What Crispin Thompson talks about

Developing Leaders Outside Headquarters: building global pipelines and cultural fluency

Too many multinationals treat overseas managers as tokens rather than true leaders-and the damage shows up in disengagement, attrition, and stalled growth. Crispin has seen this firsthand leading…

Developing Global Leadership Pipelines: Why talent outside headquarters disengages, and how to promote it meaningfully

Crispin Thompson has led teams in Mexico, Poland, Romania and across wider Europe, and he keeps seeing the same pattern: overseas managers promoted for appearances while the real decisions stay at…

Developing Leaders Outside Headquarters: why promotion decisions favour proximity, and how to build sponsorship across regions

Crispin Thompson ran international teams across Mexico, Poland, Romania, India and the U.S. for more than 25 years, and watched capable managers hit an invisible limit the moment a promotion had to…

Executive Presence and the Self-Image Gap: why the leader in your head is not the one your team experiences, and how to close the gap

Most managers rehearse a version of themselves that only they can hear. Twenty-five years running international teams at Hewlett Packard Enterprise, TaskUs and QSC showed Crispin Thompson the same…

Closing the Confidence Gap After Promotion: Why capable managers stall in new leadership roles, and the practical shifts that fix it

Crispin Thompson has watched strong managers get promoted and then quietly stop rising, across 25 years running large international teams at Hewlett Packard Enterprise, TaskUs, and QSC. Companies…

Deciding With Incomplete Information: How leaders make confident calls under pressure, built around a WWII case study in decisive leadership

Crispin Thompson coaches executives to make calls before the data is complete, drawing on 25 years leading transformation programs at Hewlett Packard Enterprise, TaskUs, and QSC. Most leaders believe…