Hamish Thomson, seasoned global executive, board director, start-up adviser, and author, shares insights from his latest book: "It's Not Always Right To Be Right," an autobiographical account of business and personal insight from 30 years of corporate experience. Learn leadership lessons from 17 leading international business experts you can apply to be more successful n business and life.
Hamish Tomson
A New Zealander by birth, Hamish Thomson is a seasoned global leadership executive. In a 30-year career, he has been a successful CEO/Regional President and Global Brand head for Mars Incorporated (UK, Australia and Chicago), a senior marketing and sales lead for Reebok International (England and the Netherlands) and a fresh-faced account executive in the London advertising scene. A board and start-up adviser, consultant, speaker and investor, he is the author of the internationally released leadership book, “It’s not always right to be right” – an autobiographical account of leadership and personal lessons relating to breakthrough and transformation. Hamish is also a Board Director of one of Australia’s leading men’s mental health non for- profit organisations, OzHelp. He currently resides in Sydney, Australia with his wife and three children.
His passion within innovation and creativity derives primarily from an innate dissatisfaction with the status quo of business performance – even when results are thriving. Regardless of best in class innovation management processes, blueprints and templates, unless there is an internal mindset and culture of external perspective and insatiable curiosity, seldom will breakthrough results be enduring. Frustratingly, he has often learned this the hard way. He lists his most notable disruptive experiences as pertaining to sports to sports fashion, pet food to pet services, confections to impulse, food to shared relationships, and multi-national corporates to start-up entrepreneurial mentality.More at: www.hamishrthomson.com
