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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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The Lazy Chat

Don't use CHAT GPT for your newsletters and blogs.

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Do You Have an Open House?

What's your 'open house' strategy?

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Limiting Stories

So much of the time, the thing that's stopping a thought leader's success is the stories they tell themselves that just aren't true.

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What Annoyance Teaches You

What might your next annoyance gift you?

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Your Three Jobs

Our curriculum teaches that a thought leader has three jobs: to think, to sell, and to share what they know.

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The Four Hidden Roles of Thought Leaders

No matter how your expertise turns up, it's worth stepping into these four foundational roles.

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Inspired by the Company We Keep

Running a commercially successful thought leaders practice creates a tension between being a distinct individual in the world and feeling part of...

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Being Gentle on Yourself

The journey to success as a thought leader running a commercially successful practice has stretch, growth, and increase, and makes some demands on...

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What Drives You

Act as if your lived experience has been shaping and forming the insights you can share with the world because that's exactly what they do!

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Fully Self-expressed

We have so many different SELF labels in the world; the idea of being self-expressed needs some unpacking.

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Wisdom on Holding Thoughts Lightly

Buddha said that with our thoughts, we create the world. My teachers say that he was addressing the idea that the world of phenomena is created in...

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