Chairman, Chief Executive Alliance
Ranked World’s #1 CEO Coach by Thinkers50, and NY Times bestselling author
Mark Thompson is ranked the #1 CEO Coach in the world by Thinkers 50 Leading Global Coaches, the American Management Association, and the 2021 Institute of Coaching McLean/Harvard Medical School. He is a three-time chairman and CEO and an honored alumnus of Stanford University. Mark is a founder of the Stanford CEO Summit Series, a New York Times bestselling author, and the first to be selected as a Global Guru in both the Leadership and Coaching categories. In 2022, Mark was among only six leaders in history to be inducted to the Global Gurus Hall of Fame Corps d’Elite.
With over 30 years’ operating experience, Mark focuses on new CEO readiness for more than 85 boards of directors. He specializes in high-profile leaders and celebrity CEOs, including Virgin Group founder Sir Richard Branson, Google founder Larry Page, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, World Bank CEO Jim Kim, and Charles Schwab.
Succession Planning in the C-Suite
Friday, August 25, 2023
5:30pm – 6:15pm (New York)