Marshall Goldsmith

Marshall Goldsmith is widely recognized as one of the world's foremost authorities in helping leaders achieve positive, measurable change in behaviour: for themselves and for their teams. In 2000, Forbes Magazine listed Goldsmith as one of five top executive coaches, and Human Resources magazine rated Goldsmith as one of the world's leading HR consultants. In September 2005, Forbes described him as the 'rock star in the world of executive coaching'. Goldsmith has also been ranked by The Wall Street Journal as one of the "Top 10" consultants in the field of executive education, and the American Management Association name him as one of the 50 great thinkers and leaders in the field of management.

Goldsmith is the co-founder of the Marshall Goldsmith Partners, a network of top-executive coaches. He also teaches executive education at Dartmouth's Tuck School and is a fellow in the National Academy of Human Resources. Goldsmith is extensively involved in volunteer service with a number of institutions and has been named National Volunteer of the Year.

Goldsmith co-edited the bestsellers The Leader of the Future, The Organization of the Future, The Community of the Future (which Amazon.com ranked #1 in its field) and Leading Beyond the Walls (which sold over half a million copies in 14 languages). Goldsmith's 2007 release, What Got You Here Won't Get You There, ranked as the #1 best selling business book in the United States in both The Wall Street Journal and USA Today best seller lists. Goldsmith's most recent publication, Succession: Are You Ready?, is designed to help corporate leaders prepare for transition, choose a successor, coach that successor and, ultimately, pass the baton. His is expecting the release of his latest work, MOJO: How to Get It, How to Keep It, and How to Get it Back When You Need It!, in December 2009.

• J. Leadership Development

  Customized programs that reinforce the corporation's desired behavior for the leader of the future – over the years Marshall has helped design or deliver corporate-wide leadership development programs for Johnson & Johnson, McKinsey, IBM, American Express, Northrop Grumman, the American Red Cross (as a volunteer) and many other leading organizations.

• I. High-Potential Leadership Programs:

  Customized programs for high-potential leaders – Marshall's mission "helping successful leaders get even better" is perfectly suited to training for high-potential leaders. He is currently conducting high-potential leadership training for companies such as UBS, Deutsche Bank, Goldman Sachs, Glaxo SmithKline, Philips and Thomson.

• H. Executive Development

  Customized programs for C-level executives - Marshall has conducted very successful sessions for over 70 CEOs and their management teams. He is possibly the top-rated speaker for executive teams in the world.

• G. Women in Leadership: Unique Challenges and Opportunities

  Goldsmith is currently teaching in the Women's Leadership programs for UBS, Goldman Sachs and Textron.

• F. Achieving Happiness and Self-Acceptance in a Crazy World

• E. Effectively Influencing Up: Changing What You Can Change and Making Peace with What You Cannot Change

• D. Globalization: A Nightmare or a Dream Come True

• C. Global Leadership: The Next Generation

• B. Coaching for Leadership

• A. Helping Successful Leaders Get Even Better

• Dr. Marshall Goldsmith's expertise is extraordinary, his presentation skills among the most dynamic and effective anywhere... the result is an experience to remember for a long, long time
  The Institute for Management Studies

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  December 2009

  MOJO: How to Get It, How to Keep It, and How to Get it Back When You Need It.

  Mojo is that much-desired sweet spot in an organization's year, a sports team's season, or an individual's career where everything is going the right way-and success builds upon success. In Mojo, Marshall Goldsmith explains that having mojo means controlling three elements: - Identity, Achievement & Reputation (Who do other people think you are? Knowing how to acquire, maintain, or even recapture it is what really counts, and Mojo will show that momentum in business-organizations as well as individual lives and careers-is easy to define and quantify; there's a clear cause-and-effect relationship between mojo and success.

  
  
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  February 2009

  Succession – Are You Ready?

  A leader's greatest challenge can be knowing when it's time to step aside. Most executives have few resources to help guide them through the process. How do you start preparing yourself--and your successor--for your inevitable leadership transition? In this concise book, Marshall Goldsmith offers candid advice on succession from the outgoing executive's perspective. From choosing and grooming a successor while sidestepping political minefields, to finally handing over responsibility, Goldsmith walks you through each step in the succession process.

  
  
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  September 2007

  What Got You Here Wont Get You There: The Twenty Habits That Are Holding You Back From The Top & How To Stop Them

  America's most sought-after executive coach shows how to climb the last few rungs of the ladder the corporate world is filled with executives who have worked hard for years to reach the upper levels of management. They're intelligent, skilled, and even charismatic. But only a handful of them will ever reach the pinnacle. As an executive coach, Marshall Goldsmith shows in this book, subtle nuances make all the difference.

  
  
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  September 2006

  Leader of the Future (two vols)

  In twenty-seven inspiring and insightful essays in each book, this series celebrates the wisdom of some of the most recognized thought leaders of our day who share their unique vision of leadership for the future.

  
  
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  September 2002

  The Many Facets of Leadership

  In The Many Facets of Leadership, more than 40 top leadership experts share their insights on every aspect of leadership in the 21st century. This book brings together new ideas and techniques for leading change, promoting learning and innovation, handling complexity and crisis, overcoming blind spots, managing knowledge workers, coaching tomorrow's leaders, increasing value, retaining customers, and much more.

  
  
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  January 2001

  Leading Beyond the Walls: Wisdom to Action Series

  In Leading Beyond the Walls, twenty-nine great thinkers examine leaders adept at establishing partnerships, alliances, and networks both within and outside their organizations. They address the challenge of leading in an age when the old rules and conventional boundaries no longer exist. Peter F. Drucker, Stephen R. Covey, Peter M. Senge, Jim Collins, Noel Tichy, Regina E. Herzlinger, C.K. Prahalad, and Sally Helgesen are among those who explore new ways of building relationships, new approaches to strategy and marketing, new models of employee relations, and other innovations. Their essays herald a new world where success comes to those willing to move beyond the walls of tradition and inertia.

  
  
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  February 2000

  The Organization of the Future

  The book describes how tomorrow's organizations can chart the path toward growth and prosperity in rapidly changing times and includes amazing examples of how organizations from different sectors have created cultures that are empowering their employees and transforming their industries and communities. The contributors offer varied and diverse views on the organization of the future—for entrepreneurs to large corporations, nonprofits, and universities—including three different yet complementary approaches to inclusion, integration, and horizontal organization.