Bill Hawkins Biography

Bill Hawkins uses the latest research on leadership effectiveness coupled with on -the- job experience to deliver practical, high impact leadership education workshops, keynotes, and highly effective executive one-on-one coaching. In association with Marshall Goldsmith Partners for more than fifteen years, Hawkins goal is positive, lasting change in behavior for leaders, their people and their teams. A dynamic speaker for small or large groups, he really shines in workshops, and has facilitated leadership education workshops on five continents. Hawkins uses his experience as a sales and marketing executive to bring a breadth of understanding and insight to “real world” situations, and has intimate understanding of the pressures faced by the health care industry, or any industry focused on sales. Popular workshops reveal 16 habits that cause salespeople to stumble, the key indicators for high potential employees, and performance based coaching tools and techniques. Like his mentor, Marshall Goldsmith, Hawkins job is not only to help people learn, but to help people do.

Hawkins began his career with a division of Johnson & Johnson. He then joined Boston Scientific Corporation as director and then vice president of sales and marketing, before joining Marshall Goldsmith Partners. In addition to co-authoring many research projects, Hawkins is the co-author of the hotly anticipated What Got You Here Won’t Get You There in Sales, the spin off of Goldsmith’s New York Times best-seller What Got You Here Won’t Get You There.

Hawkins clients include American Express, AT&T, BellSouth, GlaxoSmithKline, Johnson & Johnson, Kodak, SUN Microsystems, Toyota, Washington Mutual Financial Services, and Weyerhaeuser. Aside from his work with major corporations, Hawkins has donated his services to the International Red Cross/Red Crescent, the New York Association for New Americans, and the Girl Scouts of the USA.

Hawkins is a member of the Learning Network, the Peter Drucker Foundation Thought Leader’s Forum, and is listed in Who’s Who in International Business.  He is a contributing author in the Peter Drucker Foundation book The Organization of the Future, and is also a contributing author in Coaching for Leadership, and Change Champion’s Fieldguide. He holds a BS from Drake University and an MBA from Indiana University.

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