ABOUT THE EDITORS
David Giber is a senior vice president in charge of leadership development and consulting at Linkage Inc. with over twenty-five years of experience in organizational development, human resource management, leadership development, and executive coaching. Nationally known as a leader in his field, Giber helps transform companies into high-performing organizations by creating integrated human resource and leadership systems with measurable business impact. He has consulted with leaders from a wide variety of international corporations, universities, and other organizations on such issues as succession planning, management development, action learning, executive coaching, workforce assessment, and developing performance and selection systems. An experienced executive coach, he helps leaders achieve professional and personal success by focusing on both the hard business skills they need and personal development and leadership qualities. He has also used his expertise as a facilitator at many senior executive meetings and retreats, as well as international conferences. He helped design many of the Macy’s leadership programs described in Chapter Thirteen in this book.
Giber has served in director-level positions in human resource management and leadership development for leading companies in the high-tech, financial services, and travel industries. He is an industrial/ organizational psychologist and received his B.A. degree from Stanford University and his Ph.D. from Duke University. He is the editor of two top-selling books in the field: The Leadership Development Handbook and Best Practices in Organization and Human Resources Handbook.
Giber’s clients include Allergan, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, LEGO, Levi Strauss, Macy’s, Principal Financial Group, Sallie Mae, Schering Plough, Toyota, Varian Semiconductor, and Wyeth.
Sam Lam is the president of Linkage Asia and one of Asia’s top practitioners in the field of leadership development. His work focuses on the development of leadership competency models to support business growth and innovation, culture change, and top team effectiveness. In addition, he serves as executive coach and advisor to a number of notable CEOs and senior government officials in Singapore, Europe, and Asia.
Prior to his appointment at Linkage Asia, Lam was the managing consultant for Towers Perrin Singapore, where he led an office of top human resource practitioners in performance leadership, executive compensation, sales incentive design, and compensation, benefits, and talent management. Previously he was director of the HayGroup, where he spent five years leading major projects in leadership development, organizational improvement, and performance management.
His major clients include GlaxoSmithKline, Unilever, Prudential, CIMB Bank, and various branches of the Singapore government.
Lam graduated with a B.A. from the University of Southern California and has an M.A. from the National University of Singapore.
Marshall Goldsmith is a coach to top executives in many of the world’s leading companies, a prominent speaker and educator, and the well-known author of many books and articles on leadership. He is one of the foremost authorities on how to help leaders achieve positive, measurable changes in their own behavior and in the behavior of their people and teams. Goldsmith cofounded Marshall Goldsmith Partners, a network of top-level executive coaches.
Recently the American Management Association named Goldsmith one of fifty great thinkers and leaders who have influenced the field of management over the past eighty years, and BusinessWeek listed him as one of the most influential practitioners in the history of leadership development. He is a Fellow of the National Academy of Human Resources, America’s top human resource honor. His work has been featured in a New Yorker profile, a Harvard Business Review interview, and a Business Strategy Review (London Business School) cover story. Major business press acknowledgments include Wall Street Journal (“one of the top ten executive educators”), Forbes (“one of five most-respected executive coaches”), Economic Times (India; “one of five rajgurus of America”); Economist (UK; “one of three most credible executive advisors in the new era of business), and Fast Company (“America’s preeminent executive coach”).
Goldsmith’s Ph.D. is from the University of California, Los Angeles. He teaches executive education at Dartmouth’s Tuck School and frequently speaks at leading business schools. His work has been recognized by almost every professional organization in his field. In 2006 Alliant International University honored him by naming its school of business and organizational studies the Marshall Goldsmith School of Management.
Justin Bourke is a program manager at Linkage. In this role, he assumes design and delivery responsibility for two of Linkage’s flagship leadership development programs, the Global Institute for Leadership Development and the Best Practices in Leadership Development Summit. During his tenure with Linkage, he has served in key leadership roles in the production of a number of recent publications, first as production head for Linkage’s Best Practices in Succession Planning and later working with John Hammergren and Phil Harkins as research head and coauthor of Skin in the Game: How Putting Yourself First Today Will Revolutionize Healthcare Tomorrow.
Bourke graduated with a B.S. from the University of New Hampshire.
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