Marshall Goldsmith is the world's top-ranked 🏷️#executive-coach and a two-time Thinkers50 winner as the No. 1 Leadership Thinker in the World. Holding a Ph.D. from 📝UCLA, he has spent four decades working with over 200 major CEOs and their management teams, focusing on positive, lasting behavioral change. He is the founder of the Marshall Goldsmith Group and the 100 Coaches initiative, and serves on the faculty of executive education programs at Dartmouth and the University of Michigan.
Goldsmith is a #1 📝The New York Times bestselling 🏷️#author with more than 47 books translated into 32 languages and sold in excess of three million copies. His best-known works include What Got You Here Won't Get You There, Triggers, MOJO, and The Earned Life — two of which 📝Amazon recognized among the 100 Best Leadership and Success Books Ever Written, making him the only living author with two books on that list. He pioneered the use of 360-degree feedback in executive coaching and developed a stakeholder-confirmed methodology for measuring behavioral change. He received the inaugural Lifetime Achievement Award from the Institute of Coaching at 📝Harvard University Medical School and is a member of the Thinkers50 Hall of Fame.
Goldsmith's feedforward methodology and his framing of "what got you here won't get you there" map directly onto the kind of behavioral ceiling-breaking relevant to founders and operators scaling past their earlier identity. In the library as a reference for coaching frameworks and leadership development thinking.