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Mark Goulston

Mark Goulston, M.D.
Author and Clinical Psychologist

Mark Goulston is the best-selling author of three books, including Get Out of Your Own Way: Overcoming Self-Defeating Behavior. He writes regular columns for Fast Company, the National Association of Corporate Directors, Knight Ridder/Tribune, and the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences. He is frequently called upon to share his expertise in outlets such as The Wall Street Journal, Harvard Business Review, Fortune, Newsweek, Time, Los Angeles Times, ABC, NBC, CBS, Fox, CNN, BBC News, Oprah, and The Today Show.

Dr. Goulston didn't begin his career as a clinical psychiatrist with the intention of going into the business world. It came calling. In his clinical practice, he was often consulted to ease the medical and psychological pain and suffering of patients in their last weeks of life, and also to resolve longstanding family conflicts.

Unsurprisingly, those conflicts often extended beyond the dying individual to the companies and empires they had built during their lives, and he soon found himself asked to intervene in their dysfunctional family businesses. Over time, it became clear that the skills Dr. Goulston had developed as a clinical psychologist were completely transferable to the workplace.

To complement his academic background, Dr. Goulston further developed and honed his skills as a "road warrior", working with companies to help them meet and surmount their real world challenges head on. A partial list of companies and organizations he has trained, spoken to, provided executive coaching to or consulted with include: GE, IBM, Goldman Sachs, Merrill Lynch, Kodak, Federal Express, FBI, Los Angeles District Attorney, White & Case, Seyfarth Shaw.

Dr. Goulston holds a B.A. from UC Berkeley, an M.D. from Boston University, and did his post-graduate residency in psychiatry at UCLA. He was a professor at UCLA's internationally renowned Neuropsychiatric Institute for more than twenty years, became an American Psychiatric Association Fellow (the highest award that organization offers), and was named one of America's Top Psychiatrists for 2004-2005 by Washington, D.C. based Consumers’ Research Council of America.

Dr. Goulston is available for leadership development, executive coaching, new manager training, and to deliver the following lectures, as keynotes or in training sessions:

Get Out of Your Own Way and Help Others Do the Same
How to Be Ethical AND Profitable
Become the Leader YOU Would Most Admire
Effective Persuasion: A Hostage Negotiator's Approach
Just Say "No" to Jerks: The Easy Way to Deal with Difficult People
Wealth is What You Take from the World, Worth is What You Give Back
The Best Life Possible: How to Make It Happen
Who's the Boss Now? Be As Successful in Your Life As You are in Your Business
Tough Enough? Raise Your Child to Succeed in a Competitive World