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Carol Goldsmith, The Discovery Coach, has turned the techniques that allowed her to overcome lifelong fears to swim with the dolphins in the Florida Keys, walk barefoot across a bed of red-hot coals, jump off a 60-foot telephone pole toward a flying trapeze, and appear at ease on national television, into a quick-change coaching methodology that has helped hundreds of clients on four continents discover how to be their best.
Since entering the coaching profession at the turn of the century, Carol has been a featured speaker and workshop leader at two International Coach Federation conferences, the International Accelerated Learning Conference, the Philadelphia Coaches Alliance Expo, Life-Span Annual Conference, Council for Non-Profit Innovation, National-Louis University Women’s Leadership Conference, George Mason University’s Department of Psychology, and American University’s Kogod School of Business.
A graduate of the Coaches Training Institute, Carol holds designations as a Professional Certified Coach (PCC) from the International Coach Federation, certified trainer in Neuro-Linguistic Programming from the Midlantic Training Institute for NLP, and practitioner of Ericksonian hypnosis from the American Academy of Hypnosis Training. She has studied personally with Richard Bandler, the co-developer of NLP, and with Anthony Robbins, whose translation of NLP into best-selling books, audio programs, and seminars has made him an international celebrity coach.
Coaching is Carol’s third career. Prior to entering the profession in 1999, she spent 17 years traveling throughout the Peoples Republic of China, first as a reporter and later as a tourism and hotel industry executive. Her many appearances on international television, radio, and in major print media were credited with helping to restore travel ties between the U.S. and China after the Chinese government’s crackdown on protestors in Tiananmen Square. As a travel expert, she has written for or been interviewed by the CBS “Early Show,” The New York Times, The Washington Post, USA Today, The Asian Wall Street Journal, TV Guide, American Film, Travel Holiday, The China Business Review, and Asia magazine.
After earning her journalism degree at Ohio University, Carol worked as a magazine, newspaper, and television journalist. She is the author of four books in the fields of tourism and coaching, including her new book on Return on Experience.
