The ultimate executive coach, Marshall Goldsmith is also a distinguished teacher, writer and editor and the man behind much of the management thinking we take for granted today

• Coaching for Leadership
• Globalization: A Nightmare or a Dream Come True
• Leadership is a Contact Sport Global Leadership: The Next Generation
• The Success Delusion
• Helping Successful Leaders Get Even Better
• Women in Leadership: Unique Challenges and Opportunities
• Try Feedforward Instead of Feedback
• Effectively Influencing Up

Background

Marshall was born in Valley Station, Kentucky in 1949 and went to University in Indiana. He has an MBA from Indiana University's Kelley School of Business and a PhD from UCLA Anderson School of Management - in 2012 he was recognized as their Distinguished Alumnus of the Year. He teaches Executive Education at Dartmouth's Tuck School and speaks at leading business schools around the world.

He refers to himself as a philosophical Buddhist. He is married with two children and lives in California. He volunteers with the US army, navy, scouts and Red Cross.

Career

Marshall Goldsmith made his name as an executive coach by helping great leaders to become even better. He got involved in coaching by accident, after talking to a CEO about an employee who didn’t seem to fit and now works with executives in depth to understand themselves and their organisations from all angles. He pioneered the use of 360 degree feedback to bring about positive change.

His books - over 32 of them - have sold in their millions and have won countless awards. The highly acclaimed, What Got You Here Won't Get You There, helped leaders to identify the things that were holding them back and was named the Wall St Journal’s number 1 Business Book of the year and the winner of the Harold Longman Best Business Book award. Other books include Mojo which is about creating motivation and meaning at work and succession about the dynamics of letting go.

He is considered to be one of the founding fathers of executive coaching and was already being ranked as one of the top ten executive educators in the Wall Street Journal in 1993. He is the co-founder of his is own coaching firm the Marshall Goldsmith Group. He has featured in profiles in The New Yorker, Harvard Business Review, Interview and Forbes and he has been presented with awards and accolades from almost every professional organisation in his field. Most of his work is available free of charge at the Marshall Goldsmith Library 

• The Leader of the Future edited with Frances Hesselbein and Richard Beckhard (1996)
• The Organization of the Future edited with Frances Hesselbein and Richard Beckhard (1997)
• Learning Journeys: Top Management Experts Share Hard-Earned Lessons on Becoming Great Mentors and Leaders with Beverly Kaye, and Ken Shelton (eds) (2000)
• The Leadership Investment: How the World's Best Organizations Gain Strategic Advantage through Leadership Development with Robert M. Fulmer (2001)
• Global Leadership: The Next Generation Alastair Robertson, Cathy Greenberg, Maya Hu-Cha (2003)
• Partnering: The New Face of Leadership with Larraine Segil and James A. Belasco (2003)
• The Art and Practice of Leadership Coaching: 50 Top Executive Coaches Reveal Their Secrets with Howard Morgan (Editor) and Phil Harkins (2005)
• Succession: Are You Ready? (2009)
• Mojo: How to Get It, How to Keep It, How to Get It Back If You Lose It with Mark Reiter (2010)
• The Why of Work: How Great Leaders Build Abundant Organizations That Win: How Great Leaders Build Abundant Organizations That Win with Dave Ulrich and Wendy Ulrich (2010)
• What Got You Here Won't Get You There in Sales with Don Brown and Bill Hawkins (2010)
• The AMA Handbook of Leadership with Frank M. Gryna (2010)
• Getting Ahead: Three Steps to Take Your Career to the Next Level with Joel Garfinkle (2011)
• What Got You Here Won't Get You There: How Successful People Become Even More Successful with Mark Reiter (2011)

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