Matt Goswick
Studied at University of Central Arkansas
Worked at eBay
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About Matt
I’m an introvert who would usually choose one meaningful conversation over working a room full of people. That preference has shaped both my life and the way I coach. My career has taken several unexpected turns. I began in accounting and spent more than a decade at Deloitte, eventually becoming an Audit Senior Manager. I later joined eBay, where I worked in SEC reporting, finance, analytics, and investor relations, including international assignments in Germany and Spain. Ultimately, I left a 15-year accounting and finance career to lead eBay’s global leadership-development programs. My life outside large companies has been just as varied. My wife, Gina, and I met in college and later owned a franchise bakery in downtown Denver. I also co-founded a software startup through its initial-revenue stage. I have experienced leadership as an adviser, manager, employee, coach, founder, and business owner. I understand what it feels like when the answer is unclear, the decision is personal, and other people are depending on your judgment. I naturally look for the patterns and assumptions underneath a complicated situation. My coaching is structured, direct, and thoughtful. I help clients separate what is actually happening from the story surrounding it so they can make decisions they understand and can genuinely stand behind.
Why do I coach?
I coach because I know firsthand how much the right coaching conversation can change someone’s life. During eBay’s Finance Leadership Development Program, I worked with a coach for the first time. Early in that relationship, she challenged me to look beyond tasks, accomplishments, or the next career move and begin asking bigger questions about who I was, what mattered to me, and what I wanted my life to mean. Those questions became much more real during an international assignment in Berlin, when my mother died after a long battle with cancer. I was grieving, living overseas, reconsidering what success meant, and beginning to recognize how much of my life had been organized around changing external circumstances rather than understanding my internal experience. As the program ended, I faced a major decision: continue along the accounting and finance path I had followed for 15 years or move into leadership development. Coaching helped me recognize that being good at something did not obligate me to spend the rest of my career doing it. I chose leadership development and enrolled in professional coach training shortly afterward. That experience continues to shape why I coach. Capable people often become stuck not because they lack intelligence or ambition, but because they are operating from assumptions, expectations, or identities they have never stopped to examine. I coach to give people the kind of space I once needed: a place to speak honestly, see their situation more clearly, and make a conscious decision about who they want to be and what they want to do next.
Work Experience
Executive Coach
Matt Goswick Executive Coaching
March 2024 - Present
Executive Coaching, Coaching and +3 skills
Program Manager, Global Leadership Development
eBay
August 2018 - March 2024
Responsible for the eBay Leadership Development Programs. Analytics Leadership Development Program (ALDP) and the Finance Leadership Develop Program (FLDP). Leading the end to end program management including branding, recruiting, interviewing candidates, on-boarding, oversight of rotations, and placement into off-program roles. Coaching participants through their journey of Leadership Development. Developing learning curriculum to support the development of the programs.
Finance Leadership Development Program
eBay
July 2016 - August 2018
I was one of five finance professionals selected for the eBay Finance Leadership Development program. The two year program focuses on identifying and developing eBay's future finance leaders consisting of four 6-month rotations within different finance areas, and different geographical locations across the globe and across eBay's businesses with intensive training, mentorship, and broad exposure to senior leadership. 1st rotation: North America Vertical Analytics & Finance (San Jose, CA) 2nd rotation: Germany FP&A (Berlin, Germany) 3rd rotation: StubHub International FP&A and Business Performance (Bilbao, Spain) 4th rotation: Investor Relations (San Jose, CA)
Senior Accounting Manager, SEC Reporting
eBay
June 2014 - July 2016
Cofounder
Modern
2012 - July 2014
Owner
My Favorite Muffin Denver
January 2011 - March 2015
Audit Senior Manager
Deloitte
September 2003 - June 2014
10+ years of hands on experience as Audit Senior Manager at Deloitte, in planning and performing audits and reviews of public companies and private companies with an in-depth knowledge of US GAAP. Developed a proficiency in evaluation of design and operation of internal controls related to Sarbanes-Oxley. Lead teams of 10+ focused on audit quality and efficiency. Experienced in variety of industries: Technology, Manufacturing, Healthcare, Consumer Products, Retail, Banking and Startups.
Education
University of Central Arkansas
BS, Accounting
1998 - 2003