Today, we're heading back to Santa Fe, New Mexico in the United States to visit one of the early professional coaching pioneers, Mr. David Goldsmith.
David’s mission is to grow the quality of coaching and leadership worldwide. That's a big audacious goal.
David's also a senior partner of the Goldsmith Group, he's the founder and executive director of 7 Paths Forward, which is a training organization for coaches, where he partners with Mr. David Peterson.
In the early 1990s, David worked closely with Thomas Leonard on the Coach 100 concept and served as the first president of Coach University. Yes, that's more than 30 years back.
And during that time, he and Thomas founded the International Coach Federation, commonly referred to today as ICF, which is the leading coaching certification body for the global coaching profession.
As well, David was one of the first to attain from the ICF, his master-certified coach and board-certified coach credentials.
He later went on to lead coach-inc.com through its expansion as well as co-founding with Ruth Ann Harnisch the Foundation of Coaching, which later became the Institute of Coaching at Harvard, furthering the profession's commitment to research.
As coaching spread globally, David was invited to Japan to train the country's first coaches, and he worked closely with the Japanese groups, Coach 21 and COACH A to establish coaching in this part of Asia. His client list reads like a who's who of the business world, and today his focus is primarily on working with executives, professionals, and entrepreneurs.
Often known as the coach's coach. He's also worked with many of the leaders in the industry.
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