Ep. #32 – Dr. Marshall Goldsmith – The Big Success Podcast with Brad Sugars

Dr. Marshall Goldsmith

Dr. Goldsmith is a member of the Thinkers 50 Hall of Fame. He is the only two-time Thinkers 50 #1 Leadership Thinker in the World. For years, he has been ranked as the World’s #1 Executive Coach and Top Ten Business Thinker. His clients have included over 200 the world’s most highly regarded CEOs.

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 NYT bestseller, is The Earned Life.

Marshall’s professional acknowledgments 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 Childrens Hospital, the Mayo Clinic, US Army and Navy, Girl Scouts of the USA, and I