Know Your Author - Sally Helgesen and Marshall Goldsmith #How Women Rise

Good day, Discovery Shoppers! It's yet another fantastic moment as we at Discovery Shoppe book club share our author(s) of the month with you. This month, to commemorate women's month and the International Women's Day, one which celebrates every amazing woman around the world, we are reading a women-themed book 😁.

Ladies and gents, without further ado, we would love to introduce to you the authors of our book for the month, 'How Women Rise: Break the 12 Habits Holding You Back From Your Next Raise, Promotion, Or Job', Sally Helgesen and Marshall Goldsmith.

You can also catch us on our last Know Your Author episode for February 2022 - John Gray, a relationship expert and author of Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus.

By Onyedikachi Nwachukwu | Editor: Vivian Oguguo | Discovery Shoppe Book Club

Sally Helgesen

Sally Helgesen, cited in Forbes as the world’s foremost expert on women’s leadership, is a best-selling author, international speaker and leadership coach. She has been named by Thinker’s 50 as one of the world’s top 20 coaches and was ranked number 6 among the world’s top 30 leadership and thought leaders by Global Gurus. She has also been honoured by the coaching consortium MEECO for her transformational influence on organisational culture. In 1990, Helgesen published "The Female Advantage: Women’s Ways of Leadership", the first book to focus on what women had to contribute as leaders rather than how they needed to change and adapt. The book became a best-seller and has remained in print. In 1995, Helgesen published "The Web of Inclusion: A New Architecture for Building Great Organizations", heralded as having introduced the language of inclusion into the work environment. The book was regarded as one of the best books on leadership by the Wall Street Journal. Sally’s most recent book, "How Women Rise", co-authored with the legendary executive coach Marshall Goldsmith, examines the behaviours most likely to get in the way of successful women. It became the best-seller in its field within a week of publication and, to date, has been sold in 18 languages.

In addition to delivering leadership workshops and keynotes for companies worldwide, Sally has consulted with the United Nations on building more inclusive country offices in Africa and Asia. She is a contributing editor for Strategy + Business magazine, MG 100 Coaching Network member, and the New York and International Women’s Forums. She lives in Chatham, New York.

Marshall Goldsmith

Dr Marshall Goldsmith is the only two-time winner of the Thinkers 50 Award for Leadership Thinkers in the World. He has been ranked as the number one executive coach in the World and recognised as one of the Top ten business thinkers globally for the past eight years. Dr Goldsmith was recently chosen as the inaugural winner of the Lifetime Achievement Award for Leadership by the Institute of Coaching at Harvard Medical School. Marshall Goldsmith is the top authority on leadership and coaching for behavioural change, with almost 40 years of practical experience. Marshall, who has a PhD from UCLA, is a pioneer in using 360-degree feedback as a tool for leadership advancement. His early efforts in offering feedback and then following up with CEOs to assess behavioural changes were forerunners to what became the profession of executive coaching.

Dr Goldsmith is the author and/or editor of 36 books, which have sold over two million copies, been translated into 32 languages and become listed bestsellers in twelve countries. His three New York Times bestsellers are Triggers, “Mojo: How to Get It, How to Keep It, How to Get It Back If You Lose It”, and What Got You Here Won’t Get You There - the Harold Longman Award winner for Business Book of the Year. In 2016, Amazon.com recognised the ‘100 Best Leadership & Success Books’ in its To Read in Your Lifetime series. The list included classics and newer books - management and self-help books. Both Triggers and What Got You Here Won’t Get You There were recognised as being in the top 100 books ever written in their field. Marshall is only one of two authors with two books on the list. Marshall has received numerous awards and recognitions, some of which are Harvard Business Review and Best Practices Institute’s World’s number one Leadership Thinker, Global Gurus, Inc. and Fast Company magazines’ World’s number one Executive Coach, Institute for Management Studies’ Lifetime Achievement Award for Excellence in Teaching, American Management Association’s 50 great thinkers and leaders who have influenced the field of management over the past 80 years, BusinessWeek’s 50 great leaders in America, Wall Street Journal’s top ten executive educators, Economist (UK)’s most credible executive advisors in the new era of business, National Academy of Human Resources’ Fellow of the Academy (America’s top HR award), World HRD Congress (India)’s the global leader in HR thinking. His work has been recognised by almost every professional organisation in his field.

Marshall currently lives in La Jolla, California, with his wife, Lyda. He has a son, Bryan Goldsmith, and a daughter, Kelly Goldsmith. Goldsmith has described himself as a "philosophical Buddhist."

If you want to know even more about our author for the month, I've attached a few links below for you. Do have a great month! You can follow them on social media and visit their book website howwomenrise.com