Feb. 5, 2007 - San Diego, CA – The advice Marshall Goldsmith gives to Fortune 500 CEOs and to the legions now reading the hands-down new bestseller, What Got You Here Won't Get You There: How Successful People Become Even More Successful, is available to students at Alliant International University for free. All they 
need to do is show and take a walk with Marshall and his dog Beau.
“Alliant graduate students have an open invitation to visit my home,” explains the nation’s most famous and sought-after executive coach and best-selling author. “We go on wonderful walks and talk about anything that they want to talk about.”
Much of what grad students in Alliant’s Marshall Goldsmith School of Management want to talk about is business, careers and coaching for improvement: the same topics Goldsmith covers in the new book that has been featured in Business Week and has shot to the top of the best-seller lists on Amazon.com, the Wall Street Journal and USA Today. And what they’re getting from the school that bears Goldsmith’s name is getting them where they want to go in their careers.
Andrew Thorn, who earned a master's degree from Alliant and is now a PhD candidate in Consulting Psychology in San Diego, was one of the first students to get a career boost from Goldsmith. Thorn initially sought Goldsmith out several years ago, before Alliant named its school of business, organizational psychology and international studies the "Marshall Goldsmith School of Management." Thorn met Goldsmith intending only to interview him for a class; he wound up not only being hired by Goldsmith, but also serving as Dr. Goldsmith’s personal coach.
“I am very impressed with Alliant International University's students,” says Goldsmith. “Over the years I have worked many interns from Alliant. They have not been good - they have been amazing! Some have already achieved the level of top consultants in my field.”
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Above: Marshall Goldsmith and Beau
Below : Dr. Marshall Goldsmith with Alliant students and faculty in Fresno.
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| Above: Dr. Goldsmith with students at Alliant's Scripps Ranch Campus in San Diego |
During dog walks and events throughout California, students not only gain valuable professional insights, they also gain entrée into Marshall’s network of colleagues – a small army of expert executives and management coaches he calls the “Thought Leaders.” Drawing on the connections offered by the year-old project, students have gained internships and job leads from luminaries such as Frances Hesselbein, former CEO of the Girls Scouts of the USA, and Ken Shelton, editor and publisher of Executive Excellence magazine. For example, Jina Hwang, a San Diego Alliant doctoral candidate, was adopted as a protégé by Dr. Gary Ranker, who is cited by Forbes as one of the nation’s top five coaches. Ms. Hwang’s doctoral research is now featured on Ranker’s popular website.
“Marshall’s Goldsmith Thought Leader Project has been an amazing experience!” said Beverly A. Barr, a graduate student in Industrial-Organizational Psychology in San Diego. “I have met leaders in the area of Organizational Development I would have never met on my own. I am working with a coach who is the President of a Fortune 500 company. The experience and confidence I have gained cannot be measured.” Ms. Barr says that Dr. Goldsmith brings students opportunities that “seem limitless.”
Goldsmith events present an “unparalleled opportunity to meet with other like-minded professionals and students in a setting vibrating with positive energy, ideas and networking potential,” added Roxana Bellia, a PhD candidate in Industrial-Organizational Psychology at Alliant’s Irvine Campus near Los Angeles.
Formally titled an Alliant University Professor, Dr. Goldsmith meets with student groups at Alliant campuses in San Diego, San Francisco, Los Angeles and Fresno. What he teaches to students during these events is pretty much what he teaches to CEOs in more than 80 executive suites across America.
At a recent San Francisco gathering, for example, Dr. Goldsmith gave students, faculty and prospective students a taste of how he helps executives. Goldsmith asked each guest to think of something s/he wanted to change, and then told them to mill around and ask others for ways to make that change. The participants were not allowed to critique the suggestions they received; they could only say “thank you” and move on. Dr. Goldsmith then suggested that students pair up as “peer coaches” and phone one another each night to check in about whether or not they had applied the suggestions.
Robin Fox, who is working toward a master's degree in Organizational Behavior, met Dr. Goldsmith at a recent event in Fresno, said, “I can tell you what I've told others: He was dynamic, energizing, and approachable in his simple eloquence! I love his concept of ‘feedforward’ and have already started using it!”
“Attending one of Marshall Goldsmith's workshops was a unique opportunity to look introspectively and meet with other individuals in the field of Industrial/Organizational Psychology,” said Jessica A. Mahoney, a graduate student in Industrial-Organizational Psychology in San Diego. “I felt enlightened at the end of the day and inspired to go forth and be the best I could be with the resources Marshall provided to us all.”
“Alliant is committed to becoming the #1 school in the United States for educating professionals in the human side of business,” says Dr. Goldsmith. “We are going to make this happen!”
About Alliant International University
Alliant International University offers a unique curriculum that combines academics and apprenticeship in all courses of study. With accredited programs at San Francisco, Sacramento, Fresno, Los Angeles, Irvine and San Diego, Alliant also hosts accredited programs in Mexico City, Mexico and Tokyo, Japan.
About Marshall Goldsmith
The American Management Association recently stated that Marshall Goldsmith is one of 50 great thinkers and leaders who have influenced the field of management over the past 80 years. The National Academy of Human Resources has recognized him as a Fellow, giving him America’s top human resources honor. Business Week listed Dr. Goldsmith as one of the most influential practitioners in the history of leadership development. His work has been featured in a New Yorker profile, a Harvard Business Review interview and he has been the subject of major business press acknowledgments in Wall Street Journal, Forbes, the Economic Times of India and the Economist in the UK. An executive coach to more than 80 CEOs around the world, Dr. Goldsmith is the editor of Global Leadership, the Next Generation; he has written or edited 23 books on effective leadership and management practices.
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