Top Industrial, Enterprise & Manufacturing Keynote Speaker
Enterprise and Industrial teams, Manufacturing leaders, and Automotive managers rate Mark Thompson Best Keynote Speaker for customer and employee events and sales, service, global supplier, and association meetings.
Ford Case History
America’s iconic Ford family recruited Mark during the dramatic turnaround of the automotive enterprise, supply chain and manufacturing sectors. CEO Alan Mulally, lauded Thompson’s business experience and character:
“Mark is a wonderful person, leader, and coach! Highly recommend him!” —Alan Mulally, CEO, Ford Motors
That means a lot coming from Alan Mulally, a CEO legend for the re-invention of Boeing and Ford, ranked among the world’s top 3 leaders (after the Pope!).
Delphi Case History
Thompson “hit the perfect notes” and was “spot on target” for their management and the sales team because it was customized to focus on the company’s specific challenges and opportunities for leading transformational change, accelerating growth and igniting re-invention.
CEO Kevin Clark and his team leapt to a standing ovation to acknowledge Mark for the Best Keynote at their Annual Global Management Summit and executive meetings.
Delphi Director (and Event leader) wrote, “Wow! Thanks, Mark! You were a smash hit. Please come back!” (See testimonials)
Tata, Maruti Susuki and Recticel Case History
Leading global brands select Thompson as their business innovation keynote for their leadership team and top customers, vendors and suppliers—the entire value chain.
Following interviews with the management team, Mark was tasked with the goal to influence profitable innovation and build a culture of sustainable quality. Most important, Mark ignited a companywide commitment to sustainable customer-centric focus through better employee engagement, talent management and accountability by their teams in India, Asia, Europe, North America and the United Arab Emirates (UAE).
If you would like a standing ovation from your CEO, be careful to avoid canned generic presentations by authors and pundits who lack business leadership knowledge about your industry.
Meeting planners, speaker’s bureaus and management teams love Mark’s insistence on interviewing your clients, audience members and stakeholders BEFORE your event in order to assure relevance and support for a successful meeting.
Automotive, manufacturing technology and supply chain leaders at global brands look to Mark Thompson for insightful coaching and inspiring keynotes because he’s among the few Forbes’ Venture Investors with the ‘Midas’ Touch who’s bet on disruptive growth strategies and who shares a deep understanding as an operating executive with P&L responsibility leading distributed global teams in a historic time of unprecedented competition, increasing complexity and accelerating change.
More than any other time in history, the boss and customers demand both inspiration AND extraordinary subject matter expertise from a fellow CEO who’s built and run great businesses in times of chaotic change.
Mark’s insights about the automotive, global supply chain and manufacturing sector, along with his business experience as a Silicon Valley disrupter, a bestselling researcher at the Stanford University Venture Design Lab and his role as the Fortune 500’s first-ever Chief Customer Experience Officer, make him the best keynote speaker to assure success at your event.