A world authority in helping successful leaders achieve positive, measurable change in behavior: for themselves, their people and their teams.

Marshall Goldsmith is a coach to top executives in many of the world’s leading companies, a prominent speaker and educator, and the well-known author of many books and articles on leadership. He is one of the foremost authorities on how to help leaders achieve positive, measurable changes in their own behavior and in the behavior of their people and teams.

In his coaching career, Dr. Goldsmith has worked with over 70 CEOs and their management teams. He continues to conduct workshops for executives, high-potential leaders and HR professionals. Recently, the American Management Association named Dr. Goldsmith as one of the 50 greatest thinkers and business leaders who have most influenced the field of management. Forbes named him as one of the five most-respected executive coaches. Dr. Goldsmith also contributes a regular column to Fast Company.

In 2004, Dr. Goldsmith joined Katzenbach Partners LLC, a leading consulting firm focused on organizational performance, to found Marshall Goldsmith Partners LLC. Marshall Goldsmith Partners is the first executive coaching firm to provide large companies with a consistent, proven process that can deliver measurable change in the behavior of leaders at all levels of the organization. Marshall Goldsmith Partners coaches utilize the Goldsmith Coaching Process™, which enables a leader to focus on achieving positive, measurable change in those behaviors that can most significantly impact their business performance and their impact on the people around them. The effectiveness of this approach has been demonstrated empirically with thousands of leaders, enabling Marshall Goldsmith Partners to offer its clients an arrangement in which they only pay when there are measurable results.

Dr. Goldsmith’s work has received recognition from the Academy of Management, the Institute for Management Studies, the American Society for Training and Developing, the Center for Creative Leadership, the Conference Board and the Human Resource Planning Society. He serves on the faculty of the executive education programs at Dartmouth and the University of Michigan. He has authored 18 books, including the best-selling The Leader of the Future. For 10 years, Dr. Goldsmith served as a Board Member at the Peter Drucker Foundation. He also donates a substantial amount of time to non-profit organizations. He has been selected as an American Red Cross “National Volunteer of the Year.”

Dr. Goldsmith holds a B.S. degree from Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, an MBA from Indiana University and a PhD. from U.C.L.A.

Areas of Expertise

• Developing customized Leader of the Future profiles that describe the desired behaviors (or competencies) of future leaders in the organization
• Designing customized 360° Leader of the Future inventories that reinforce leadership profiles
• Delivering leadership training that helps leaders align their behaviors with their organization's Leader of the Future profile
• Providing top-rated leadership training for high-potential leaders
• Coaching for leadership that ensures executives achieve and sustain long-term, positive behavioral change
• Teaching leaders to become great coaches
• Building teamwork through our unique process of "team building without time wasting"
• Following-up and measuring the results of coaching or training through the mini-survey process
• Maintaining a worldwide network of coaching resources to help address our clients' leadership development needs (at many levels and price points)
• Delivering keynote speeches on leadership and coaching for professional associations, executive groups and human resource organizations.

University Executive Education Programs - Instructor

Dartmouth University - The Tuck Global Leaders Program, Global Leadership 20/20

University of Michigan - The Human Resources Executive Program, The Advanced Human Resources Executive Program

Education

B.S. Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, 1970 (Mathematical Economics)

M.B.A. Indiana University, 1972 (Marketing and Management)

Ph.D. UCLA, 1977 (Graduate School of Management - now Andersen, Organizational Behavior) - Chancellor's Fellow and Beta Gamma Sigma (Management Honorary)

References

"Of the 100’s of world class speakers we use at our global conferences, Marshall Goldsmith is consistently rated by our attendees among the best. His charismatic style makes it practical, fun, and interactive."

Philip J. Harkins, President and CEO, Linkage, Inc.

"Dr. Marshall Goldsmith’s expertise is extraordinary, his presentation skills among the most dynamic and effective anywhere. When Dr. Goldsmith goes to work, with his natural flair and panache, the results is an experience to remember for a long, long time."

Steven Daniel, Ph.D., Director of Program Planning, The Institute for Management Studies

"Your valuable insights on leadership development and the related responsibilities of coaching and mentoring are critical to our general officers and their spouses. These are turbulent times, and the tools and techniques that you shared with them are therefore vitally important as they return to their various commands and leadership responsibilities."

Eric K. Shinseki, Chief of Staff, U.S. Army

"Marshall Goldsmith is a critical part of my custom designed leadership development program for senior executives at Thomson. His segment ends up being perhaps the most transformational during the entire week. Marshall has a unique ability to touch people and to move them to action.

He does it with passion, compassion, and humor. Moreover, his material is based on solid research. I know of no speaker who is more effective with the entire spectrum of listeners, from the front line manager to the CEO, and no one can combine such dynamic content with a dynamite delivery as Marshall can."

Deepak (Dick) Sethi, Director, Executive & Leadership Development, The Thomson Corporation

"While many experts are effective in creating awareness and interest, Marshall addresses the topic personal improvement in such a way which kindles the required motivations to drive to action."

Charles J. Corace, Director, Management Education & Development, Johnson & Johnson

"I have found in working with Marshall Goldsmith that he is a highly engaging and entertaining speaker who teaches practical and actionable ways leaders can get better."

Jack Stoltzfus, Ph.D., Manager of Talent Development, 3M Company

"Marshall’s extensive experience in coaching senior leaders is very evident in the advice he gives on what works and what doesn’t when trying to be a better leader yourself or help someone else.

An outstanding speaker, he uses humour very effectively to get across what are often difficult messages and he does it in a way that even senior executives take it from him. One of our top executives commented that Marshall had been the most powerful influence in his life in recent years."

Rod Brandvold, Vice President, Organizational Development, Cognos Incorporated

"Marshall has guided many of our most seasoned managers into gaining profound insights about themselves. Marshall has a gift of helping people realize they can be themselves and be great leaders, too!

A day with Marshall can help you realize that you do not need to be perfect to be successful. In fact those "flaws" are what makes us human and better people land managersæif we relax and accept them.

No one is better at helping people to refocus on what is truly important in our lives as leaders and as human beings than Marshall.

Ultimately it is the human spirit that drives change and growth in an organization. Marshall helps us understand how we can nurture that spirit."

Chuck Presbury, Director, Executive Learning and Development
Pitney Bowes

"Marshall Goldsmith’s personality, ideas and humor will jump out and grab you—even in cyberspace! Get ready to learn, and to smile, while doing so! His concepts are tested and work at home or on the job. Don’t miss this!"

Beverly Kaye, Career Systems International

Marshall's personal site

Interviews with Marshall