I always knew that Bonita was a highly regarded executive coach, an effective teacher and a renowned HR expert. I didn't realize until I saw her speak what a riveting presence she is on stage. She's eloquent, persuasive, a great story teller (as she accepted the 2019 Business Leader of the Year Award at Harvard Club NYC.) Within minutes, she had the audience in the palm of her hand. It was impressive.
Bonita Thompson
Award Winning Business Leader and NYT Bestselling Author
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Bonita Thompson
Biography
Bonita Thompson is the 2019 Business Leader of the Year, Harvard Club NYC (GC4W) Global Connections for Women--awarded for her Leadership Innovation and Workforce Reinvention at Bank of America, Levi Strauss, Genentech, Virgin Unite, Varian, Pacific Telesis and The World Bank. Bonita motivates and accelerates growth and change with her first-person professional experience as a global executive. Her books and keynotes inspire audiences with emotional storytelling that engage people to embrace innovation and transformation.
As a rare award-winning Woman Business Leader, Bonita is today's ideal keynote: (1) Corporate Executive for 30 years who understands your corporate transformation at global companies, (2) Research Director for the World Success Survey at Wharton, and Adjunct Faculty at Institute of Coaching at Harvard and John F. Kennedy School and (3) New York Times Bestselling Leadership Author of Admired: 21 Ways to Double Your Value.
At Bank of America, she energized employees with a global transformation of 100,000 jobs using people analytics and inspiring examples of ordinary employees embracing extraordinary change.
At Levi Strauss, she empowered employees as project manager on five continents with the launch of the world's first corporate HR INTRANET. Bonita helped launch the Institute for Contemporary Leadership and served on the Board of the Drucker/Hesselbein Leader to Leader Institute. She holds an MBA from U.C. Berkeley and is a doctoral fellow in Educational Psychology at the University of Pennsylvania.
Bonita Thompson
Featured Keynote Programs
Creating Value As You Transform Your Organization
• Three Surprising Ways to Accelerate Your Internal Transformation
• Six Tools to Create Value with Change Agents & Critical Stakeholders
• Inspiring Stories of Ordinary People Delivering Extraordinary Impact
Building Bridges
Energizing Diverse Leaders, Partners & Teams
• How to Embrace & Harvest Diversity of Thought & Inclusion
• Redefining Collaboration in Times of Chaos & Change
• Managing Overwhelming Change Across Time Zones & Cultures
Create *Build* Solve Innovation Workshop
• How the world’s top innovators discover, manage and measure what matters
• Two to six-hour seminars helping teams learn how to disruption, reinvent and innovate in organizations.
• Dr. Bon customizes your leadership workshop based on her research that has earned citations of Special Recognition by U.S. Congress and State of California for her creative STEM education programs.