About the Authors

Marshall Goldsmith

Marshall Goldsmith is a world authority in helping successful leaders achieve a positive, measurable change in behavior: for themselves, their people, and their teams. In 2002 Marshall was featured in both a New Yorker profile and a Harvard Business Review interview. He has been listed in Forbes as one of five top executive coaches and in The Wall Street Journal as one of the "top 10" executive educators. Marshall is one of the select few consultants who has been asked to work with over 60 major CEOs. His leadership development processes have impacted over one million people. His work has been positively recognized by many of the leading organizations in his field, including the American Management Association, the American Society for Training and Development, the Center for Creative Leadership, the Conference Board, the Human Resource Planning Society, and the Institute for Management Studies.

Dr. Goldsmith has a Ph.D. from UCLA and is on the faculty of executive education programs for Dartmouth, Oxford, and Michigan universities. He is co-author or co-editor of 15 books, including The Leader of the Future (a Business Week "Top 15" bestseller), The Organization of the Future (a Library Journal "best business book"), The Leadership Investment (Choice award winner as an "academic business book of the year"), Coaching for Leadership, and The Many Facets of Leadership. Five of his books have been ranked as number one in their field by Amazon.com.

Cathy L. Greenberg

Cathy L. Greenberg, is an internationally recognized authority on leadership and human behavior. A sociobiologist and managing partner in two of the world's largest consulting firms, Accenture and CSC (Computer Sciences Corporation), she holds a doctorate in the behavioral sciences.

With two decades of expertise, Dr. Greenberg focuses on the successful management and integration of business strategy and human performance. Cathy maximizes the outcomes of transformational business change, through executive coaching, cultural and organizational assessment and journey management during start-ups, enterprisewide change, and mergers and alliances. Working with executives and CEOs in the global Fortune 500, she has spanned all industries including the US Army War College Special Forces. Cathy, a keynote speaker at the World Economic Forum, has appeared in The London Times, The Financial Times, Australia's The Boss, Stanford Executive videos, and a host of international media, radio, and talk shows.

Cathy, an executive in her own right, was a founding partner in charge of CSC's Global Organizational Change Practice and the cofounder of the Executive Leadership Theme Team at the Accenture Institute for Strategic Change. She and a team of worldwide experts completed the most comprehensive work to date on developing the Executive of the Future and is featured in the Drucker Foundation series Leading Beyond Walls, Coaching for Leadership, and The Future of Leadership. Cathy is a host at the global Women.Future.com event and founder of the Alliance for Women in Leadership (A4WL), an organization targeting the special needs of women leaders. For more information, contact [email protected].

She has one daughter, Elizabeth, and resides in Philadelphia most of the year.

Alastair Robertson

Alastair Robertson is a world-renowned leadership expert, speaker and author with 28 years experience both as an executive in the consumer products industry and in consulting/coaching. He has worked extensively with clients on the development of leadership behaviors specifically linked to the building of enhanced performance, tailored to the context of an organization's business strategy. He is a specialist in individual, team, and organization leadership assessment and behavior development, building on personal motivational strengths, and is an advisor/coach to many European and USA based executives. His clients include many Fortune 500 companies, across all industry sectors.

Alastair is also a frequent public speaker, and has been a keynote speaker for many organizations, including Forbes, the Economic Times of India, the South African CEO Forum, the Accenture Leadership Dialog Series, and many major corporations. He is often a TV and radio guest, and has also been featured in major national and international newspapers and business magazines. His home is in Boston and he can be reached by email at [email protected].

Maya Hu-Chan

Maya is an international management consultant, executive coach, leadership development educator and a founding partner of Alliance for Strategic Leadership Coaching & Consulting (A4SL C&C). She specializes in global leadership, executive coaching, 360 leadership feedback, cross-cultural communication, and diversity.

She has coached thousands of leaders in Global 100 companies to improve their leadership competency.She has worked with major corporations throughout North America, Asia, Europe, South America, and Australia.

Maya is the contributing author of the following books: Coaching for Leadership: How the World's Greatest Coaches Help Leaders Learn (2002); Partnering: The New Face of Leadership (2000); and A Study in Excellence: Management in the Nonprofit Human Services (1989).

In addition, she is the author of numerous leadership resource guides for clients such as AT&T, Budget Rent-a-Car, Calpers, Eastman Kodak, Johnson & Johnson, Northern Telecom, Siemens, and Sun Microsystems.

Born and raised in Taipei, Taiwan, Maya received her B.A. in Journalism from National Chengchi University in Taiwan, and Master's degree in Communications from Annenberg School of Communications at the University of Pennsylvania.