Mark Coopersmith is a Silicon Valley entrepreneur, investor, and global educator who has spent his career launching ventures, building high-growth organizations, and helping thousands of others do the same.
At UC Berkeley and around the world, he teaches, speaks, and writes about entrepreneurship, innovation, and leadership—providing leaders and teams with the insights, inspiration, and know-how to launch new ventures, drive growth, and challenge the status quo.
A former Fortune 500 executive and serial entrepreneur, Mark has built and led organizations from raw startups—his e-commerce and payments venture WebOrder is now part of Google—to new business units at global enterprises like Sony.
He has led teams from 2 to 2,000 and guided efforts to reimagine how innovation happens across sectors.
An active startup investor and mentor, Mark works closely with accelerators and VC firms in Silicon Valley and beyond. His Berkeley students and program alumni have launched hundreds of ventures worldwide.
Image: Mark Coopersmith, Keynote Speaker and Bestselling Author of “The Other ‘F’ Word: How Smart Leaders, Teams, and Entrepreneurs Put Failure to Work”
Mark combines his high-energy, wry and engaging speaking style with a passion for entrepreneurship and innovation, incorporating real-world successes and failures, original insights and frameworks such as the 7 Stage Failure Value Cycle from his book, and practical tools to inspire and focus leaders and teams and help them attain the positive outcomes they seek.
Image: Mark Coopersmith delivering THREE KEYS TO EFFECTIVE CORPORATE ENTREPRENEURSHIP at the Innovation Roundtable Summit in Copenhagen.
For the past 20 years Mark has been a groundbreaking professor at UC Berkeley where he teaches entrepreneurship and innovation to students and executives from around the world. More than 100 new ventures have been launched in his courses and programs. He also is a limited partner in numerous Venture Capital firms, seeing the next generation of groundbreaking technologies, products, and services.
Image: Mark Coopersmith and co-auther John Danner teaching The Other “F” Word at UC Berkeley.
WHAT ARE PEOPLE SAYING?
“Your talk yesterday in front of a standing-room-only crowd at our headquarters was truly exceptional: you engaged the audience so well, had so many relevant examples that drove your points home, and above all the topic and your approach resonated so well with all of us. So many people commented to me afterwards how much they enjoyed your presentation and learned from it. It was the perfect combination of fun and actionable content!”
— Head of Strategy and Business Development, Samsung Electronics
“Thanks for delivering such an interesting and valuable keynote address and breakout session at our annual partner conference. Our participants particularly appreciated the combination of strategic thinking and pragmatic examples and calls-to-action. This is just what we need to accelerate the pace of the change in our still-conservative industry.”
— CEO, global logistics company
“What a great lecture and working session on how to view and treat failure in a positive and constructive way, to accelerate change and innovation. I am taking Mark’s framework right back to my business to change our behavior!”
— COO Global 500 enterprise, at a workshop on The Other “F” Word
MARK’S BOOK “THE OTHER ‘F’ WORD: HOW SMART LEADERS, TEAMS AND ENTREPRENEURS PUT FAILURE TO WORK”
Do you seek innovation, growth and better results?
In your search for success you will almost certainly encounter failures along the way. What separates the winners from the losers over the long run?
In many cases it is their ability to develop a productive relationship with failure: minimizing its damage, extracting new insights, and putting that new knowledge to work. In this highly-praised and ground-breaking book, Mark and his co-author John Danner share insights on how to do just that, drawing on exclusive interviews with leaders of organizations of all sizes, types and stages.
Image: The Other “F” Word: How Smart Leaders, Teams, and Entrepreheurs Put Failure to Work
Practical 7-stage Failure Value Cycle
This research led Mark and John to create a powerful framework and tool in their practical 7-stage Failure Value Cycle (FVC). The FVC helps leaders and organizations avoid failure in the first place, recognize it earlier, reduce its impact, deal with it better when it happens (which it will), and leverage it to drive stronger performance.
Get free samples of the book, the FVC and Failure Report Card below.
Image: Mark Coopersmith at book signing in Malaysia.
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