Howard Goldman is an American author, management consultant, executive performance coach, speaker and travel blogger. Goldman is the author of Choose What Works: The Proven Secrets to Professional Greatness, in which he shares his step-by-step approach used by leaders and teams at international organizations, including Fortune 500 companies. His firm, Management Associates provides a broad range of consulting services including the development of winning strategies, innovative ways of managing change, and the mobilization of high-performance teams.They have personally inspired more than 10,000 leaders worldwide.e. Clients of Management Associates include: Hewlett-Packard, Apple Computer, Walt Disney, Cisco Systems, AOL, Morgan Stanley, Nokia, Land Rover, Tommy Hilfiger, SAP, NEC, Yahoo!, at&t, SanDisk, National Institutes of Health, as well as numerous hi-tech start-ups. Additionally, he has served as a venture partner with Outlook Ventures in San Francisco, an early-stage venture capital firm. He has been Board Director and strategic adviser to technology start-up companies, including eBook, True Balance Solutions, and Comvergics Systems. Goldman was the Chairman of the faculty of the Center for Management Design, a “corporate university” for senior executives. He has lectured on consultative strategies at John F. Kennedy University.