Ruth Gotian
- Chief Learning Officer, Weill Cornell Medicine
- Contributor: HBR * Fast Company * Forbes * Psych Today
- Thinkers50 Radar
- Fmr Asst Dean, Mentoring
- Global & TEDx Speaker | Author
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Ruth Gotian Speaker Biography
Dr. Ruth Gotian studies success–extreme success–and teaches people how to achieve it on their own. For her research, she has interviewed some of the most successful people in the world, including Nobel Prize winners, astronauts, Olympians, and NBA champions, uncovering the strategies behind their achievements and sharing actionable insights with audiences worldwide. Hailed by Nature, Wall Street Journal, and NBC News, she was named a top 20 mentor worldwide. Thinkers50 ranked her as the #1 emerging management thinker in 2021 and, in 2024, as a top 50 executive coach globally. LinkedIn recognized her as a top voice in mentoring, and she was a semi-finalist for Forbes 50 Over 50.
A prolific contributor to Harvard Business Review, Fast Company, Forbes, and Psychology Today, Ruth focuses on the mindset and skill set of peak performers. She is also the award-winning author of The Success Factor and The Financial Times Guide to Mentoring—the only author to have her work turned into a theme song, titled “I’m Possible.”
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Ruth Gotian’s insights are in high demand across diverse sectors aiming to transform high potentials into high performers, spanning academia, finance, law, technology, and the military.
She’s given hundreds of talks to audiences ranging from high school students to corporate C-Suite.
In audiences with thousands of participants, she makes every person feel special and that they matter.
