David Goldsmith is a founder and longtime leader of the executive coaching profession. For more than 30 years, he’s expanded and improved coaching globally through training, advocacy, and organizational leadership. During that time, he’s also coached hundreds of executives and entrepreneurs to quickly achieve better results and greater success.

David is an EMCC Global EIA Master Practitioner Mentor and Coach, EMCC Global Accredited ESIA Supervisor and EMCC Global ITCA Team Coach. While personable and approachable, David is known for the speed and efficacy with which he helps clients solve difficult problems, make significant improvements and proceed directly to their goals. Insightful, incisive, and forthright, David is uniquely efficient in identifying opportunities, catalyzing progress, and delivering value.

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. In addition to educating other coaches, David serves as an executive coach to senior leaders worldwide in companies like Google, Meta, and Boston Consulting Group. Many of his clients work in the tech, healthcare, professional services, fintech, and construction industries.

With offices in Santa Fe, New Mexico, and Melbourne, Australia, David is the founder of The Goldsmith Group, and 7 Paths Forward (7PF), and is also the Dean of the Platinum Program at Coaching.com. Through 7PF’s Accelerating Coaching Excellence (ACE) program, accredited with EMCC Global, David has built a vibrant and growing global community of 3,000+ elite and uniquely certified professional coaches. He is routinely one of the top 5 speakers at Coaching.com/(WBECs) annual Summit with over 15k attending.

When he’s not busy improving the quality of coaching and leadership worldwide, David enjoys spending time with his family, collecting art, crafting artisan breads, sipping excellent espresso, and making cheese.