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Marshall Goldsmith      

Executive Educator & Coach; Best-Selling Author of "What Got You Here Won’t Get You There"

Dr. Marshall Goldsmith has been recognized as one of the Top Ten Business Thinkers in the World and the top-rated executive coach at the Thinkers50 ceremony in London since 2011. Published in 2015, his book Triggers is a Wall Street Journal and New York Times #1 Bestseller! He’s also the author of New York Times best seller and #1 Wall Street Journal Business Book What Got You Here Won’t Get You There, winner of the Harold Longman Award as Best Business Book of the Year.

With a PhD from UCLA, Marshall is a pioneer 360-degree feedback as a leadership development tool. His early efforts in providing feedback and then following-up with executives to measure changes in behavior were precursors to what eventually evolved as the field of executive coaching.

With nearly 40 years of hands-on experience, Marshall Goldsmith is the leading expert on leadership and coaching for behavioral change.

Speech Topics


Achieving Happiness & Self-Acceptance in a Crazy World

Effectively Influencing Up: Changing What You Can Change & Making Peace with What You Cannot Change

Global Leadership: The Next Generation

Coaching for Leadership

Helping Successful Leaders Get Even Better

Managers as Mentors: Building Partnerships for Learning

In this exciting and innovative program, Marshall Goldsmith offers proven principles on how to grow in today’s tumultuous organizations. Emphasizing the mentor as a learning catalyst with the protégé, rather than simply a disperser of knowledge, he discusses such issues as the role of mentoring in spurring innovation and mentoring a diverse and dispersed workforce accustomed to interacting digitally. Goldsmith shares with audiences the Mentor’s Toolkit, six resources to help in developing the mentor-protégé relationship. Attendees will leave better equipped to be the confident coaches that are integral to learning organizations.

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Executive Coaching

Goldsmith is one of the world's most accomplished and in-demand executive coaches. He is very selective in choosing clients and will personally work with a maximum of eight clients at any one time. His coaching process is unique; he defines success and "better" not by his or his individual clients' qualifications, but by measurable positive change in pre-selected leadership behaviors as determined by pre-selected key stakeholders. Goldsmith's clients range from CEOs to C-level executives whose work is critically important to an organization.

What Got You Here Won't Get You There

How do successful leaders become even more successful? By following practical strategies from Marshall Goldsmith, one of the world's leading executive coaches. This session will help you understand the unique challenges faced by successful people, and learn proven, research based tools for developing yourself and coaching others. Goldsmith will explain how to implement "feed-forward", a positive, focused tool for improvement, and understand the latest innovations in peer coaching. As long as you have the commitment, Goldsmith has the guide for mastering change and finding more happiness and meaning--at work and home, and with the important people in your life.

  • Helping Successful Leaders Get Even Better
  • Coaching for Leadership
  • Global Leadership: The Next Generation
  • Globalization: A Nightmare or a Dream Come True
  • Effectively Influencing Up: Changing What You Can Change and Making Peace with What You Cannot Change
  • Achieving Happiness and Self-Acceptance in a Crazy World
  • Women in Leadership: Unique Challenges and Opportunities

MOJO: How to Get It, How to Keep It, and How to Get It Back If You Lose It

"Mojo" is the feeling we get when we're moving forward, making progress, achieving goals, clearing hurdles, passing the competition--and doing so with increasing ease. Based on his newest book, Marshall Goldsmith discusses the new world of work and shows why mojo is more important than ever before. Goldsmith will reveal how our mojo is impacted by identity, achievement, reputation, and acceptance. By the end of the session, participants will be able to define mojo, measure it, and keep mojo by letting go of the little stuff, avoiding pointless arguments at work, and steering clear of mojo-killers. Free applications will be available to help participants experience more happiness and meaning at work and at home.

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News


Women Leaders: Break 12 Habits That Hold You Back
How Women Rise, a book co-authored by Sally Helgesen and Marshall Goldsmith, is a great resource to discover the 12 habits that hold women back and how ...
THINKERS50 RANKING OF MANAGEMENT THINKERS ANNOUNCED
No. 5. Trigger-happy Supercoach: Marshall Goldsmith, the world-renowned executive coach, completes the top five. An adjunct professor at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College, Goldsmith also picked up the Thinkers50 Distinguished Achievement Award for Leadership with his latest best-selling book – Triggers: Creating Behavior that Lasts; Becoming the Person You Want to Be.
Top-ranked leadership thinker shares coaching philosophy ...
Top leadership coach Marshall Goldsmith. MANILA, Philippines - “Great is the need of the student to learn. Far greater is the need for the teacher to teach.
Marshall Goldsmith to Speak at Hult in Sao Paulo -- SAO PAULO ...
SAO PAULO, April 18, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Marshall Goldsmith, one of the world's leading CEO coaches and recently appointed Distinguished Senior Fellow ...

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