Matt Church - Founder

Matt Church is the founder and creator of Thought Leaders. In 1997 on a work trip to Hong Kong Matt had a vision for what has now become the Global Thought Leaders movement. Matt is an author of many leadership books all working on the premise that when you choose leadership and identify as such you contribute to making the world a better place. Matt continues to teach and support leaders across all domains of influence to capture, package and deliver what they know in service to others.

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Don’t Focus on the Algorithm

As a thought leader running a commercially successful practice, sharing what you know, it’s easy to get distracted by the latest algorithm hacks.

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The Two Things Every Thought Leader Wants to Be Working on All the Time

To run a commercially successful thought leaders practice, you want to be speaking and writing all the time.

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Three Bets on the Future

In our Business School, we teach experts how to be commercially smart by focusing on developing positioning as a leading authority, what the world...

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The Work

A thought leader’s practice takes work, make sure it’s the right work.

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What Is Possible This Month

This is the month you connect deeply.

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Don’t Teach When Selling

The commercial conversation is about invitation and exploration, try not to make it about education.

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Focus On One Thing, Then Don’t

Message, market and method are the tumblers on your practice safe. They are the combinations that help you unlock your greatest value as soon as...

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Ironicity

The irony of your expertise might be the place to locate your point of difference.

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What if You Get Hit by a Bus?

So much of what you do running a commercially successful thought leaders practice is dependent on your mojo.

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Why You May Need to Get More Support

Do more of the work you love with the people you like to spend time with in a way that works for them and you. Work you love, people you like, the...

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Process or Perspective Gurus

What do you know that you could become professionally famous for knowing?

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Don’t Become Method Locked

When you build your practice around message positioning rather than a method or a process, you start to create an attraction-based business.

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