Kevin Thompson

Kevin Thompson is the Co-founder and Managing Director of a new University of Michigan institute dedicated to establishing mental fitness — evidence-based, trainable capacities for emotional regulation — as a foundational discipline in research, education, and practice. Kevin provides operational and strategic leadership across all Institute pillars. He serves concurrently as Adjunct Faculty at the Ross School of Business

Kevin is an internationally recognized social intrapreneur, a First Mover Fellow with the Aspen Institute, and the subject of a Harvard Business School case study.. He has given talks and presentations on every continent and participated in high-level discussions and dialogues with leaders from government, international organizations, and the world’s largest corporations. He has published on topics ranging from cloud computing and green infrastructure to carbon accounting and next generation leadership.

Kevin served as the COO of a global sustainability organization, spent 15 years in management and executive positions at IBM, and was the General Manager for GOOD Worldwide and Upworthy where he had profit and loss responsibility.

Prior to IBM, he spent two years managing a farm and micro enterprise in rural Ghana, West Africa while a US Peace Corps volunteer. Mr. Thompson holds MBA and MS degrees from Cornell University and a BA from the University of Massachusetts in Natural Systems.