Sessions

Dr. Marshall Goldsmith is now a member of the Thinkers50 Hall of Fame.  He is the only two-time #1 Leadership Thinker in the World.  Marshall was recognized as the World’s Most-Influential Leadership Coach for years.  He has coached many of the world’s top leaders including five who have been recognized as ‘CEO of the Year’ in the US.  He is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of books that have sold over 3 million copies.  

Mark Thompson is Chief Executive Officer of the CEO Academy, a SHRM company, and long ranked the world’s #1 CEO Coach. He was in 2023 inducted into the Coaching Legends Hall of Fame by the Thinkers50, considered the Oscars of Management. Thompson previously served as Schwab’s chief of staff, chief customer experience officer and CEO of Schwab.com. He was a cofounding advisor to the Virgin Branson Entrepreneurship Centres; a board member of Esurance, acquired by Allstate; and Interwoven, acquired by Hewlett Packard. He was Chairman of Integration Semiconductor, acquired by SiliconLabs and Chairman of Rioport, which pioneered the mp3 player for Apple’s iPod. He was cofounding advisor to the Stanford Realtime Venture Design Lab, where he served as a visiting scholar and faculty at his alma mater, Stanford University. Thompson is also adjunct faculty at the World Economic Forum, World Business Forum, John F. Kennedy University, and has cochaired the Institute of Coaching at Harvard. He has edited 20 books and coauthored business classic, Success Built to Last: Creating a Life That Matters; and the New York Times bestseller, Admired.

In this interactive dialogue, Mark and Marshall will discuss the evolution of MarshallGoldsmith.ai.  Participants will learn how it has evolved far beyond the designers' expectations and learn how they can use it, as a free resource, anytime they wish.  Mark and Marshall will then share the future plans for this resource and talk about how AI will revolutionize leadership development in the future.  They will also discuss the unique challenges involved in designing a customized, knowledge-sharing bot and provide ideas on how HR professionals might ultimately use AI that has specifically built for their own organizations.