The Art and Practice of Leadership Coaching: 50 Top Executive Coaches Reveal Their Secrets

56 50 TOPEXECUTIVECOACHES

THOUGHT LEADERS

Marshall Goldsmith

Changing Leadership Behavior

M

y mission is to help successful leaders achieve a positive change in be-

havior: for themselves, their people and their teams.

While I am best known as an executive coach, coaching represents only

25 percent of what I do. The remaining three-quarters of my time is spent in

teaching others (executives, high-potential leaders, human resource profes-

sionals, or university executive education participants) what I know, writing

or editing books and articles, or working in consulting networks that can pro-

vide a wide range of coaches to leaders around the world. Almost everything

that I do as a professional is related to my mission.

Our “Pay for Results” Behavioral

Coaching Approach

All of the behavioral coaches that I work with use the same general ap-

proach. We first get an agreement with our coaching clients and their man-

agers on two key variables: (1) what are the key behaviors that will make the

Marshall Goldsmith currently heads Marshall Goldsmith

Partners, a joint venture between Marshall and Katzen-

bach Partners, LLC. He frequently teaches high-potential

leaders and is on the executive education faculty at Michi-

gan and Dartmouth. His newest books are Global Leader-

ship: The Next Generationand Human Resources in the

21st Century.Amazon.com has ranked six of his books as

the “most popular” in their field. In the past two years,

Marshall’s work has been featured in a New Yorkerpro-

file, a Harvard Business Reviewinterview, and a Business Strategy Reviewcover

stor y (from the London Business School). He was featured in the Wa l l S t r e e t

Jo urnalas one of the “top 10” executive educators, in For besas one offive top

executive coaches, in Business Times(of Asia) as one of 16 major thought lead-

ers in his field, and in Fa s t Co mpanyas America’s preeminent executive coach.

Marshall’s books include The Leader of the Future(a BusinessWeek“top 15”

bestseller), The Organization of the Future(a Library Journal“Best Business

Book” award winner) and The Leadership Investment(which won a Choice

award as an “Outstanding Academic Business Book”). He can be reached via the

Internet at http://www.MarshallGoldsmith.com or by phone at (858) 759-0950.