Dr. Marshall Goldsmith is a professor of management practice at the Dartmouth Tuck School of Business and the author or editor of 35 books. Translated into 30 languages, his books have become bestsellers in 12 countries, selling more than two million copies.
His two New York Times bestsellers are What Got You Here Won’t Get You There – winner of the Harold Longman Award for Business Book of the Year – and the follow-up, Mojo: How to Get It, How to Keep It, and How to Get It Back if You Lose It.
In February 2016, Amazon included What Got You Here Won’t Get You There and Triggers in its 100 Best Leadership & Success Books list. Marshall was one of only two authors to have two works listed.
Other books include the WSJ bestseller, Succession: Are You Ready? and the BusinessWeek bestseller, The Leader of the Future. Three of his books have won the American Library Association Choice Award for best academic business book of the year.
Marshall’s work has been recognized by almost every professional organization in his field. Professional acknowledgments include:
- World’s #1 Leadership Thinker | Harvard Business Review and Best Practices Institute
- World’s #1 Executive Coach | Global Gurus, Fast Company, and Inc. magazines
- Lifetime Achievement Award for Excellence in Teaching | Institute for Management Studies
- 50 great thinkers and leaders who have influenced the field of management over the past 80 years | American Management Association
- 50 great leaders in America | BusinessWeek
- Top ten executive educators | Wall Street Journal
- Most credible executive advisors in the new era of business | The Economist (UK)
- Fellow of the Academy (America’s top HR award) | National Academy of Human Resources
- Global leader in HR thinking | World HRD Congress (India)
Marshall served on the board of the Peter Drucker Foundation for ten years and has worked with over 150 major CEOs and their management teams. He has also been a volunteer teacher for generals in the U.S. Army, admirals in the U.S. Navy, and executives and leaders of the Girl Scouts, the International Red Cross, and the American Red Cross, where he was named National Volunteer of the Year.
He earned his Ph.D. from UCLA’s Anderson School of Management, where he was named Distinguished Alumnus of the Year. Over three hundred of his articles, interviews, columns, and videos are available online for viewing and sharing. Visitors to his site have come from 197 countries and have viewed, read, listened to, downloaded, or shared resources over 25 million times.