Global Gurus

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.

Since 2017, John Mattone has personally coached and mentored over 450 global executive coaches and 45 of the world’s top CEO’s and government leaders. John Mattone is the former executive coach to the late Steve Jobs and the former legendary CEO of PepsiCo, Roger Enrico.

John is the author of ten books, including five best-sellers: Talent Leadership (2012), Intelligent Leadership (2013), Cultural Transformations (2016), The Intelligent Leader (2019), and The Executive Coach’s Handbook (2022).

John has a Bachelor of Science in Management & Organizational Behavior as well as a Master of Science and Ph.D. in Industrial/Organizational Psychology. He serves on the Dean’s Advisory Board (College of Sciences) at the University of Central Florida (UCF) and is a Distinguished Senior Fellow at the Hult International School of Business.

In 2017, John created an annual scholarship, the John Mattone Endowed Graduate Scholarship Fund for Executive Coaching and Leadership at the University of Central Florida (UCF).

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.

Peter holds a doctoral degree from the University of South Australia, and an MSc. in Training and HRM from the University of Leicester, UK. He is the developer of the Certified Chief Master Coach (CCMC) program, and the Certified Coaching and Mentoring Professional (CCMP) program. Both are accredited and recognized by the ICF (International Coach Federation). He has made profound contributions to the field of coaching by creating the Coaching Mastery Model (CMM), Coaching for Breakthrough Success (CBS) Metta Model, The Coaching Principles (TCP), Situational Coaching Model (SCM), Achievers Coaching Techniques (ACT), and the Let’s Coach mobile app. All these have contributed to the advancement of new knowledge in the coaching industry.

In his pursuit of excellence, Dr. Chee believes in learning from the best to be the best. He is fortunate to have been coached and mentored and being given the opportunity to personally learn from many of the world’s leading gurus and best-selling authors such as Marshall Goldsmith, John C. Maxwell, Kenneth Blanchard, Thomas G. Crane, Tom Peters, Tony Buzan, Robert Tucker, Anthony Robbins, William J. Rothwell, Brian Tracy, and Jack Canfield.

He was the president of ARTDO International, a non-profit professional umbrella body that brings together renowned national HRD bodies, governments, and multinational companies active in HRD work globally.  He received the ARTDO Internal Management and HRD Excellence Award (individual category) from the President of ARTDO International and President of Australian Institute of Training and Development.

Dr. Chee is a Baden Powell Fellow of the World Scout Foundation, an honor bestowed by the king of Sweden.  He passionately volunteers to coach leaders with his signature Sunrise Eureka Beach Coaching (SEBC) every week. Global leaders from USA, Mexico, Africa, Europe, Asia, and Australia have benefited from SEBC. Under the ITD Love the World initiative, Peter drives the 100 million leaders mandate to provide fully sponsored coaching programs in every country for a better world.

For greater insights from Dr Peter Chee, please visit: https://itdworld.com/drpeterchee/index.php

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.

Mr. Robbins is a leader called upon by leaders. He has worked with four U.S. presidents, top entertainers – from Aerosmith to Green Day, Usher and Pitbull, and athletes and sports teams including tennis great Serena Williams, UFC champion Conor McGregor and the NBA’s Golden State Warriors. Business leaders and financial moguls from Salesforce.com founder Marc Benioff to Ray Dalio of Bridgewater Associates have tapped him for personal coaching.

Mr. Robbins is a leading philanthropist. Through his 1 Billion Meals Challenge in partnership with Feeding America, Mr. Robbins has provided over 850 million meals in the last 7 years and he is ahead of schedule to provide 1 billion meals by 2025. Through the Tony Robbins Foundation, he has also awarded over 2,000 grants and other resources to health and human services organizations, implemented a life-changing curriculum in 1,700+ correctional facilities and gathered thousands of young leaders from around the world with its youth programs.

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.

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).

As part of GCG’s vision to ‘Lead for Good’ Will has been committed to support coaches and leaders in their professional development and has provided the GCG Authentic Leadership Model program for free to all coaches and leaders around the world (globalcoachgroup.com/alm/). Thousands of coaches and leaders have used this in their coaching and leadership development practice to support leaders and their teams to Lead for Good.

Clients consistently commend his results-driven personality combined with his confident, energetic, and relatable style. A good listener and problem solver with in-depth business knowledge and cross-cultural understanding, he has been recognized for his creative and analytical skills, and most of his executive clients hold international positions in a wide range of industries at Fortune 500 Cos across USA, LATAM, Europe, Asia, and Australia a.o. AON, Allianz, BAT, Bayer, Coca Cola, GSK, ING, Kimberly Clark, LG, LinkedIn, McDonalds, Novartis, Pepsi, Philips, Philip Morris, Sanofi, Saudi Telcom, Standard Chartered Bank, Syngenta, SC Johnson and Uber.

Will has written various leadership books, most notably:

• Global Leadership Assessment (GLA 360) – Leader Guide
• Global Leadership Coaching – Leader Guide
• Global Team Coaching Guide

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.

Dr. Marcia Reynolds, Master Certified Coach helps coaches and leaders make every conversation a difference-making experience. She has provided coaching and training in 41 countries, to hundreds of thousands coaches and leaders online, is the training director for the Healthcare Coaching Institute in the US and is on faculty for coaching schools in China, Russia, and The Philippines.

Marcia was the 5^th global president of the International Coach Federation and recently inducted into ICF’s Circle of Distinction for her contributions to the global coaching community. She is considered one of the world’s leading Coach’s Coach.

Her doctorate is in Organizational Psychology and she has two master’s degrees in Communications and Adult Learning. She continues her research so her teaching and writing is constantly updated, relevant, and offers fresh ideas and practices.

In addition to teaching and consulting, Marcia coaches executives globally. Before launching her own business, her greatest success came from designing the leadership and employee development program for a global semiconductor company facing bankruptcy. Within three years, the company turned around and became the #1 revenue producing IPO in 1993. Many leaders seek to work with Marcia for both her experience as well her coaching credentials.

Excerpts from Marcia’s books Outsmart Your Brain; The Discomfort Zone; and Wander Woman have appeared in business and psychological publications world-wide.

Her latest bestseller, Coach the Person, Not the Problem: A Guide to Using Reflective Inquiry, was released June, 2020 to rave reviews and became an international #1 bestseller in Business and Coaching books.

Marcia is passionate about how coaching contributes to making the world a better place for all. Read more at https://www.Covisioning.com

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.

Inducted into the Professional Speaker Hall of Fame in 2023, Brenda is also one of only a handful of professional speakers worldwide who have earned the coveted Global Certified Speaking Professional title from the Global Speakers Federation. Brenda brings to her audiences engaging, real-life leadership stories and a down-to-earth, pragmatic approach to inspire long-lasting behavioral change – all delivered with a good dose of humor.

Brenda holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and has offices in both Asia and the U.S. She has been featured in several hundred media outlets and publications across the world such as Fortune, Financial Times, Entrepreneur, Inc., Wall Street’s Smart Money, and NBC.

In 2024, Brenda will release her next book to help leaders achieve success, despite high-stakes long-haul travel, to conquer jet lag and unlock sustained leadership excellence while traveling around the globe.  The book is based on Brenda’s own experiences as a 3+ million-mile business traveler, working across six continents while running her own business for the past 20 years.

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.

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.”

Prior to her leadership coaching role, Jane successfully led Operations and HR as VP of Human Resources/Talent Development at JP Morgan, and was Director of Recruiting at Deloitte. A graduate of Cornell University with a degree in Economics and International Studies, she is active with the President’s Council of Cornell Women.  Her insights on leadership, culture, and career development have appeared on CNN and CNBC, Harvard Business Review, Wall Street Journal, Fortune, Forbes, Leader to Leader Journal, and Fast Company. She has been an advisor to the American Heart Association Diversity Council and the Center for Talent Innovation. Most recently, she led a research working group for the Conference Board’s Cultural Fluency in Asia. Jane is  a Marshall Goldsmith Leading Global Coach, and  enjoys helping individuals flourish in their workplaces and in their communities.

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.

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.

Bill has been recognized for the past 6 years as one of the top 30 business coaches in the world by Guru Magazine. He was a featured expert in the New Movie “Beyond the Secret – The Awakening”. In the area of Social Impact Bill has been on multiple charity boards including the advisory board for the Safe Haven Foundation in Chicago, Il.

In 2006, he formed his own company, Powerteam International to spread his message to a wider audience. Powerteam International provides Success Education programs around the world. The programs are designed for individuals, companies, and organizations that are interested in creating even more success. Bill is committed to raising the awareness of entrepreneurs, business owners and organizations all over the world.

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.

He has written several articles, including Coaching from Multiple Perspectives (2007), Leading for Joy (1998) and Constructive Politics (1998), which already showed how alternative and multiple perspectives can enrich traditional coaching and leadership development for maximum impact. His interests cover various disciplines: his Unfolding the Remarkable Orthopedic Surgeon (2015) has been co-written with a leading orthopedic surgeon. His article Diversity and Inclusion 3.0 (2022) offers an innovative approach to get more from DEI programs.

He has also contributed to several books:  Evidence Based Coaching Handbook (2006), Excellence in Coaching (2006), Best Practice in Performance Coaching (2007), The Routledge Companion to International Business Coaching (2008), The Coaching Relationship (2010), The Psychology of Coaching and Mentoring (2013), 52 Activities for Successful International Relocation (2015), Positive Psychology in Coaching (2015), Leading School Improvement (2016), Mastering Executive Coaching (2019) and L’art et la pratique du coaching professionnel (2019), Succeeding as a Coach (2021), Positive Psychology Coaching in the Workplace (2021), La Revanche du Cerveau Droit (2022), Coach Me! Your Personal Board of Directors: Leadership Advice from the World’s Greatest Coaches (2022), and The Ethical Coaches’ Handbook (2023).

Prior to his career of over 30 years in coaching and leadership development, he spent six years in the engineering field as a software engineer in the Silicon Valley, California, and as a project manager in Brussels.

He received an Electrical and Mechanical Engineering degree from the Ecole Polytechnique in Brussels. He holds a Master of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University and the Executive Master in Management degree from the Solvay Brussels School of Economics and Management. He is also certified to use a variety of psychometric instruments and is the author of the Cultural Orientations Framework (COF) assessment – https://www.cofassessment.com. He has received numerous awards including the Thinkers50 Marshall Goldsmith Leading Global Coaches Award (2019) and the ICF Circle of Distinction (2022).

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 Publisher’s 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.

Peter is the host of the Bregman Leadership Podcast, with over 1.5M downloads, which offers insightful conversations with industry thought leaders on how to become more powerful, courageous leaders. He is also a regular contributor to the Harvard Business Review, and his articles and commentary appear frequently in Bloomberg BusinessWeek, Fast Company, Psychology Today, Forbes, The Financial Times, PBS, ABC, CNN, NPR, and FOX Business News.

Peter created and leads the Bregman Leadership Intensive, ranked by Global Gurus as the #1 Leadership Development Program in the world, a four-day program that transforms the way people lead by increasing their confidence in themselves, their ability to connect with others, their commitment to what’s most important, and their emotional courage.

Peter designed the Bregman Partners proven, proprietary Big Arrow process to align people to work together to accomplish an organization’s most important work, leveraging the Big Arrow Measurement tool to quantify the leadership and organizational gaps that block successful execution.

Peter has implemented his proprietary solutions with CEOs and senior leaders in many of the world’s premier organizations, including Allianz, Brunswick Group, Twilio, Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, Pearson, Citi, FEI, Clear Channel, and many others.

Peter earned his B.A. from Princeton University and his M.B.A. from Columbia University. He can be reached at pbregman@bregmanpartners.com.

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.

Dr. Secretan is the recipient of many other awards, including the International Caring Award, whose previous winners include, Pope Francis, the Dalai Lama, President Jimmy Carter and Dr. Desmond Tutu. He is a forum Chair at MacKay CEO Forums, current Chair of the Pay it Forward Foundation, and former Chair of the Advisory Board of the Special Olympics World Winter Games. He is an expert skier, kayaker and mountain biker, and he divides his time between Ontario, Canada and the Colorado Rockies.

To engage Dr. Lance Secretan for a keynote speech, a coaching assignment or to learn more about our work write to us at: http://www.secretan.com/contact-us/

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.

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.

In 2019, Mark launched the premium mastermind program, Success 2 Significance. The program is targeted at CEOs, high-growth entrepreneurs, and global leaders who have experienced great marketplace successes, yet still want to discover deeper meaning and satisfaction in their professional and personal lives. Nation’s goal is to bring together a variety of world-class leaders who support each other on the path to building an enduring legacy. Success 2 Significance is a “tight-knit leadership ‘family,’ where no one ever leads alone.”

In his presentations, workshops, consulting and coaching sessions, Mark focuses on developing authentic leaders who seek to operate with strong values and high integrity. His most sought-after topics have included purpose-driven leadership, personal branding, executive advisory services, career development and transitions, expat and global management, team building and corporate engagement, effective partnership design, and service leadership.

Mark is Founder of Nation Leadership, the Made for Amazing Project, and Harvard Help Circle. He graduated summa cum laude from the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga and holds an MBA from Harvard Business School. He is a former professional musician and Ironman triathlete who enjoys skiing, running, biking, and meeting incredible people all over the world. Mark’s work and travels have taken him to over 40 U.S. states and 35 countries, where he has managed, performed, or spoken to over 300,000 people. When not traveling, Mark is based in Tennessee.

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.

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.

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). He also sits as non-executive director on several boards in the NGO, music & film sectors.

Mongezi is also one of the founding members of the Special Interest Group on Consulting and Coaching
Psychology with the Society for Industrial and Organisational Psychologists of South Africa (SIOPSA).He is one of the early members of the International Society for Coaching Psychology (ISCP). He is former chairperson of the Membership Criteria and Standards of Competence committee with COMENSA, former Deputy Provincial Chairperson of the Gauteng provincial chapter.

Mongezi holds a BCom in Industrial Psychology and Business management, an MBA through the University of the North West, an MA in Coaching Psychology (Work-based Learning) from Middlesex University in the UK as well as a post-graduate certificate in group process consultancy (using the tavistock methodology) through the University of South Africa. He has also just completed his PhD in Organisational Psychology. Mongezi has presented and written widely on the subject of coaching, mentoring and leadership.

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.

Academic leadership: She is a leader who has profoundly impacted the profession of coaching on a global scale. While on the faculty at Harvard for over 25 years, she received a $2,000,000 gift from the Harnisch Foundation to be the founder of the Institute of Coaching. She also launched the Coaching Conference at Harvard and the IOC Leadership Forum. Our education-based community has 2,000 active members and serves coaches and those who want to use coaching skills to change their worlds.

Dr. Kauffman was also the Founding Editor in Chief of the first academic journal for a major publishing house, Coaching: An International Journal of Theory, Research and Practice. Her goal in all these organizations is to bring together evidence-based theory and research and most of all – translate it into practical applications for best practice. Her hope is to be of true service to coaches and leaders.

HBR requested she design their first research project and write “What Coaches Can Do for You,” their most frequently cited article on coaching. She is also published in many venues.

Coach approach training: Dr. Kauffman’s enormously successful Coach Approach training for leaders won the Harvard Medcial Schools Inaugural Program Award for Culture of Excellence in Mentoring. A team of researchers assessed its impact at Massachusetts General Hospital. Due to its national acclaim as the gold standard, the program is now rolled out in 23 of the top teaching hospitals in the US. Dr. Kauffman has trained hundreds of leaders at ConsenSys, Egon Zehnder, Oliver Wyman, Rifinitiv, Unilever and others.

Of all her ventures Carol most enjoys coaching leaders and partnering with them as they navigate their way forward.

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 70 awards including Outstanding Businesswoman of the Year, 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. She has been featured in 127 media outlets and publications. Her blog is consistently rated as the top business coaching blog in the UK and her book Sparks: Ideas to Ignite Your Business Growth is an Amazon best-seller. Her latest awards include Top 5 UK Coaching Blogs, Websites and Influencers (2020), Greater London’s Executive Coaching Specialist (2020), International Federation of Trainers and Developers Top 20 Global Trainers and Influencers (2020).

Shweta’s innovative and well distinguished High Performing Executive (HPeX) programme (https://growthidea.co.uk/hpex-board) brings together the power of a Board of Directors, a world class peer coaching experience and a strong Non-Executive Leadership team to work alongside SME business leaders. HPeX members consistently see measurable personal and professional growth alongside the growth of their businesses. On an average, business sees an increase of 214% in their asset value within 18 months. In her no-nonsense style, she backs all her programmes with her unique and measurable 6-month ROI guarantee – In the unlikely event a client does not generate the agreed return on investment, they are refunded the difference, no questions asked.

And this is what one of HPeX Board members has to say ‘’I’ve worked with a few people over the years and none of them have the knowledge, wisdom, empathy and determination of Shweta, let alone the strength of character to bond with you whether you’re a highly dominant individual or a shrinking violet. Shweta helped me turn myself around and the learning I have had has been vast!’’

Nearly 1000 businesses and many individuals have experienced significant personal and business growth through Shweta’s practical and purposeful coaching, keynote talks, workshops, consulting, guidance and success mindset. Her business clients are one of the most awarded client base all over the world having picked up many prestigious awards at Global & EMEA level; ‘ CEO of the Year’, Best Business of the Year’ Best Culture of the Year’, ‘Fastest Growing Business,’ Youngest Entrepreneur of the year’, Best E-Commerce Business’, Best Team of the Year’, ‘Most Innovative Firm of the year’ , ‘Best Marketing campaign of the year’, ‘Most Community Impact of the Year’, ‘Gold award for Customer Service Company’, ‘Best Overall Business of the Year’ just to name a few. Shweta honed her skills with over 12,000 hours of one to one coaching experience over the last decade and that shines through her clients and their success.

‘’Shweta is an incredible force who drives all her clients forward to achieve their best possible.’’

Shweta comes from a rural village in Western India and despite humble beginnings, with a belief in education instilled by her parents, she is known for relentlessly pursuing her purpose of helping people create better realities.  She does this by helping business executives solve problems and meaningfully engage with their stakeholders. Her businesses reflect her own strong culture of competence, non-negotiable integrity, commitment to delivering results, and uncompromising care.

‘’Excellent professional who deserves her 5-star rating. Hyper talented and experienced who quite simply has your back and cares.’’

To support the communities we live and work in, through her Private Equity firm Growth Idea (https://growthidea.co.uk), Shweta actively redeploys capital and talent in SME businesses. She is also passionately working towards empowering Indian professionals with confidence and opportunities through English communication skills and creating job opportunities for British English teachers through her pioneering Ed Tech firm, the SpeakEng Academy.

Prior to this, Shweta was Global Marketing Manager with Unilever for 9 years. She has an MBA from the Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore, and Honours in Economics.

Shweta practices daily Vipassana meditation, enjoys mountain climbing (having climbed Kilimanjaro), travelling to wild and gorgeous places (like Tanzania, Namibia, Rio’s favellas, Icelandic craters and many more), spending time with her loved ones and living life with awareness and gratitude.

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 Coach Your Way to Sustainable Success – Intensive, which emphasizes

masterful coaching skills. She published the audiobook Life’s Little Lessons: Improve Your Life One Lesson at a Time, facilitates ongoing “Coach with Confidence” mentor groups, and provides individual mentoring and supervising.

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 this book). She serves as a supervisory coach and examiner for developing coaches in an executive coaching program, 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 and plays bridge and she resides in Tarrytown, New York.

Coaching is an art form that requires strong, fundamental skills in order to help clients achieve the success they desire. Marion Franklin has done a fine job of capturing these skills in her new book. New and experienced coaches alike will benefit greatly from the detailed strategies and wisdom shared from her years of experience. Marion is a Master Coach with integrity, who clearly has her clients’ best interest at heart. You’ll have yours, too, when you read AND USE this book! —Cheryl Richardson, NYTimes Bestselling author of Take Time for Your Life.

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.

On the side, Myke is a part-time radio talkshow host of two radio stations and a podcast host talent of Australia-based Kangaroo Fern Media Lab.

When not hosting, Myke is a favorite resource person of local and international brands and companies, partnering with them for their coaching, speakership, ambassador and workshop needs.

He has served as an ambassador for the global campaigns of social media giants like Facebook and Tiktok and some of his talks can be found in the prestigious TED.com website. He has a column in MarketingInAsia.com and writes thought leadership articles for the International Coaching Federation Coaching World Blog.

A 2x winner in the International Coach Awards for Best Wellness Coach (2023-Silver, 2022-Bronze), Myke has also been recognized as one of the top Celebrity Life Coaches worldwide by Coach Foundation, as part of Insights Success Magazine’s 40 Influencers under 40 and as one of the top 100 Most Iconic Coaching Leaders Globally in the 2023 World HRD Congress. He was also named as a Finalist for the 2022 Philippine Bahagahari Awards for Pride LGBT Leader for his advocacy in support of the LGBT community. Apart from being an internationally acclaimed coach, he is also recognized by Amazon Global and National Bookstore Philippines as a certified best selling author for his #bestmeever book series.

Myke has been featured by numerous local and international media and has a total social media platform following of 187,000 and growing.

Outside of coaching, this Unicorn, who holds a Bachelors and Masters Degree from UP Diliman, the # 1 university in the Philippines, loves to travel and work out while spreading good vibes and positivity.

Marilyn O’Hearne, MA, and International Coach Federation Master Certified Coach is a globally experienced, culturally intelligent, award winning executive and leadership, team and mentor coach who has worked with leaders and coaches in more than 40 countries.

As an innovative, visionary thought partner, Marilyn sees herself as a co-pilot by your side, partnering with you to precisely map out the journey ahead, identify and overcome potential obstacles, make sure everyone else is on board and arriving on time, and stay focused, on course as you further develop your team, your organization, and yourself. As pilot and co-pilot, we keep the big, aerial picture in mind, incorporating global perspectives and a systems approach.

And as you fly out into the unknown sea of change, Marilyn’s faith and gentle strength provide a firm launching pad that does not jettison off, but continues with you as you rocket to transformation!

With Marilyn at their side, leaders, teams & ICF coaches move from overwhelm and uncertainty of our rapidly changing and culturally complex world to clarity, focus and confidence, unlocking prosperity and higher individual and organizational impact and success.