Marshall Goldsmith

World-Renowned Thought Leader in Leadership Development, Executive Coaching, and Human Resources
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  • Named “World’s #1 Leadership Thinker” by Harvard Business Review
  • Author of three New York Times best-sellers
  • Motivational coach inspiring audiences to improve behavior and achieve success
  • Completely rethinks employee engagement and human resources

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Dr. Goldsmith is a member of the Thinkers 50 Hall of Fame.  He is the only two-time Thinkers 50 #1 Leadership Thinker in the World. He has been ranked as the World’s #1 Executive Coach and Top Ten Business Thinker for eight years. Marshall was chosen as the inaugural winner of the Lifetime Award for Leadership by the Harvard Institute of Coaching.

Dr. Goldsmith, a New York Times #1 bestselling author, has written or edited 43 books which have sold over 2.5 million copies, been translated into 32 languages, and become listed bestsellers in 12 countries.  Amazon recently recognized the ‘100 Best Leadership & Success Books Ever Written’ - and included Marshall’s Triggers and What Got You Here Won’t Get You There.  H is the only living author with two books on the list.  His other bestsellers include: MOJO, Succession: Are You Ready?, The Leader of the Future and How Women Rise (with lead author, Sally Helgesen).

Marshall’s professional acknowledgements include: Global Gurus - Corps D ’Elite Award for Lifetime Contribution in both Leadership and Coaching, Harvard Business Review - World’s #1 Leadership Thinker, Institute for Management Studies - Lifetime Achievement Award for Leadership Education, American Management Association - 50 great thinkers who have influenced the field of management and BusinessWeek - 50 great leaders in America.   He is featured in the New Yorker profile, “The Better Boss” and the documentary movie, “The Earned Life”.

Dr. Goldsmith served as a Professor of Management Practice at the Dartmouth Tuck School of Business.  His Ph.D. is from UCLA’s Anderson School of Management - where he was the Distinguished Alumnus of the Year.  His MBA is from Indiana University’s Kelley School of Business - where he was the Distinguished Entrepreneur of the Year.  He is one of a select few executive coaches who has worked with over 200 major CEOs and their management teams. He served on the Advisory Board of the Peter Drucker Foundation for ten years. He has been a volunteer teacher for US Army Generals, Navy Admirals, Girl Scout executives, and leaders of the International and American Red Cross – where he was a National Volunteer of the Year.

Dr. Goldsmith has over 1.3 million followers on LinkedIn and over 3 million views on YouTube. People from around the world have viewed, read, listened to, downloaded, or shared his resources tens of millions of times.

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Triggering Lasting Change

Personal Growth Comes From Within

Marshall Goldsmith: Winning

Triggers: Becoming the Person that We Want to Be. What keeps us from becoming the person that we want to be?  Why are our New Year’s resolutions forgotten by February?  Why is employee engagement near an all-time low?  Dr. Marshall Goldsmith is a world authority in helping successful leaders achieve positive, lasting change in behavior: for themselves, their people and their teams.  In this fast-paced, interactive keynote, Dr. Goldsmith will explain why we so often don’t become the person that we want to be.  He will then share several structured approaches to managing our lives (at home and work) that have been proven to result in positive behavioral change.  Marshall will also share a completely new approach to employee engagement that teaches employees how to engage themselves.  Finally, Dr. Goldsmith will describe his breakthrough work with Alan Mulally, (the former CEO of Ford and CEO of the Year in the US) and show how a disciplined change process can not only impact individuals and teams, but also an entire organization.

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.

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.

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.

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