Early Praise
“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, Paul and Ruth McCracken Distinguished University Professor of Corporate Strategy and International Business, University of Michigan, bestselling author of Competing for the Future, The Future of Competition and The Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid
“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 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!”
--JP Garnier, CEO Glaxo SmithKline
“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 of Getty Images
“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 resource 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 – VP Organizational Development and Staffing, GE Capital Solutions
“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 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
"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, CLO Goldman Sachs, former CLO of GE and President Academy of Management.
“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 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, The 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 coaching – it is second to none.”
--Louis Carter, President and CEO of 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 me – this 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 Institute – and we are still working together to serve leaders.”
--Frances Hesselbein, winner of the Presidential Medal of Freedom
“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.
“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 since our grad school days and for continuing to give me that straight talk on my own soft spots!”
--Beverly Kaye, world authority in career planning and author of Love ‘Em or Lose ‘Em: Getting Good People to Stay
“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 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
“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, CEO Hasbro
“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 and author of many books, including The Wisdom of Teams.
“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 - leading HR consultant and author of many books, including Why the Bottom Line Isn’t.
“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
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