford University Realtime Venture Design Lab. Mark earned his Masters degree in symbolic systems|social media tech and then served as a Stanford Visiting Scholar with Prof Cliff Nass. He was Co-Chair of the Institute of Coaching at Harvard | McLean School of Medicine (2018, 2019, 2021).
He is a cofounding advisor of Sir Richard Branson’s Entrepreneurship Center and has also served as adjunct faculty at the World Economic Forum, World Business Forum, receiving the John F. Kennedy School Lifetime Achievement Award at the University's Institute of Entrepreneurial Leadership. He is a Chancellor for JA University serving Junior Achievement's 10 million kids in 2022 -- JA was nominated for the 2022 & 2023 Nobel Peace Prize.
Mark's NY Times bestselling books include ADMIRED; Success Built to Last: Creating a Life That Matters; and Now Build a Great Business. His articles are published in Harvard Business Review, INC, FastCompany and Forbes. Mark is married to Dr. Bonita Thompson, NY Times bestselling author, Global Guru, and Vanderbilt faculty in Organizational Performance & Leadership. They have a daughter. Among their passions is coaching thought leaders and Broadway: Mark has co-produced plays that have earned 11 nominations and five Tony Awards.
