Prof. Goldsmith received her doctorate from Yale University in 2009. Next, she joined the faculty of the Kellogg School of Management where she was consistently one of the highest rated instructors, receiving multiple honors and awards for both her research and teaching. In 2014, she was named as one of the "Top 40 Most Outstanding B-School Professors in the World Under 40" (Poets & Quants) and one of "Eight Young B-School Professors on the Rise" (Fortune). In 2017, she joined the Owen Graduate School of Management at Vanderbilt where she is currently a full professor with an endowed chair. She lives in Nashville with her husband and their twins.
In addition to her research and teaching, Dr. Goldsmith works with a wide range of corporate audiences on topics including but not limited to:
Leveraging constraints for motivation (examples: time scarcity; financial deficits; resource constraints)
Optimizing marketing and communications using insights from behavioral science
Enabling customer centricity through consumer psychology (B2B and B2C)