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Great Executives
Great Thought Leaders
Great Learning Professionals
Great Executives say:
"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 process ROCKS!"
Alan Mulally
- Newly appointed CEO Ford Motor Company, former President and CEO Boeing Commercial Airlines - one of Business Week's top ten executives for 2005.
"Marshall has helped me personally to improve as a leader and has provided the tools and dynamics to turn a well-functioning management team into a high-performance team, where all the members have improved individually, and considerably added to team performance."
David Pyott - CEO Allergan - a global leader in specialty pharmaceuticals, honored in 2006 by HM the Queen as a Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire.
"At McKesson, we are on a mission - together with our customers - to fundamentally change the cost and quality of how healthcare is delivered. To fully realize the potential that lies in this transformation, our leaders must be able to demonstrate values-based leadership practices to maximize employee engagement each and every day. Marshall's teachings remind us of how personal growth and change are a never ending journey."
John Hammergren - CEO McKesson - a world leader in heath care delivery - in 2006 ranked #16 of the Fortune 500.
"Marshall is a dynamo. He helps highly successful people get better and better and better. His advice helps me enormously at work, but it makes an even bigger impact at home. My wife and kids stand up and applaud Marshall for helping me become a better husband and dad. What could be better than that?"
Mark Tercek - Managing Director, Goldman Sachs & Co - a leading investment banking, securities and investment management firm.
"A great coach teaches you how to improve yourself. Marshall is a great coach! He has a unique ability to help you determine what you can improve and what will have the greatest impact on the people you lead and love."
Brian Walker - CEO Herman Miller - a global leader in office products and furniture that create great places to work.
Marshall is the coach's coach. No one is more of a listener, who learns from us (his students) from what we say or do not say. Taking from what he has heard, he molds for all of us a program to make us and our people better for having been in his presence."
Alan Hassenfeld - Chairman of the Board, Hasbro - a global leader in toys and games - and making the world smile.
"While Cessna focused continuous improvement on business results, Marshall helped me focus on our leadership team's continuous improvement. The impact is amazing. His practical no nonsense approach is making a positive impact both professionally and personally on all of us. I have never had so much fun working on such a tough topic. Thank you Marshall!!!!!!!!!"
Jack Pelton - CEO Cessna - the world's leading designer and manufacturer of light and mid-size business jets.
- Former Chief of Staff , U.S. Army - some of his honors include: two Purple Hearts, two Legion of Merits, three Bronze Stars and the Distinguished Service Medal .
"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 - one of the world's leading volunteer health care associations.
"Seasoned executives often have a difficult time accepting that they can get better and understanding what they need to do to get there. No one operates at this level better than Marshall Goldsmith. The difference he has made with me is truly exceptional - and the only thing better is what he has been able to help me do with my senior executive team. Marshall is truly an exceptional person and coach."
Bob Cullen - CEO Thomson Healthcare and Scientific - a leader in providing information for healthcare professionals.
"As a coach, Marshall is like a best friend who tells you honestly what you need to know in the spirit of helping his best friend to do even better. He does this with genuine feedback from your colleagues, properly interpreted, which is actionable. He helps you to create a feedback loop which helps to make you a better leader and to measure how much you have improved. As a CFO, I believe in measurement!"
Jim Lawrence - Vice Chairman and CFO General Mills - winner of a CFO Magazine - Excellence Award for Leadership, Development and Training.
Great Thought Leaders say:
"I love Marshall 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 - best-selling author and the world's most admired thinker about leadership.
"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 has made him the best "diamond cutter" in the business. He can take a rough diamond and polish it rapidly to reveal its brilliance. He is one of a kind."
C.K. Prahalad - Professor, The University of Michigan - his books include the best-sellers The Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid, Competing for the Future and the Future of Competition, Business Week has called him the most influential thinker on business strategy today.
"Marshall is the rock star of coaching. His adoration is well deserved. He cares about the people he works with. He focuses on their issues. He connects great people with other great people so that they can continue to learn. He is honest, helpful, bold, and sensitive. He focuses on what can be not what has been and creates a future unbound by the past."
David Ulrich - rated by Business Week as the world's top management guru - regarded as the world's leading human resources consultant and author of many books, including Why the Bottom Line Isn't.
"Marshall Goldsmith is the world's greatest coach because he has extraordinary life skills, the ability to connect deeply with others while remaining objective, and a passion for sharing everything he knows. He focuses - and helps others to focus - on what matters most in life, and brings unforgettable insights and excitement to every encounter."
Sally Helgesen - global expert on developing women leaders - author of The Female Advantage and The Web of Inclusion - selected by The Wall Street Journal as one of the best leadership books of all time.
"Marshall's genius has reduced the significant field of leadership coaching to its essence - and his elegance is his world-class expression and implementation of this essence."
David Allen - recognized by Forbes as one of five most-respected executive coaches - world autority on personal productivity and author of the best-selling, Getting Things Done: the Art of Stress-Free Productivity.
"Marshall Goldsmith has the unique capability to foster win-win networking and collaborative relationships. These efforts, across a wide range of people, typically result in contributions that advance thought and/or practice in the field of leadership. A person of integrity, Marshall also brings to the table an enthusiasm for life and success."
Roosevelt Thomas - America's leading authority in the field of diversity - recognized in The Wall Street Journal as one of the top ten executive educators and the author of Building on the Promise of Diversity.
"Marshall is proactive on your behalf - you don't need to ask - he just offers up what he can - whenever he can! I am thankful that he has been in my life and for continuing to give me that straight talk on my own soft spots!"
Beverly Kaye - world authority in career planning - author of Love 'Em or Lose 'Em: Getting Good People to Stay, the most popular book ever written on retention.
"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 teacher - thought leadership, classroom management, and presence. He is a tremendous asset to the Tuck School at Dartmouth."
Vijay Govindarajan - Professor and Director, Center for Global Leadership, Tuck School of Business, Dartmouth - one of Forbes' five most-respected coaches, noted author and world authority on strategy and innovation.
"Marshall Goldsmith has consistently received the elusive "Wow!" response from senior executive program participants at the University of Michigan. He deeply engages executives intellectually, emotionally and practically. He is the best in his field."
Wayne Brockbank - Clinical Professor of Business & Director, Center for Strategic HR Leadership, University of Michigan - award-winning author on HR strategy and co-author of The HR Value Proposition.
"Marshall Goldsmith is the most helpful, practical, business coach in the world today. He quickly shows you how to get more out of yourself and your business than you ever thought possible."
Brian Tracy - internationally known business speaker and advisor - author of 40 books in 35 languages, including Turbostrategy and Turbocoach.
- Professor and Director of the Center for Leadership and Change Management, Wharton Business School, University of Pennsylvania -world authority on leadership, author of Upward Bound and The Leadership Moment.
"Every father secretly hopes that his son will want to be like him someday, and yet fears that same event because he knows too well his own foibles and weaknesses. My sons were stuck with me, and love me in spite of that, but Marshall chose me, and that's an honor I do not take lightly. I did what any father does; I shared my knowledge with him and I believed in him and his dreams. I have not been disappointed. The circle of life continues and it is I who am now inspired by him. No rather could be prouder."
Paul Hersey - Marshall's mentor, and the founder of Situational Leadership - author of the best-selling Management and Organizational Behavior and noted authority on leadership whose work has influenced millions of people around the world.
Great Learning Professionals say:
"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 - Business Week's # 1 organization for developing leaders.
"Marshall has a unique gift and a rare skill - the gift to get beneath the surface issues to identify the core developmental needs that must be resolved for someone to be successful, and the skill to make the person aware of them in a no-nonsense manner that, somehow, stimulates change rather than creating denial and resistance."
Steve Kerr - Chief Learning Officer, Goldman Sachs - former CLO of GE and President of the Academy of Management.
"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 - now Managing Partner of Alexcel.
"Marshall Goldsmith has a simple, yet powerful approach for helping leaders excel. Its power lies not only in its simplicity, but in his unique ability to deliver practical insights that leaders can act upon. I seldom leave a session with Marshall without feeling a bit wiser than before."
Jon Katzenbach - Founder, Katzenbach Partners and former Director, McKinsey and Company - author of many books, including the best-seller, The Wisdom of Teams.
"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 - co-author of Leading the Way and Human Resources in the 20th Century.
"Over the last ten years, Marshall's practical insights into coaching and development have helped almost 7,000 managers from our member organizations improve their performance and leadership skills. His enthusiasm and energy have established him as one of the highest-rated speakers that we have worked with in our 32 year history."
Jon Peters - President, The Institute for Management Studies - a global leader in providing world-class executive education for over three decades.
"Of the hundreds of world-class speakers we use at our global conferences, Marshall Goldsmith is consistently rated by our attendees among the best. His charismatic style makes it practical, fun and interactive."
Phil Harkins - President and CEO, Linkage, Inc. - providing organization and leadership development experiences for thousands of leaders around the world.
"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 coaching - it is second to none."
Louis Carter - President and CEO, Best Practice Institute - a global leader in creating and sustaining communities of practice.
"While many experts are effective in creating awareness and interest, Marshall addresses the topic of personal improvement in a way that kindles the required motivation to drive to action."
Charles Corace - Director, Management Education & Development, Johnson & Johnson - rated by CEO magazine as #1 for developing leaders.
"The best thing about Marshall is that he always promises 100% and delivers 120%. An absolute pleasure to work with!"
Debbie McGrath - CEO, HR.com - the world's leading HR website and educational organization.
"Having spent 15+ years in leadership and executive development, I have had the privilege of experiencing first hand and up close an elite group of brand name speakers and executive coaches. Marshall is indeed the very best in igniting truly transformational and lasting change in successful individuals and organizations."
Deepak Sethi - former head of leadership and executive development AT&T.
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