World's Top 30 Coaching Professionals for 2025

GURU #1

John Mattone

John Mattone is the world’s top executive coach and the founder of four exceptional coaching and leadership development companies, John Mattone Global (JMG), Intelligent Leadership Executive Coaching (ILEC), Intelligent Leadership Online Academy (ILOA), and IL Coaching International (ILCI). The holding company, John Mattone Partners, Inc. (JMP), owns an industry leading 14 registered IP trademarks awarded by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

For the fourth time in the past five years–2019, 2020, 2021, and 2023 the research organization, Globalgurus.org, recently awarded John Mattone with the prestigious world’s #1 coaching authority ranking followed by Tony Robbins at #2. In 2017 and 2018, John was recognized as one of the top three coaching authorities in the world alongside Tony Robbins and Marshall Goldsmith. He was also a finalist for the 2017 Thinkers50 Leadership Award recognizing the world’s top leadership authority and thinker.

John Mattone is the pioneer of Intelligent Leadership (IL), a transformative, results-oriented leadership growth philosophy and process that ignites, cultivates, and polishes an individual’s heart, mind, and soul in support of creating an exceptional leadership and cultural capability in an organization. The IL “Movement” began in 2010. Since then, John Mattone’s IL coaching philosophy, process, and tools have transformed the lives of nearly one million people and impacted the success of thousands of organizations from every corner of the globe-53 countries to date.

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GURU #2

Dr. Peter Chee

Dr. Peter Chee is the CEO of ITD World, a multinational corporation with the mission of transforming leaders to change the world for the better. He specializes in coaching, developing, and transforming, CEOs, CXOs and senior global leaders from world leading organizations including Intel, United Nations, Rolls Royce, Siemens, PepsiCo, Coca-Cola, Micron, First Solar, UOB Bank, LinkedIn, Adobe, Schneider, Mitsubishi, and Western Digital. Peter ranks among the top global coaching gurus with more than 35 years’ experience in developing leaders from over 80 countries. He was awarded the #1 Strategic Innovation Coach by Dr Marshall Goldsmith.

He is the co-author of the #1 International Best Seller 5 Levels of Mastery with the world’s #1 Executive Coach Marshall Goldsmith. He has also co-authored Coaching for Breakthrough Success with Jack Canfield; 12 Disciplines of Leadership Excellence with Brian Tracy; and Becoming an Effective Mentoring Leader and The Leader’s Daily Role in Talent Management with Dr. William J. Rothwell.

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GURU #3

Brenda Bence

Brenda Bence is sought after across six continents as a transformational C-Suite Leadership Coach for dozens of the world’s most recognized multinational companies/organizations. Having led billion-dollar global businesses herself as a Fortune 100 senior executive, Brenda brings to her coaching practice firsthand knowledge of the leadership challenges faced in today’s fast-paced world. She has coached hundreds of leaders from 60 nationalities across 70 different industries and has also served as Coach and Advisor to Board Chairs and CEOs of multiple publicly traded companies on the NYSE, NASDAQ, London Stock Exchange, and the Hong Kong Stock Exchange. Brenda is recognized by Thinkers50 as a World Leader in Coaching and is a member of Marshall Goldsmith’s MG100 Coaches Community.

Brenda has inspired hundreds of thousands of people worldwide through her coaching and speaking engagements and as the author of 11 award-winning books, seven of which have been translated into foreign languages for international markets. Trusted by many of the world’s most recognized companies – 95% of which engage her services repeatedly – Brenda is at the global forefront of international leadership coaching.

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GURU #4

Tony Robbins

Tony Robbins is an entrepreneur, #1 NY Times bestselling author, philanthropist, and the nation’s #1 life & business strategist. He has empowered more than 50 million people from 100 countries around the world through his audio programs, educational videos, and live seminars. For more than four and a half decades, millions of people have enjoyed the warmth, humor, and transformational power of Tony’s business and personal development events.

Mr. Robbins is the author of six international bestsellers, including the 2014 New York Times #1 financial bestseller, MONEY: Master the Game and UNSHAKEABLE: Your Financial Freedom Playbook (2017). His most recent book, LIFE FORCE: How New Breakthroughs in Precision Medicine Can Transform the Quality of Your Life and Those You Love, was released in February 2022.

Mr. Robbins is involved in more than 100 privately held businesses with combined sales exceeding $7 billion a year. He has been honored by Accenture as one of the “Top 50 Business Intellectuals in the World,” by Harvard Business Press as one of the “Top 200 Business Gurus,” and by American Express as one of the “Top Six Business Leaders in the World.” Fortune magazine’s cover article named him the “CEO Whisperer,” and he has been named in the Top 50 of Worth Magazine’s 100 most powerful people in global finance for three consecutive years.

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GURU #5

Dr. Marcia Reynolds

Dr. Marcia Reynolds, Master Certified Coach and president of Covisioning LLC, is passionate about coaching and teaching how to engage in powerful conversations that connect, influence, and activate change. She has provided coaching and training in 47 countries, to thousands coaches and leaders online, is on faculty for coaching schools in the US, Asia, and Eastern Europe.

From government agencies and large multi-national companies, she’s been hired by organizations around the globe to teach leaders to create coaching experiences, not just because of her highly engaging presentations but because of her ability to inspire people to change minds and behavior. Her foundational and mastery Breakthrough Coaching programs on the Coaching.com platform provide advanced skills and community for coaches around the world. She was recently awarded the Coaching Impact Award for Emerging Organizations for working with her client AEON Vietnam to transform their culture and accelerate their success with coaching even through the pandemic, an amazing feat for a retail corporation!

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GURU #6

Will Linssen

Will Linssen, MBA, MSc

“Making Change Happen for a Triple Win” is the foundation based on which Will provides top executives with effective business solutions and practical leadership applications that deliver measurable results for their specific organizational challenges, resulting in a triple win for leaders, their teams and their business. Will has more than 30 years of in-depth experience in executive positions and managing businesses in Europe, North America, and Asia. After his executive leadership career, Will built the world’s #1 international coaching network which evolved into the Global Coach Group (GCG) where he is currently the CEO (globalcoachgroup.com). 

Will Linssen was a co-recipient of the award for #1 Coach Trainer by Thinkers50 (UK) and #1 Global Leadership Coach by Global Gurus (USA). Furthermore, Will Linssen has co-authored the Global Coaching Group methodology. For over two decades he has been working with executive teams to measurably improve their leadership and organizational effectiveness. He has held several positions in general management and business management at multinational companies in Europe, North America, and Asia and he has served at the board of several multinationals in Asia. Will travels the globe training executive coaches and coaching business leaders in using GCG’s highly effective 360Feedforward Coaching methodology (globalcoachgroup.com/certification-program).

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GURU #7

Nankhonde Kasonde

Nankhonde Kasonde-van den Broek is a Professional Certified Coach (PCC/ICF), development activist and entrepreneur.

She is the Founder and Lead Consultant at Nankhonde Kasonde Consultancy, Founder and Creative Director at KHONDE (www.khondezambia.com), Founder and CEO at ZANGA African Metrics (www.zangametrics.com).

Following a decade working in international development and international finance globally with the United Nations and the Global Fund to fight AIDS, TB & Malaria, she returned to Zambia to pursue her purpose and desire to contribute to her country’s economy and the wider African development agenda.

Nankhonde is an internationally certified Executive Coach & Organizational change architect. She has over 20 years of experience supporting multinationals, international organizations and Governments. She is an accomplished professional with a wealth of African, international and multicultural experience in designing and leading large-scale change across multiple sectors. She has lived and worked in New York, Geneva, Dakar and Lilongwe. She has travelled extensively and supported programmes across Africa and South East Asia.

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GURU #8

Connie Dieken

for more than 20 years, Connie Dieken dedicated herself to journalism as a television news anchorwoman, reporter, broadcast personality, and talk show host, including co-hosting The Morning Exchange, America’s longest running television talk show. She is a multiple Emmy award-winning and Telly award-winning journalist and her excellence has led to her induction to the Radio/Television Broadcasters Hall of Fame. Connie has represented more than 50 companies as their spokesperson, including Intel, Sealy, GE, American Greetings, Ernst and Young and Goodyear. Connie spent her career with the most successful and influential people in business and entertainment and recognized a pattern to their success. After years of research, she learned the common traits each of these people shared, and discovered people could learn how to be influential with the right training. 

Armed with unique insight into the power that influence has over each of us, she developed a proven methodology to transform any leader or executive into an influencer. In 2000, she founded onPoint Communication to train leaders and emerging leaders in critical influential leadership, communication, media and presentation skills. For nearly 12 years, Connie has been the trusted executive coach and advisor to many leaders who run the world’s most recognizable brands. She has become the most respected and in-demand executive coach, keynote speaker, author and authority on learning the skills needed to become an influential personality in all forms of leadership and communication. 

Connie is the author and co-author of five books, dedicated to teaching individuals influential leadership, communication and presentation techniques. Her most recent bestselling book, Talk Less, Say More: 3 Habits to Influence Others and Make Things Happen, takes Connie’s knowledge, research and experience coaching high-powered leaders and condenses it into a fast-paced, no-nonsense guide to teach anyone to be an influential communicator with anyone, anywhere.

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GURU #9

Peter Bregman

Recognized as the #1 executive coach in the world by Leading Global Coaches, Peter Bregman coaches CEOs and senior leaders in many of the world’s premier organizations. Having started his career teaching leadership on wilderness and mountaineering expeditions, Peter is CEO of Bregman Partners, an executive coaching company that helps successful people become exceptional leaders and stellar human beings.

Peter is ranked as a Top 30 thought leader by Thinkers 50 Radar and selected as one of the Top 8 thought leaders in leadership. He is ranked by Global Guru’s as one of the top 30 best Coaches in the world and one of the top 30 best leadership speakers/trainers in the world.  He is the award-winning, best selling author and contributor of 18 books, including most recently, Leading with Emotional Courage: How to Have Hard Conversations, Create Accountability, and Inspire Action on Your Most Important Work. His book, 18 Minutes: Find Your Focus, Master Distraction, and Get the Right Things Done, was a Wall Street Journal bestseller, winner of the Gold medal from the Axiom Business Book awards, named the best business book of the year by NPR, and selected by Publishers Weekly and the New York Post as a top ten business book. He is also the author of Four Seconds: All the Time You Need to Replace Counter-Productive Habits with Ones That Really Work, a New York Post “Top Pick for Your Career” in 2015, and Point B: A Short Guide to Leading a Big Change.

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GURU #10

Paul Martinelli

PAUL MARTINELLI travels the globe spreading the word about unleashing one’s true potential and the power of what the mind can truly accomplish. His plain-spoken wisdom immediately connects with individuals and groups from all backgrounds. From humble and difficult beginnings, Paul learned to tap into his own true potential and became a multimillionaire. Now he shares his life changing message through workshops, retreats, seminars, webinars, coaching services, and keynote speeches. Paul is also a master at training others how to become skilled personal development coaches and platform speakers.

 He founded The John Maxwell Team in 2011, and serves as president with over 20,000 members in more than 150 countries. These certified coaches, teachers and trainers are bringing transformation and starting a leadership movement within their own communities all over the world. Through his own journey of becoming a renowned coach and speaker, Paul has shared the stage with personal development masters such as John Maxwell, Seth Godin, Les Brown, Jack Canfield, Wayne Dyer, Brian Tracey, Mark Victor Hansen, Denis Waitley, Nick Vujicic, and Zig Ziglar.

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GURU #11

Mark Nation

Mark Nation is a globally recognized management expert, bestselling author, keynote speaker, executive coach, and leadership consultant. He is personally driven to discover what makes individuals, teams, and organizations amazing—those elements that power the heart and soul of individuals and businesses worldwide. His bestselling book, Made for Amazing: An Instrumental Journey of Authentic Leadership Transformation, helps people to identify and sharpen their unique talents in the workplace and beyond. Made for Amazing received a Gold Medal in the 2018 Gold Ink Awards. Global Gurus rated Mark one of the world’s Top 30 Leadership Coaches in 2018 and 2019.

Mark has built and managed companies across five industries, developing people, products, and partnerships on six continents. He has worked with a wide range of clients, from top executives, corporate managers and young leaders, to Fortune 500 organizations, start-ups, schools, churches, and non-profits. He is an active member of Forbes Coaches Council and a Fellow with The Institute of Coaching at McLean Hospital, Harvard Medical School Affiliate. Mark has appeared in Forbes, Entrepreneur, Business Insider, Fox, NBC, ABC, Christian Post, SmartBrief, Leadership Freak, Boston Business Journal, Faith Radio, Channelnomics, MarketWatch, Atlanta Business Chronicle, Chicago Daily Herald, and Silicon Valley Business Journal.

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GURU #12

Jane Hyun

Jane Hyun is the leading authority in leveraging culture and diversity to drive business outcomes. She has worked with thousands of leaders across 4 continents to increase their agility in an increasingly complex, evolving, and connected workplace. She is an internationally renowned executive coach and leadership strategist to Fortune 500 companies, MBA programs, and non-profits. She has authored two books: Flex/the New Playbook for Managing Across Differences and Breaking the Bamboo Ceiling, a groundbreaking bestseller. In addition to coaching professionals to maximize their potential and advance their careers, she advises senior management on building effective multicultural teams and the critical role of the global talent pipeline. 

She has spoken to hundreds of organization, and has effectively closed the culture gap for organizations on 4 continent. The firm’s Cultural Fluency Roundtables and Bamboo Ceiling® Series (leadership coaching program for Asians) have garnered praise from global Fortune 100 companies in the U.S. and in key global markets. Her speaking style is known for creating “unexpected lightbulb moments” that “immediately engages the audience and provides keen insights in an approachable way.”

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GURU #13

Michael Bungay Stanier

Michael Bungay Stanier is the author of five books, including *The Coaching Habit*, the best-selling coaching book of the last two years with half a million copies sold and 1,000+ 5-star reviews on Amazon. Other books include *Do More Great Work* (100,000 copies sold), and *End Malaria*, a collection of articles about Great Work from thought leaders that’s raised about $400,000 for Malaria No More and reached #2 on Amazon.com. Michael is the founder of Box of Crayons, a company that is the best-known champion for coaching as a force for leadership development and culture change. 

More than 80,000 managers have taken their programs, and their clients include Microsoft, TD Bank, Salesforce and USA. Michael was a Rhodes Scholar, one of the first nominees in the Marshall Goldsmith 100, and the first Canadian Coach of the Year.

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GURU #14

Alisa Cohn

Alisa Cohn is an Executive Coach who has worked with C-suite executives at prominent startups (such as Venmo, Etsy, Draft Kings, The Wirecutter, Mack Weldon, and Tory Burch) and Fortune 500 companies (including Dell, IBM, Microsoft, Google, Pfizer, Calvin Klein and Hitachi.) She is the author of the 2022 Independent Press Award-winning book From Start-up to Grown-up and podcast host of the same name, which provides insights and tools for the journey founders (and all leaders) must go through as they scale their leadership.

She was named the Top Startup Coach in the World at the Thinkers50/Marshall Goldsmith Global Coaches Awards and the #1 Global Guru for Startups in 2021 and 2022, A sought-after speaker, Inc. named Alisa one of the top 100 leadership speakers, and she has keynoted events for IBM, PwC, Dell, and Citi. She is the executive coach for Runway, the incubator at Cornell’s New York City campus. She is a regular contributor to the Harvard Business Review, Forbes, and Inc, and she’s been featured as an expert on BBC World News and in the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal. She is an angel investor and a Broadway investor.

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GURU #15

Myke Celis

Myke Celis is a multi-awarded Global Master Coach and the international best-selling author of the #bestmeever series, with 6 inspirational titles under his name. A Professional Certified Coach of the International Coach Federation, he specializes in self-empowerment, holistic wellness and well-being.

Myke empowers people through strategic coaching to become the person they’re meant to be: their own #bestmeever — their authentic, unapologetic, grandest version of themselves.

This has been his career since leaving his post as an advertising & marketing executive after 15 years.

Myke’s clientele base includes celebrities, top executives and highly successful people from all over the world under his signature #bestmeever program. He also teaches and trains aspiring/professional coaches globally on how to build their own highly profitable coaching practice under his mentorship program.

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GURU #16

Bill Walsh

AMERICA’S SMALL BUSINESS EXPERT®

Bill Walsh a venture capitalist and is the CEO/Founder of the Success Education/Business Coaching firm Powerteam International. Bill hosts and speaks at events all over the world! His passion is to empower entrepreneurs and business owners to create massive success. He is the best selling author of the book “The Obvious”, is an amazing speaker, radio personality and movie celebrity. He has a very successful background in finance and marketing. He has spent over two decades working with start-ups to major global brands to help them increase sales, productivity and overall success. He is an innovator with a remarkable ability to determine and build success plans to help business owners seize immediate market opportunities.

For everyone that owns a business or would like to capitalize their entrepreneurial dream, his message will enlighten them with knowledge and action principles to turn that passion into success! Bill has an extensive background in foreign currency trading, real estate development and building businesses in more than 30 countries. Over the past two decades, his firm has specialized in helping companies launch, grow and create exponential valuation in the market.

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GURU #17

Shweta Jhajharia

Shweta Jhajharia is one of the leading authorities on Business Value Building and the creator of the unique 6M Model. Shweta is widely respected as an impactful, intelligent and results orientated professional who helps business leaders unleash their potential to reach meaningful, higher objectives. This realisation of potential and maximisation of performance helps business leaders to significantly increase profitability and long-term value in their businesses while at the same time becoming better leaders and human beings.

Shweta has been widely recognised by external bodies and industry panels as the top business coach in the UK through more than 75 awards including Outstanding Businesswoman of the Year, Top 20 Global Trainers and Influencers (IFLD), Global Best Client Results, Hall of Fame Coach, two International Stevie Awards, Top 30 GlobalGurus in the world since 2017, Enterprise Coach of the Year, Millionaire Coach Award, APCTC Judges Award in Recognition of Coaching Services.

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GURU #18

Lance Secretan

Dr. Lance Secretan is the world’s top authority on inspirational leadership, a trailblazing teacher, advisor and expert on corporate culture, whose bestselling books, inspirational talks, and life-changing retreats have touched the hearts and minds of hundreds of thousands of people worldwide. He is the author of 21 books about leadership, inspiration, corporate culture and entrepreneurship as well as an award-winning memoir, A Love Story. His latest book is The Bellwether Effect. Lance is a riveting speaker and is acknowledged globally as one of our most insightful and original leadership teachers. He is the former CEO of a Fortune 100 company, university professor, award-winning columnist, poet, author and outdoor athlete. He coaches and advises leaders globally (he is ranked among both The Top 30 Most Influential Executive Coaches and The Top 30 Most Influential Leadership Experts globally), and guides leadership teams who wish to transform their culture into the most inspirational in their industries.

Individuals, entire organizations, cities and states have experienced remarkable transformations through his unique mentoring, coaching, wisdom and approach. He has helped 6 companies to be named to Fortune’s Best Companies to Work for in America list, and 8 others are also his clients, and 30 Secretan Center clients are on Fortune’s Most Admired Companies list. Speakers in America ranks him among the Top Five Leadership speakers and his firm, The Secretan Center, Inc., is ranked #1 in the world as an international Leadership Consulting firm by Leadership Excellence.

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GURU #19

Dr Mongezi C Makhalima

Dr. Mongezi C Makhalima – Accredited Master Coach (ABCCCP)
Mongezi is an organisation development specialist, organisational learning expert & Accredited Master coach with 20 years experience in corporates and NGO’s across the continent including Zambia, Nigeria, Kenya & Mozambique. He is the founder of the Pretoria Centre for Work-Based learning, a professional development outfit that g,

Coaching & Coaching Psychology, Organisation Development, Local Government and Entrepreneurship . He is also chairman of the The Entrepreneurship Academy of South Africa,The South African National youth orchestra Foundation and The Africa Board for
Coaching, Consulting & Coaching Psychology (ABCCCP)
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GURU #20

Scott Eblin

As a leadership expert, global speaker, best-selling author, and executive coach, Scott Eblin works with managers and executives who want to lead and live at their best in a constantly changing world. He does this by confronting head-on the reality of today’s 24/7 environment and helping leaders create repeatable actions that lead to positive outcomes. He advocates simple, practical and immediately applicable steps that help leaders consistently be at their best – not just in their professional lives, but also at home and in their communities.

Scott’s own journey informs his work with leaders in some of the world’s best known companies and organizations. A former Fortune 500 executive, Scott co-founded The Eblin Group in 2000. The methodologies used in Scott’s coaching as well as the content of his keynotes and workshops are influenced by his professional experience and by his own quest to redefine his “best” after a diagnosis of multiple sclerosis in 2009. Faced with this new reality, he redrew the routines in his life to show up at his best both professionally and personally. His life experience along with the difference he’s made for thousands of leaders in well over 100 companies makes Scott uniquely qualified to help his clients lead at their best and live at their best.

Scott is an honors graduate of Davidson College and holds a master’s degree in public administration from Harvard University. He has a certificate in leadership coaching from Georgetown University and was a 10 year faculty member of that program. He holds the designations of Professional Certified Coach from the International Coach Federation and Registered Yoga Teacher from the Yoga Alliance.

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GURU #21

Terri Levine

Terri Levine (SAY Luh-VEEN) is the founder of Heart-repreneur® and is a business and executive coaching expert. She assists businesses worldwide with business growth, sales, and marketing. She has more than 40 years of business experience, encompassing work with more than 5,000 business owners and entrepreneurs in a variety of industries. She is also a best-selling author of dozens of books, has her own radio and TV show and is also a keynote speaker.

Terri has a passion for helping businesses to grow with her own personal experience gained while building multiple successful businesses from the ground up. Terri has created the Heart-repreneur® cause teaching business owners to do business heart-to-heart.

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GURU #22

Jonathan Low

Jonathan Low Global Speaking Fellow, CSP ICF MCC, centers his conference speaking and executive coaching work with organisations and senior executives to measurably improve their leadership effectiveness and business performance especially in the areas of Service Quality, Sales Performance, Leadership Communication and Team Development. He believes that “Increased self-awareness accelerates professional relations and business success”.

Author of the book “Winning Clients’ Loyalty – 7 Proven Practices to Convert Clients into Amazing Fans”, Jonathan brings with him 30 years of professional and global hospitality experiences, having travelled extensively to more than 50 countries and 185 cities in Europe, United States, Asia Pacific and the Middle East. He has held several positions in key leadership and executive roles with various global five star hospitality groups. He was formerly the Area Director of Sales, Parkroyal Hotels & Resorts, Area Director of Rev Mgmt with Renaissance & Marriott AP, which includes the Ritz Carlton brands and was also with Hilton Hotels & Resorts.

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GURU #23

Brandon Mergard

Brandon has worked alongside Marshall Goldsmith for over a decade. As CEO and the driving force behind the highly impactful Stakeholder Centered Coaching®, he is deeply passionate about helping leaders achieve and sustain outstanding leadership results.

Recognized as one of the Top 200 Biggest Voices in Leadership by LeadersHum in 2022, Brandon is also a published author in Worldwide Coaching Magazine. Known for his energy, focus, and creativity, he has played a key role in developing the Stakeholder Centered Coaching® certification program, making it both professional and highly engaging. His exceptional communication skills and ability to lead with clarity and conviction make his mentoring sessions both enjoyable and deeply impactful. His empathetic and inclusive approach ensures participants feel connected and fully engaged in the learning process.

Brandon holds an MBA summa cum laude from Aston University and a Doctorate in Business Administration, specializing in leadership within startups and small enterprises. His expertise spans from coaching senior leaders in Fortune 500 companies to providing strategic consulting for small and mid-sized businesses.

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GURU #24

Philippe Rosinski

Philippe’s integrated approach for leadership development and coaching leverages multiple perspectives, enabling greater creativity, impact, fulfilment and meaning.

The Harvard Business School chose his groundbreaking book Coaching Across Cultures as its featured book recommendation in the category of business leadership. His innovative approach of bringing the crucial intercultural dimension into the practice of coaching has won him worldwide acclaim. His book Global Coaching has been described as “having moved the art and science of coaching to a new level”.

Philippe has also developed an integrative coaching supervision approach, which he practices on a one-to-one basis and with groups.

Since 1999, he is the principal of Rosinski & Company, a consultancy based in Belgium with partners across the globe, which helps leaders, teams and organizations unleash their human potential to achieve sustainable high performance.

Since 2008, Philippe is a professor in the MBA program for global managers at the Kenichi Ohmae Graduate School of Business in Tokyo, Japan. He intervenes in other academic institutions including HEC Paris, the University of Cambridge, and Harvard University.

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GURU #25

Carol kaufman

Carol is known globally as one of the top leaders in the field of coaching. She has been named the #1 Leadership coach in the world by the Marshall Goldsmith group. Thinkers 50 shortlisted her as one of the top 8 coaches for her contribution as a thought leader and coach.

She is on the faculty at Harvard where she is the Founder of the Institute of Coaching. In addition, she supervises an international fleet of leadership coaches and has created a Coach Approach training program with a global footprint.

Leadership coaching: As a very active practicing coach, her mission is to help leaders raise the bar on themselves, their teams and organizations to maintain peak performance and optimal life satisfaction. She has over 40,000 hours of client contact. Her work focuses primarily on CEO’s and their teams. In order to launch the next generation of leaders, she is now working with millennials, high potentials and some unicorns.

A sampling of clients where she has worked with top leaders, often with their executive committees includes: Ahold, Astra Zeneca, Cisco, ConsenSys (Etherium), Dashlane, Deutche Bank, Egon Zehnder, Genentech, Harvard, Indeed, Informatica, Knowls, Lloyds, Lyft, Mastercard, Oliver Wyman, Owens-Illionis, Rifinitiv, Sonos, Takeda, Telefonica TriNet, Unilever, Vanderbilt and Value Retail and Vertex.

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GURU #26

Jack Canfield

A coaching guru known as Americas #1 Success Coach, Jack Canfield has been coaching entrepreneurs educators corporate leaders and people from all walks of life and of all ages cultures and backgrounds. A Harvard graduate with a Masters Degree in psychological education, Jack is a one of the earliest champions of peak performance who developed some specific methodologies. He has developed millions of people with his unique and modernized formulas for success and personal fulfillment and is a widely recognized leader in performance improvement strategies. Over the last 30 years, his compelling message empowering energy and personable coaching style has helped remarkably large number of individuals achieve their dreams. His bestselling book The Success Principles How to Get From Where You Are to Where You Want to Be has been hailed as the new self-improvement guide containing 64 of the most powerful principles of success. He is an insightful speaker with wit and experiences that enriched his delivery.

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GURU #27

David Clutterbuck

David Clutterbuck is one of the last surviving active pioneers of coaching and mentoring. Visiting professor at four universities, he is the most prolific author in the field. His 75th book, to be published in late 2022, puts into context how coaching has developed over the 45 years of his practice.

David was co-founder of the earliest professional body in coaching and mentoring, now the EMCC, for which he is a lifetime ambassador, tasked with bringing good coaching practice to coaches everywhere. He is a Distinguished Research Fellow of The Conference Board, and a Chartered Companion of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development. He is Co-Dean of the Global Team Coaching Institute.

 In recent years, David’s research has focused especially on high performing teams and team coaching. His model of teams as complex, adaptive systems nested within other complex, adaptive systems — based on access to the most value-creating teams in multinational corporations — gives coaches working with teams the ability to manage the complexity for better decision-making and continuous learning.

David leads a global network of coaching trainers and consultants, Coaching and Mentoring International. Now in his mid—70s, his own coaching work focuses on team coaching and on supporting CEOs in becoming the champion for coaching cultures.

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Jonathan Passmore

Jonathan Passmore is a thought leader on coaching, through his research and practice in coaching, which includes his integrated coaching framework, the Henley8 reflective model, the LEAD organizational culture, groundbreaking work on Equality, Diversity and Belonging in coaching and most recently work on digital and AI technologies. He holds two professorships, one at the University of Evora, Portugal and a second at Henley Business School, where he created the Global Coaching Archive and quadrupled coaching student numbers. He holds five degrees and two professional coaching accreditations, from the EMCC and ICF.

Jonathan is a regular commentator in the media. He has written and edited 40 books, and over 250 scientific papers and book chapters. What’s distinctive about Jonathan’s contribution is his ability to cross the divide between practice and academia, influencing both theory and practice. His book titles range from popular books aimed at leaders and manager such as: ‘Appreciative Inquiry for Change Management’, ‘Coach Me: My Personal Board of Directors !’ and ‘Mindfulness at Work’, to coach practitioners texts used by coach trainers across the world such as ‘Excellence in Coaching’, ‘Becoming a Coach: The Essential ICF guide’ and ‘The Coaches Handbook‘, to serious scientific textbooks, such as the 500,000 word ‘International Handbook of Evidenced based coaching’ and the Wiley Blackwell series of seven organisational handbooks, totally 2 million words aimed at scholars. His new titles in 2024 include: ‘Coaching Tools Volume 3’ (Libri Publishing), ‘The Digital & AI Coaches Handbook’ (Routledge), ‘The Health & Wellbeing Coaches Handbook’ (Routledge), ‘Becoming a Team Coach: The Essential ICF Guide‘ (Springer) and a new edition of ‘Becoming a Coach: The Essential ICF Guide’, which has become the go-to text for new coaches seeking ICF accreditation, having been translated into a dozen languages across the world. Given this body of work, its not surprising Jonathan is one of the most cited coaching thinkers in the world, an unusual position for someone who also actively practices coaching as a master coach, as well as holding a senior leadership position in a global coaching business.

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Marion Franklin

As a Master Certified Coach (MCC), Marion Franklin is sought after for her Laser-Focused approach and direct communication. Her work includes developing and teaching her unique program, Laser-Focused Coaching emphasizing masterful coaching skills. She recently published a second book: What Would a Wise Person Do? helping coaches understand human behaviors, facilitates ongoing “Coach with Confidence” mentor groups, and provides group mentoring and supervision.

To date, everyone Marion has taught and mentored for Associate Certified Coach (ACC), Professional Certified Coach (PCC), or Master Certified Coach (MCC) has passed (using the principles from her Laser-Focused Coaching book). She has been interviewed on TV for her coaching expertise, coached executives at various corporations, presented at numerous coaching conferences and events, and has been cited in The Journal News and The Wall Street Journal.

Marion holds master’s degrees in business and education. Prior to coaching, she co-founded a healthcare publishing company and taught high school business education. Aside from coach training and mentoring, she finds it critical to maintain individual coaching clients. Through them she is richly rewarded as they move toward and achieve their sustainable visions. In her spare time, Marion takes drawing classes, attends lectures, and plays bridge. She resides in Purchase, New York.

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Christy Whitman

Christy Whitman is the messenger of Light for The Council, spiritual mentors here to spread the message of Quantum Energy Mastery. Christy & The Council teach classes, and meditations and provides private sessions to help clients feel more aligned with their Divine Design of well-being, abundance, success, and loving and supportive relationships.

For over 25 years Christy Whitman has worked with energy and Light to shift every aspect of her life.  Hear the hilarious and inspiring stories of her manifestation journey. Christy Whitman is a multiple New York Times bestselling author, Master Certified Law of Attraction Coach, and Creator and Founder of The Quantum Success Coaching Academy where she continues to train and certify Law of Attraction Coaches. Christy is also a messenger for The Council of Light. “You are infinitely loved.” You can find out more about Christy at www.christywhitman.com

Christy is a regular guest on top podcasts such as Entrepreneur On Fire, Aww Shift, Your Superpowered Mind among many others. Christy has appeared on the news, The Today Show, The Morning Show, Ted X, and The Hallmark Channel, and her work has been featured in the media in various publications. She’s been featured in Goalcast, Purist Magazine, People Magazine, Seventeen, Woman’s Day, Hollywood Life, and Teen Vogue, to name a few.

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