Marshall Goldsmith

Author at Thinkers50 Hall of Fame

Speaker

A New York Times #1 bestselling author, his 52 books have sold over 3 million copies and been translated into 35 languages. In 2023, Chief Executive magazine listed his What Got You Here Won’t Get You There as one of Ten Best Business Books ever written – Amazon listed it, along with Triggers, in their 100 Best Leadership & Success Books. Marshall is the only living author with two books on the list. His newest book, and fourth New York Times bestseller, is The Earned Life.

Marshall’s professional acknowledgements include BusinessWeek - 50 great leaders in America, Institute for Management Studies - Lifetime Achievement Award for Teaching, Harvard Business Review - World’s #1 Leadership Thinker, American Management Association - 50 great thinkers who have influenced the field of management and Global Gurus - Corps D ’Elite Award for Lifetime Contribution in both Leadership and Coaching, His life is featured in the documentary movie, “The Earned Life” and the New Yorker profile, “The Better Boss”.

Dr. Goldsmith served as a Professor of Management Practice at the Dartmouth Tuck School of Business. He has a Ph.D. from the UCLA Anderson School of Management -where he was the Distinguished Alumnus of the Year, an MBA from the Indiana University Kelley School of Business - where he was the Distinguished Entrepreneur of the Year and a BS from Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology – where he also received an honorary Ph.D. in Engineering in 2023. He has been a volunteer advisor and coach for the leaders of the Peter Drucker Foundation, World Bank, St. Jude Children's Hospital, the Mayo Clinic, US Army and Navy, Girl Scouts of the USA, and International and American Red Cross – where he was a National Volunteer of the Year.

Marshall has over 1.5 million followers on LinkedIn and 4 million views on YouTube. Hundreds of his articles, interviews, columns, and videos are online (at no charge). His resources have been viewed, read, listened to, downloaded, or shared over 100 million times.