What separates a good coach from a truly great one? Knowing when to change the approach.
Join Dr. Carol Kauffman, Dr. Marshall Goldsmith, and Suzie Bishop for a dynamic conversation that challenges one-size-fits-all coaching. Drawing from their new book, MATCH: The Situational Coaching Approach to Meeting Leaders Where They Are, they’ll explore how to read what a leader needs in the moment, adapt your coaching with intention, and know when to push, when to step back, and when to try something entirely different.
Come away with a practical new lens for making your coaching more flexible, responsive, and impactful.
Meet Our Speakers
Marshall Goldsmith
Thinkers 50 Hall of Fame, Bestselling Author, Executive Coach
Dr. Goldsmith is widely recognized as the number one executive coach and leadership thinker in the world. With over 40 years of experience, Dr. Goldsmith has coached over 200 major CEOs and executives, including the former CEO of Ford, the former President of the World Bank, and other executives at Fortune 500 Companies.
Dr. Goldsmith is a member of the Thinkers 50 Hall of Fame. He is the only person to be recognized twice by Thinkers 50 as the #1 Leadership Thinker in the World and has been ranked as the World’s #1 Executive Coach and Top Ten Business Thinker for nearly a decade. Dr. Goldsmith was also chosen as the inaugural winner of the Lifetime Award for Leadership by the Harvard Institute of Coaching.
Dr. Goldsmith is the author or editor of 52 books, which have sold over 4 million copies, been translated into 36 languages, and become listed bestsellers in 12 countries. Amazon.com recently recognized their ‘100 Best Leadership & Success Books’ where his books, Triggers and What Got You Here Won’t Get You There, were both recognized as being in the Top 100 books ever written in their field. Dr. Goldsmith is one of only two authors with two books on the list.
Dr. Goldsmith is also the recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award for Leadership Education by the Institute of Management Studies and has been recognized by the American Management Association as one of the 50 most influential leaders in management in the last 80 years. BusinessWeek also recognized Dr. Goldsmith among the 50 greatest leaders in America.
Suzie Bishop
Suzie Bishop is the Vice President of Product Development at The Center for Leadership Studies, the global home of the Situational Leadership® Model, which is the most successful and widely adopted leadership framework available worldwide.
As an established leader and presenter in the field of leadership development, Suzie drives innovative, experiential learning solutions to better equip leaders for the modern workplace.
She holds a bachelor’s degree in communication and media from North Carolina State University and is a Certified Professional in Training Management (CPTM) and Stakeholder Centered Coach.
Suzie is also a member of Marshall Goldsmith’s 100 Coaches community, is a columnist for Training Industry Magazine, and was recognized as an Elliott Masie 30 Under 30 leader. In 2025, she was named a Silver Stevie Award winner for “Most Resilient Female Leader” and authored a top 10% LinkedIn article in Leader to Leader Journal.
Meet Our Host
For over 30 years Dr. Kauffman has taught at Harvard Medical School where she is an Assistant Professor. She is the Founder of the Institute of Coaching (IOC) which began with a $2,000,000 award she received in 2009 from the Harnisch Foundation. As a leader with an entrepreneurial spirit, she launched: the Institute of Coaching membership program which now has over 4000 members worldwide; founded and co-chairs the Coaching in Leadership and Healthcare Conference, a collaboration of the IOC, McLean and Harvard Medical School; the International Coaching Leadership Forum and with Manfred Kets de Vries is the annual featured speaker at the European School of Management and Technology Coaching Colloquia. She recently chaired the annual meeting of the Consulting Psychologist division of the American Psychological Association and the Applied & Applied Research Division at the International Positive Psychology Association conference.
