John Mattone is widely considered the world’s top executive coach and is globally respected for his ability to ignite and strengthen a leader’s inner self and talents. Since 2017, he has been ranked by Global Gurus as one of the top three coaching authorities in the world, alongside Tony Robbins and Marshall Goldsmith. John is the creator of the unique, powerful, and game-changing Intelligent Leadership (IL) Executive Coaching philosophy and process. Since 2012, John has used his proprietary coaching methodology with more than 50 global CEOs, top government leaders and professional athletes to help them become stronger, more effective, and vibrant leaders and people. John served as the executive coach to the late Steve Jobs, as well as to the former, legendary CEO of PepsiCo, Roger Enrico. In 2015, John’s leadership system was named one of the top three Advanced Leadership Development Programs in the world, alongside John Maxwell’s and Tony Robbins’s work.

John is also an internationally acclaimed keynote speaker, presenting at events and to companies all over the world. Whether John is keynoting an event, conducting a retreat, or coaching an executive, he has earned a global reputation for possessing a special ability to unlock and unleash greatness in leaders at all levels.

In addition to being known for his leadership coaching, John is widely regarded as one of the world’s leading authorities on corporate culture and culture transformation. A respected advisor to CEOs of small- and mid-sized entrepreneurial organizations and large global businesses alike, John provides guidance on how to create and sustain a leadership culture that drives superior operating results.

John is the creator of John Mattone University (JMU), which offers the unique and game-changing Intelligent Leadership Executive Coaching blueprint for success—accredited by the International Coach Federation. Since 2017, John Mattone has personally coached and certified over 400 global executive coaches from 52 countries in his proprietary IL philosophy, process, and tools. JMU also offers the 2.5 Day Intelligent Leadership Retreat, the CEO Aspire Elite Mastermind, The Intelligent Leader 4-Day Mastermind Immersion, as well a series of award-winning virtual and online leadership development programs. He is also the creator of a number of breakthrough leadership and culture assessments, including the Mattone Leadership Enneagram Inventory (MLEI), the 5 Cultures of Culture Assessment (5CCA), and the Cultural Transformation Readiness Assessment-40 (CTRA-40).

Since relaunching his business in 2010, after 15 years of corporate life, John Mattone has been on a mission to help current and future leaders, as well as organizations, to break through to become the best they can be. Perhaps the greatest testimony to John’s core purpose and the realization of his dream are his many philanthropic endeavors, including his creating an annual scholarship fund in his name at the University of Central Florida, his alma mater, where in 1980 he graduated first in his class with an MS in Industrial/Organizational Psychology. The John Mattone Leadership & Coaching Scholarship will be awarded each year to a deserving Master’s or Ph.D. student who shows great promise and potential in the field of coaching and leadership.

Since 2011, John has consistently been recognized by Globalgurus.org, Thinkers50, Forbes, CNN, Leaders Excellence, Warren Bennis’s Leadership Excellence magazine, HR.com, and many others as one of the world’s best executive coaches and speakers. He serves on the executive MBA faculty at Florida Atlantic University, where he also teaches his enormously popular Global Leadership Assessment & Development (GLAD) course. Through this three-credit course, John has personally coached over 500 EMBA students. He also serves on the faculty at ZfU International Business School in Zurich, and is a Distinguished Senior Fellow at Hult International Business School, one of world’s leading business schools.

The author of nine books, John has written three best-sellers: Talent Leadership, Intelligent Leadership, and Cultural Transformations: Lessons of Leadership and Corporate Reinvention. In 2017, John’s blog was named the number one executive coaching blog in the world by Feedspot. His work has been featured in the Wall Street Journal, CNN, Forbes, Fast Company, Businessweek, Inc magazine, MarketWatch, the Huffington Post, CEO magazine, ChiefExecutive.net, CLO magazine, CIO magazine, the Globe and Mail, Harvard Business Review, and many other respected global news outlets.

Prior to his executive coaching work, John was the president of one of the top leadership consulting firms in the world, Executive Development Associates, Inc. (EDA). He holds a B.S. degree in Management and Organizational Behavior from Babson College and an M.S. in Industrial/Organizational Psychology from the University of Central Florida.