OUR TEAM
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David Goldsmith
FOUNDER AND CEO
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.
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.
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Tracy Cooper
FACULTY
Tracy Cooper is an acclaimed international executive coach known for her transformative work with top-tier executives. Leaders seek out Tracy when they are poised for professional and personal evolution, ready to expand their scope and embrace a growth mindset. Her approach enables leaders to transition from existing motivations to becoming sources of inspiration, reshaping their behaviours and leadership styles to become formidable in their field.
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Nicole Forward
FACULTY
Nicole has spent the last two decades working with executive leaders in Fortune 100 companies as a coach, consultant and leadership development expert. With her deep knowledge of the executive coaching industry, she has helped companies build, scale and operationalize their internal executive coaching practice to achieve their business goals and mobilize the development of leaders while achieving a measurable return on their investments. She has also worked with executives in a variety of industries as they transition into new roles, new companies, or new stages of their life and career. Her approach is to dig into the underlying beliefs and habits that are often the root of executive level success to achieve what her clients never thought was possible.
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Samantha Cooprider
FACULTY
Samantha Cooprider (aka Sam or Scoop) is a powerhouse in leadership development and organizational effectiveness, known for helping leaders anticipate challenges and spark innovation. A culture and systems-thinking enthusiast, Sam brings over 25 years of experience leading at some of the world’s most transformative companies, including Meta (formerly Facebook), Google, and Tesla. She’s also served as CEO of Learning as Leadership and even opened and ran a fitness studio in Vallejo, CA—proving her knack for building thriving communities in any space.
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Anna Tan
FACULTY
Anna’s flair in executive coaching empowers leaders to become the inspirational role model they desire to be, where their company and their teams are proud to be led by them, and those whom they love in their personal life, feel enriched by having them in their lives.
Leaders come to Anna for coaching when they need business and professional transformation, both in mindset and performance. To shift from fixed to growth mindset, from motivation to inspiration, to discover how to change their behaviours and adapt their working style and become unstoppable.
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Neha Sangwan, MD
FACULTY
Neha Sangwan, MD, CEO and founder of Intuitive Intelligence, is an internal medicine physician, engineer, international speaker, executive coach, and corporate communication expert. Her private practice and corporate consulting focus on empowering individuals, organizational leaders, and their teams with the tools for clear, effective communication. She addresses the root causes of stress, miscommunication, and interpersonal conflict, often healing chronic conditions such as headaches, insomnia, anxiety, depression, and burnout.
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Emma Noguchi
FACULTY
Emma is the Managing Director of Coaching Go Where, and heads up our Coaching Institute. She is an ICF Master Certified Coach (MCC), trainer and facilitator in leadership development.
For the past decade, Emma has been focused on coaching and developing leaders and leadership teams. With an unwavering faith in human potential, Emma coaches aspiring managers, directors and executives from various industries, focusing on helping them gain clarity and self-awareness. She also teaches coaching skills to managers so they can in turn -develop and coach their team members- to unleash greater performance.
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Marcy Swenson
FACULTY
As an executive coach working with growth-stage CEOs and tech leaders, a startup founder with multiple exits, and a managing partner at a seed-stage investment fund, Marcy has deep knowledge of the entrepreneur’s journey from multiple perspectives. Following a successful career co-founding 3 tech companies (CPTH to IPO in 1999), Marcy became one of the first executive coaches working with startup founders.
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Nadia Batirev
CHIEF OF STAFF