Norman Goldberg
Owner, Norman Goldberg & Associates
Norman Goldberg has nearly 30 years of management experience with a major emphasis on improving productivity and compatible human relations among owners, managers, and employees of well-known corporate entities and family-run businesses. Most recently, he served as advisor to a number of families who were facing daily interpersonal conflicts in trying to maintain and grow a successful business. Mr. Goldberg was chief operating officer of The Wiz, a consumer electronics retail chain owned by Cablevision Systems Corporation. He was also a member of the Cablevision Corporate Management Group. Prior to Cablevision, Mr. Goldberg spent 15 years as chief operating officer of Fortunoff. In this role, he advanced several innovative marketing strategies, including the implementation of the bridal registry. Before joining Fortunoff, Mr. Goldberg was executive vice president for advertising, sales promotion and vendor relations for the French-owned designer house Christian Dior, USA. Previously, he spent 10 years at Bloomingdale’s where he held a variety of management positions, and three years as senior vice president at Diane von Furstenberg Cosmetics where he helped build the national reputation and business of the Tatiana fragrance. Earlier in his career, Mr. Goldberg was invited to join Skill Achievement Inc., a new training consortium made up of The New York Urban League, the Puerto Rican Forum, and Cornell University’s School of Industrial and Labor Relations, where he developed a concept called high intensity training, which was replicated across the country. Additionally, Norman Goldberg was a board member of Cosmetique Inc., the nation’s largest and most successful cosmetic mail order club. He is an active pro bono advisor to the Lustgarten Foundation for pancreatic cancer research. Furthermore, he organized and was the moderator for a seminar at Hofstra University’s Frank G. Zarb School of Business called Family Business Challenges and is a guest lecturer at The Arthur M. Blank Center for Entrepreneurship at Babson College. Email: ngoldbe2@optonline.net Telephone: 516-621-8807 Executives in Residence
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