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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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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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On Boundaries

"It is said that in order not to break our vow of compassion we have to learn when to stop aggression and draw the line. There are times when the...

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The Book You Wish You Had Written

As thought leaders running commercially successful practices, I thought we might talk this week about books.

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Disagreeing Gracefully

As thought leaders running commercially successful practices, we are often in the business of sharing points of view. When we do this people can...

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True Not New

When things are tough we often want 'new' in the hope that we don't have to deal with the gnarly 'old' issues that keep turning up.

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Up and Out, Down and In

We have to be both 'up and out' at times and then 'down and in the work' at other times.

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Stories Are Tools Not Truths

Stories can define us and perhaps diminish or even distract us.

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Hard or Gentle

Go hard when you wish and gentle when it feels right. Too much of one or the other and you lose your balance or your harmony. No time to read the...

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Identity and Impact

The habit of "What is the impact that you are making as a group?" versus "What is the identity that you're creating or curating for yourself?" helps...

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Earth School

When you see yourself and your work as a story that is rich in meaning, you get to relax the 'not good enough' or 'the imposter syndrome' a little...

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