Psychiatrist Mark Goulston

Mark Goulston (born February 21, 1948) is a prominent psychiatrist and consultant to major organizations. His book, Just Listen, ranked #1 in six Amazon/Kindle categories, has been translated into 14 languages, reached #1 in Munich and Shanghai, and became the basis of a 2010 PBS special. The Consumers Research Council three times named him one of America's Top Psychiatrists, including in 2011. For over 20 years, he has been Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine at UCLA's Neuropsychiatric Institute. Goulston has appeared on Oprah, The Today Show, The Phil Donohue Show, CNN, and hosted a PBS pledge drive special. His column Solve Anything with Dr. Mark is nationally syndicated by Tribune Media Services.  He blogs for the Huffington Post, Psychology Today, Fast Company, and Business Insider, and he contributes to the Harvard Business Review.  He frequently gives keynote speeches at women's conferences.  Dr. Goulston lives in Los Angeles with his wife and three children.

Career

Goulston started a private practice. It specialized in suicide, death, and dying, including making house calls, and working with families and couples. After doing psychiatric house calls to dying patients and their family members, he was sought out to work with the surviving family and their businesses.

That expanded to his being a consultant, speaker, trainer and coach to such organizations as IBM, Goldman Sachs, Merrill Lynch, Xerox, Deutsche Bank, Hyatt, Accenture, Astra Zeneca, British Airways, Sodexo, ESPN, Kodak, Federal Express, YPO, YPOWPO India, Association for Corporate Growth, FBI, Los Angeles District Attorney, White & Case, Seyfarth Shaw, UCLA Anderson School of Management, USC, and Pepperdine University.

He has been interviewed, appeared in and/or and written for hundreds of major media, including: the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Forbes, Fortune, Los Angeles Times, CNN, MSNBC, and HLN.  He also co-hosts the Zo Williams Morning Radio Show.

In addition to the aforementioned Just Listen, Goulston's five books include Get Out of Your Own Way: Overcoming Self-Defeating Behavior, Get Out of Your Own Way at Work…and Help Others Do the Same, The 6 Secrets of a Lasting Relationship, and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder for Dummies.  His sixth book, Real Influence: Persuade Without Pushing and Gain Without Giving In, co-authored with Dr. John Ullment to be published in 2013 [available now in 2015], has been selected as the lead book for the American Management Association and has also been selected as one of the 30 Best Business Books for 2013 by Soundview Executive Summaries.

Goulston sits on the Board of Advisors at Health Corps (Dr. Mehmet Oz’s foundation) and American Women Veterans, and he is a Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association.  He is also the Co-Founder, Co-Curator and Co-Guardian of Heartfelt Leadership, an effort to bring more humanity and ultimately more profit to the workplace.

Dr. Goulston is also Co-Developer of The Exam Performance Program (R), an eLearning course which teaches students how to be calm, confident and focused so they can perform better and score better on academic exams and standardized tests. The course has been developed to (I) improve student cognitive performance and test scores on academic exams and standardized tests, (II) improve student mindset, self-confidence, self-efficacy, motivation, engagement, retention and academic trajectory, (III) eliminate/prevent test-anxiety and "stereotype-threat", and (IV) motivate STEM achievement, especially in low-income/minority/female/foster-care student groups. The Exam Performance company website and information about the Development Team is at

http://www.ExamPerformance.com and http://examperformance.enlightus.com/start.aspx?menuid=2994

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