Michael J. Goldberg works with teams, organizations and their leaders around the world. He teaches and writes about the Enneagram system of personality types and trains trainers of the system. He is the author of Travels with Odysseus: Uncommon Wisdom from Homer's Odyssey, which brings the lessons of Homer's Odyssey to modern life, and the best-selling The 9 Ways of Working, which brings the Enneagram to business. 9 Ways has been translated into Spanish, Korean, Chinese and German. The American Management Association's official newsletter Getting Results calls 9 Ways "practical and immediately useful." The Canadian Manager calls the book "clear, concise and easy to follow" and recommends readers "Keep it right on your desk!"

Clients include Motorola, VLSI Technology, Honeywell International, The Central Intelligence Agency, The Internal Revenue Service, World Travel BTI, Philips Electronics (France), Los Angeles City College, Oakland Community College, Nu-Ear Electronics, TopHuman Technology (Hong Kong), Bidvest (South Africa), St. Francis Medical Center, Community Memorial Hospital (Ventura, CA), Farmers Insurance, Wells Fargo and many smaller companies and non-profit agencies in North America, Europe, Asia and Africa.

His original Enneagram work has been widely recognized, including articles in New York Newsday; Cosmopolitan; World Business; Fast Company; Organizational Research/Management Science Today; The International Personnel Management Association News; Personnel Psychology, Incentive, Sales and Marketing Management; Human Resource Executive and Men's Health. He has been featured on CNN and in an hour-long interview on the Fox News Channel. Internationally, reports of his work have appeared in The Guardian and Daily Mail in London, The Scotsman, The Sowetan (South Africa), Odyssey (South Africa) and on ABC (Australia), CBC (Canada) and the BBC (UK).

Michael has been on the faculty of graduate schools of management, psychology and law. He has taught for Esalen Institute and the U.S. government's Management Development Center for senior executives. An attorney and certified mediator, he has mediated hundreds of disputes, including large-scale community controversies. Michael was longtime Chairman of the Board of Emperor's College of Oriental Medicine, one of the oldest and largest acupuncture schools in the U.S., and he has been a board member and Director of Programs for GREX, the professional group relations society. He was on the committee that created the first International Enneagram Conference at Stanford University.