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In addition to consulting with corporate, non-profit, and government clients, Thompson is a Marketing and Social Media Adjunct Professor teaching MBA and undergraduate students at domestic and international universities. In the U.S., she has guest lectured at the Harvard Faculty Club, USC, and UCLA Extension. She has taught courses in Social Media, Marketing Theory, Marketing Management, and Digital Marketing at California Lutheran University, Thousand Oaks, CA, Woodbury University, Burbank, CA, and Social Media Marketing for the Luxury Leisure Industry at Vatel University, Los Angeles, CA. Her international educational presentations have taken her to Hanze University, The Netherlands, Jos University, Nigeria, Halifax College, Canada, the University of Havana, Cuba and IBSA Vienna, Austria. Thompson has also conducted social media marketing presentations for Mercedes-Benz/China executives, government officials from Jiangsu Province, China, and a webinar for professionals in Moscow, Russia. She created and oversaw a humanitarian project in conjunction with War Child, Bishop Desmond TuTu’s Peace Center, and both Hanze and Woodbury Universities by developing a video game to help children heal from post-traumatic stress suffered in war-torn regions of Sudan.

Thompson is the co-author of The Power of Real-Time Social Media Marketing by McGraw-Hill Professional. She can be heard as a social media subject-matter expert on KNX Radio in Los Angeles. A much sought-after speaker on the subject of real-time social media, her public and private corporate audiences have included the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, Disney Cable Networks, CBS Radio, and numerous Bar Associations. She has advised the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce, the nation’s second-largest COC, and its members on the strategic use of social media for business growth. She also spearheaded a national social media research study for the City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs Public Art Division on the national use of social media for branding and citizen engagement.

Thompson is a native Southern Californian and graduated with honors from California State University, Long Beach. With extended family throughout the area, she resides in the Los Angeles area of Southern California.