CHIEF EXECUTIVE ALLIANCEMARK C. THOMPSONARE YOU CEO READY?
STAR CEO Academy

Are You CEO Ready?

Strategic Transition Acceleration & Readiness (STAR) CEO Academy

  1. STAR Academy for Boards, CEOs and CPOs

    Choosing your next CEO is your Board's riskiest decision. Don't wait for a firedrill or relegate this process to the assessment psychologists and headhunters who have never run a company! Assess your Board's Readiness with Nasdaq's Center for Board Excellence under the leadership of Byron Loflin.

  2. STAR Academy for CEO Candidates

    As a candidate for CEO, you're in an assessment process which is rarely entirely transparent—and you are being compared with an elite shortlist of outside competitors for your next promotion—who you don't know about. Boards today are compelled to consider insiders and outsiders who are being groomed by headhunters to leapfrog your candidacy. With all that complexity, don't leave it to chance or wishful thinking that you—the best candidate—will prevail. Join world's #1 CEO Coach Mark Thompson, Marshall Goldsmith and Byron Loflin, founder and head of Nasdaq Board Excellence to learn insights from elite chief executives who will transform your chance to become CEO.

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  • The Home Depot
  • Ford
  • AT&T
  • IBM
  • Campbell's
  • Qualcomm
  • Wells Fargo
  • Pfizer
  • DuPont
  • Johnson & Johnson
  • Sherwin-Williams
  • Motorola
  • Procter & Gamble
  • Mercedes-Benz
  • Mastercard
  • Nasdaq

Past Academy Events

  • Chief Executive Alliance CEO Mark Thompson lead Kraft Heinz CEO Carlos Abrams-Rivera and CHRO Melissa Wernick in discussion about the CEO – CHRO relationship at the SHRM Executive Network 2024
  • Chief Executive Alliance CEO Mark Thompson keynoted SHRM GCC 2024 and hosted Vodafone Business CEO Vinod Kumar and Engro Chair Hussain Dawood in roundtables with CEOs, CHROs and Board members.
  • Chief Executive Alliance CEO Mark Thompson hosted 2024 ATD GCC Summit with Dr. Marshall Goldsmith, Ramy Jallad, CEO, Ras Al Khaimah Economic Zone & Saeed Alghafri CEO Emirates Steel talking about leadership development.
  • Chief Executive Alliance CEO Mark Thompson keynoted 10th Annual Abu Dhabi GOV HR Summit with His Excellency Al Shorafa, Chairman of Etihad and ADEO focusing on growth and innovation.
  • Chief Executive Alliance CEO Mark Thompson hosted 2024 Dubai Burj Khalifa CEO Forum and HR Tech Panels with leaders from UAE, India and MENA, in collaboration with Dr. Marshall Goldsmith.
  • Chief Executive Alliance CEO Mark Thompson keynoted The Annual CoachSource Forum focusing on The CEO LifeCycle and Succession planning best practices.
  • Chief Executive Alliance CEO Mark Thompson keynoted Global Gurus NY Reception with at our Manhattan apartment with winners of every Global Gurus category.
  • Chief Executive Alliance CEO Mark Thompson interviewed @NASDAQ by Byron Loflin, Head of Board Excellence at NASDAQ, hosted Mark Thompson (Click image to watch)
  • Chief Executive Alliance CEO Mark Thompson hosted @JA Nobel Nomination Dinner – for Junior Achievement’s nomination for the Nobel Peace Prize.
  • Chief Executive Alliance CEO Mark Thompson hosted CEO panels at @ World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, and served on the WEForum’s Securities Markets Committees.
  • Chief Executive Alliance Managing Director Dr. Bonita Thompson and CEO Mark Thompson keynoted Conference Board Conference 2022 annual Executive Coaching Redefined Summit with epic CEOs.
  • Chief Executive Alliance CEO Mark Thompson keynoted Stanford CEO Summit 2020-2021. During the pandemic, Mark and Marshall lead 700 hours of CEO virtual meetings with leaders like HP CEO Enrique Lores
  • Chief Executive Alliance CEO Mark Thompson lead Silicon Valley Leadership Accelerator 2019 at Google, Pinterest, Apple, Nvidia, Intel, Cisco and more.
  • Chief Executive Alliance CEO Mark Thompson keynoted Silicon Slopes 2019 – 20,000 attendees including Aicha Evans, CEO of Zoox, and Wim Elfrink, of Cisco.
  • Chief Executive Alliance CEO Mark Thompson keynoted Intel Conference 2018 with More than 100 CLevel executives in Silicon Valley featuring Vanderbilt faculty Dr. Bonita Thompson.
  • Chief Executive Alliance CEO Mark Thompson created and lead Pinterest Conference 2019 with Co-Founders Evan Sharp and Ben Silbermann with 100 CEOs at the Pinterest HQ.
  • Chief Executive Alliance CEO Mark Thompson lead Napa Valley CEO Summit 2019 with CEOs and C-Level executives focusing on Leadership in AI, Cybersecurity, Innovation.
  • Chief Executive Alliance CEO Mark Thompson lead Zero G CEO Event 2019 with Evan Sharp, Co-Founder of Pinterest and Hewlett Packard CEO Enrique Lores.
  • Chief Executive Alliance CEO Mark Thompson keynoted Lyft CEO Event 2019 with CEO and Founder of Lyft, Logan Green, with venture capitalists and board members.
  • Chief Executive Alliance CEO Mark Thompson lead Hewlett Packard CEO Salon 2019 with Enrique Lores, CEO of HP, where Mark hosted CEOs at the original “garage”
  • Chief Executive Alliance CEO Mark Thompson keynoted World Business Forum 2019 with Richard Branson, Founder of Virgin, and more than 100 entrepreneurs.
  • Chief Executive Alliance CEO Mark Thompson keynoted Berkshire Hathaway Conference 2018. Inspired by Warren Buffett and attended by investors and CEOs globally.
  • Chief Executive Alliance CEO Mark Thompson keynoted LEAP Coaching Summit 2019 CEO a summit and workshop over 3 days with clients in Park City Utah.
  • Chief Executive Alliance CEO Mark Thompson keynoted Harvard McLean School of Medicine Institute of Coaching Event where Mark served as Co-Chairman for two years.