Mark Goulston, M.D., is a business advisor, consultant, trainer and coach trained as a clinical psychiatrist who honed his skills as an FBI/police hostage negotiation trainer. He writes a regular column called, "Getting through to Anybody," for divorce360. Dr. Goulston's development started with his education: a B.A. from UC Berkeley, an M.D. from Boston University, post graduate residency in psychiatry at UCLA.
He went on to be a professor at UCLA's internationally renowned neuropsychiatric Institute for more than 20 years, become a Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association (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. 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, Xerox, Deutsche Bank, Hyatt, Accenture, Astra Zenica, Kodak, Federal Express and the FBI.
He is the best-selling author of four books including "Get Out of Your Own Way at Work...and Help Others Do the Same (Perigee, 2006)," is a contributor to Harvard Business, the Tribune media syndicated column, "Solve Anything with Dr. Mark," column on leadership for "FAST COMPANY." He has been quoted in "The Wall Street Journal", "Harvard Business Review", "Fortune", "Newsweek", "Time", "Los Angeles Times", ABC/NBC/CBS/Fox/CNN/BBC News, Oprah and Today. His Web site is
http://www.markgoulston.com/.