The shortlist of thinkers for the Thinkers50 2023 Marshall Goldsmith Coaching and Mentoring Award, in partnership with professional coaching platform, Coaching.com has been announced, and the results will be in this month (November).

Heres the shortlisted thinkers and the books for which they have been nominated: 

Positive psychology in coaching expert Robert Biswas-Diener – Positive Provocation: 25 Questions to Elevate Your Coaching Practice (Berrett-Koehler, 2023).

Michael Bungay Stanier, founder of Box of Crayons – How to Work With (Almost) Anyone: Five Questions for Building the Best Possible Relationships (Page Two Books, 2023).

Jennifer Garvey Berger, co-founder and CEO of Cultivating Leadership – Unleash Your Complexity Genius: Growing Your Inner Capacity to Lead (with Carolyn Coughlin, SUP, 2022).

Peter Hawkins, chairman of Renewal Associates and joint founder of the Global Team Coaching Institute ­– Leadership Team Coaching: Developing Collective Transformational Leadership (Kogan Page 4th ed., 2021) and Leadership Team Coaching in Practice (Kogan Page 3rd ed., 2022).

Haesun Moon, communication scientist, semiotician, and educator ­­– Coaching A to Z: The Extraordinary Use of Ordinary Words (Page Two, 2022). 

 David Noble, founder of VIEW Advisors, and Carol Kauffman, assistant professor at Harvard Medical School and executive director of the Institute of Coaching – Real-Time Leadership: Find Your Winning Moves When the Stakes Are High (HBR Press, 2023). 

Jonathan Passmore, senior vice president at EZRA Coaching, LHH and professor of coaching at Henley Business School – Coach Me! Your Personal Board of Directors (with Brian Underhill and Marshall Goldsmith, Wiley, 2022); Third Wave Cognitive Behavioural Coaching (with Sarah Leach, Pavilion Publishing and Media, 2022), and Coaching Practiced (with David Tee, Wiley 2022).

Marcia Reynolds – Breakthrough Coaching: Creating Lightbulb Moments in Your Coaching Conversations (Berrett-Koehler).