Goldsmith Marshall - What got you here wont get you there: how successful people become even more successful!

What business leaders and learning professional have to say about working with Marshall Goldsmith:

"I love Marshal goldsmith for lots of reasons: his generous soul, his capacity to bring out the best in people, his zen-like ability to create an evocative community--the mark of a great teacher, and his way of getting people, just about everybody, to laugh their way into deep and penetrating insights. He is the very model of a professional--reliable, trustworthy, always 'on'and always has your interest at heart."

WARREN BENNIS, Distinguished Professor of Business,
University of southern California, and bestselling author

"We were a very successful team who took our performance to the next level. With Marshall's help we identified our two areas and went to work. We used everyone's help and support, exceeded our improvement expectations, and had fun! A team's dedication to continuous improvement combined with Marshall's proven improvement process ROCKS!"

ALAN MULALLY, CEO, Ford Motor Company, former president and
CEO, Boeing Commercial Airlines

"Helping high achievers recognize their sharp edges, become self-aware, and increase their personal effectiveness is at the heart of leadership development. Marshall brings to this task a deep commitment to excellence, sensitivity, candor, and results. Many years of patient practice have made him the best 'diamond cutter' in the business--he can take rough diamond and polish it rapidly to reveal its brilliance. He is one of a kind."

C. K. PRAHALAD, bestselling author and Paul and Ruth McCracken
Distinguished University Professor of Corporate Strategy and International Business, University of Michigan

"Marshall Goldsmith has helped me become a more effective leader, as judged by the people who are most important at Getty Images--our employees. Marshall has helped me and my executive team members to be much better positive role models for living our Leadership Principles."

JONATHAN KLEIN, CEO, Getty Images

"Marshall is a great coach and teacher. He has done a lot to help both me and our high-potential leaders. His approach is practical, useful, helpful, and fun!"

J. P. GARNIER, CEO, GlaxoSmithKline

"Marshall's 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 Marshall shared with them are therefore vitally important as they return to their various commands and leadership responsibilities."

GENERAL ERIC K. SHINSEKI, former Chief of Staff, U.S. Army

"Perhaps the greatest teacher of leadership on the planet. I have personally watched him help thousands of executives in three companies improve their leadership in measurable ways. As a result, their performance improved, their relationships improved, and they lived happier lives."

JIM MOORE, served as the chief learning officer of Bellsouth,
Nortel, and Sun Microsystems

"There is simply no better coach for your most important leaders than Marshall Goldsmith. He excels on the only metric that matters-he achieves positive, measurable change."

MARC EFFRON, chief learning officer, Avon, and co-author of Leading the Way and Human resources in the 20th Century

"Marshall helped GE human resources professionals customize his coaching process for use with our high-potential leaders. Our internal HR coaches have achieved outstanding results with hundreds of our leaders. Marshall's model has been a real win for us!"

LINDA SHARKEY, vice president, Organizational Development and Staffing, GE Capital solution

"Marshall Goldsmith easily ranks among the very best teachers and coaches of executives anywhere--bar none. His years of experience and his proven methods have helped hundreds of leaders achieve positive, lasting behavioral change."

JOHN ALEXANDER, president, Center for Creative Leadership

"Marshall helped us determine that the role of a leader is about inspiring others. He showed us how to inspire others and build lasting relationships. He challenged our team and they loved working with him."

CASS WHEELER, CEO, American Heart Association

For over a decade I have worked with Marshall in corporations and seen him teach at Dartmouth. In my opinion, Marshall is the best at what he does, bar none. He has that rare combination that makes a great teacherthought leadership, classroom management, and presence. He is a tremendous asset to Tuck School at Dartmouth.

VIJAY GOVINDARAJAN, professor and director,
Center for Global Leadership, Tuck School, Dartmouth

With great energy and excellent content, Marshall engaged, excited, and even enthralled his audience of several hundred participants at the Wharton Leadership Conference. Marshall was a star!

DR. MICHAEL USEEM, William and Jacalyn Egan Professor of Management and director of the Center for Leadership and Change Management, Wharton Business School, University of Pennsylvania

I consider Marshall to be the number one thought leader and coach in the field of leadership and executive development today. I sincerely appreciate his honest, straightforward, positive, and purposeful approach to executive coachingit is second to none.

LOUIS CARTER, president and CEO, Best Practice Institute, a global leader in creating and sustaining communities of practice

As the CEO of the Girl Scouts, I was working to help a great organization be the best that we could be. The first person Marshall volunteered to work with was methis sent an important message. I was exuberant about the experience, I improved, and we moved this process across the organization. Twenty-four years later, I am chairman of the Leader to Leader Instituteand we are still working together to serve leaders.