Phoenix, AZ -- (SBWIRE) -- 10/23/2017 -- Dr. Mark Goulston will join Dave to speak about his work on listening and empathy, as well as his weekly podcast, "Prison Letters with Dr. Mark Goulston". Goulston joins a long list of prominent returning Big Beacon Radio guests including John Kotter, Kerry Hannon, Rick Miller, Dan Pink, and many others who have been interviewed on Big Beacon Radio since its premiere in 2015.

Dr. Mark Goulston is the author of "Just Listen," the top book on listening in the world. His most recent book is "Talking to Crazy: How to Deal with the Irrational and Impossible People in Your Life." He is founder and co-CEO of the Goulston Group, a business advisory and training company, co-founder of Heartfelt Leadership, founder of the campaign, Healing the World, One Conversation at a Time, and chief learning officer of the POP Protocol that trains law enforcement and civilians to prevent escalation during police pullovers.

A former UCLA professor of psychiatry and FBI and police hostage negotiation trainer, Dr. Goulston also hosts "Prison Letters with Dr. Mark Goulston", a weekly podcast where Goulston reads letters sent to him from inmates and proceeds to empathize with the writer, as well as educate podcast listeners on what he discovers about their minds and their humanity.

David E. Goldberg is an educational long jumper and catalyst, bringing together the ideas, people, and effective processes for transforming higher education. Toward the end of a 27-year distinguished academic career in which Dave achieved renown for his path-breaking work on genetic algorithms and artificial intelligence, he founded the iFoundry incubator for educational change at the University of Illinois.

In 2012, Dave founded Big Beacon as a non-profit organization for transforming higher education. Today, Big Beacon connects students, innovators, and employers together to learn from each other and to make bold little bets and take action toward transforming higher education. In 2014, he co-authored the groundbreaking book, "A Whole New Engineer: The Coming Revolution in Engineering Education" with Mark Somerville of Olin College.

For more information on Dave and his work, go to http://www.bigbeacon.org.

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