Joan Goldsmith

Joan Goldsmith, M.A., H.L.D (Doctor of Humane Letters), has been an educator, coach, mediator, facilitator, and organizational consultant with higher education, government agencies, public and corporate sector organizations for over forty years, specializing in leadership development, diversity and organizational equity, organizational change, team building, strategic planning, organizational design and development, collaborative or win/win negotiation, and conflict resolution. She was an administrator and faculty member at the Graduate School of Education at Harvard University, where she directed the Masters of Arts in Teaching program. She was founder of the Institute of Open Education at Newton College of the Sacred Heart and Director of the undergraduate and graduate school to lead it to become Cambridge College, for adult professionals. She taught high school in Boston and has been an adjunct professor and organizational consultant for UCLA, Cambridge College, USC, Antioch University, College of the Bahamas, and Southern Methodist University, and is currently teaching at Pepperdine University School of Law, Straus Institute on Dispute Resolution.She has been a consultant to numerous corporate and educational clients in private practice and as a Principal and organizational consultant with the Index Group. In partnership with Sidney and Yulin Rittenberg, she was a founding Director of Index China, a consulting company dedicated to providing advice to U.S. corporations seeking to work in China. She has been an executive coach and consultant on a variety of organizational issues to schools, health care organizations, universities, government agencies, and Fortune 100 companies in the United States and internationally. She has served on the Boards of Directors of Cambridge College, The Teachers Network, Deaf Self-help, Mar Vista Family Center, the Coro Foundation, and Theatre Comique. She is a mediator and trainer in conflict resolution specializing in school, workplace and organizational conflicts. In the international sector, she has worked in collaborative partnerships with indigenous leaders in the Southern Hemisphere, and has had numerous international professional engagements, including in Mexico, Brazil, Canada, Cuba, the Bahamas, Japan, China, India, Zimbabwe, the Netherlands, Belgium, Scotland and England.