David Goldsmith advises C-suite leaders and founders worldwide. His work has generated enormous value for publicly traded, private, start-up, and nonprofit organizations across cultures and countries.
As a serial founder, executive and entrepreneur who has launched and led global entities, David is intimately familiar with the spectrum of challenges that come with heading up large and growing organizations. Executives at companies including Google, Meta, Atlassian, and Boston Consulting Group have benefited from his guidance for decades. His impact has been felt internationally in industries as diverse as technology, healthcare, professional services, construction, and fintech.
His work is tailored to the unique needs of c-suite leaders. Each engagement is designed for the needs and challenges his top of the house clients require. The work is pragmatic and developmental.
From their first conversation with David, leaders gain insights that ignite results. While personable and approachable, David is known for the speed and efficacy with which he helps his clients solve difficult problems, make significant improvements, and proceed directly to their goals. Insightful, incisive, and forthright, he is uniquely efficient in identifying opportunities, catalyzing progress, and delivering value.
His effective strategies for communication, reorganization, feedback, difficult conversations, and performing at the top levels of industry have cascaded to the bottom line for organizations’ stakeholders and entire workforces.
As a thought leader and educator, David has organized innovative global coaching conferences and is a sought-out speaker and panelist at business, coaching, and academic summits.
With offices in Santa Fe, New Mexico, and Melbourne, Australia, David is the founder The Goldsmith Group and 7 Paths Forward. He is also the Dean of the Platinum Program at Coaching.com. He is an advisor to Ovida and Psona, two startups in the AI Coaching sector.
David Goldsmith’s Executive Coaching Legacy
The David Goldsmith legacy in the executive coaching space is epic. He is a founder and longtime leader of the executive coaching profession. For more than 30 years, he’s expanded and improved the global coaching landscape through training, advocacy, and organizational leadership. During that time, he’s advised hundreds of executives and founders who have quickly achieved positive results and enviable success.
David co-founded the Foundation of Coaching, now the Institute of Coaching at Harvard University Medical School. He served as the first president of Coach U, one of the oldest and most established coach training schools. He co-founded the International Coaching Federation (ICF), the largest association of coaches worldwide with over 50,000 members, and he trained the first coaches in Japan, helping establish the first Japanese coaching company, coachA.com. Most recently, through his breakthrough company, 7 Paths Forward, he introduced the Accelerating Coaching Excellence (ACE) program. That program is actively building a vibrant and growing global community of 3,000+ elite and uniquely certified professional coaches.
David Goldsmith Coaching Credentials:
Coaches50 – The world’s most influential executive coaches | thinkers50/coaches50
ICF Master Certified Coach - MCC (first cohort) | coachingfederation.org
CCE Global Board-Certified Coach - BCC | cce-global.org/bcc
EMCC Global Individual Accreditation - EIA - Master Practitioner | emccglobal.org
EMCC Global Supervision - ESIA | emccglobal.org
EMCC Global Team coaching - ITC | emccglobal.org
Institute of Coaching - Harvard - Fellow | insituteofcoaching.org
Cornell University, United States - BS | cornell.edu
When he’s not busy helping leaders succeed, David enjoys spending time with his family, collecting art, crafting artisan breads, sipping excellent espresso, and making cheese.