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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Maybe Don't Quit Yet

It's a privilege to be able to choose how we work and live for many don't have that choice. For a great majority of people in the world, making ends...

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Awesome V Awful

When we wake up to a new reality (awareness), we can often be overwhelmed by our past ignorance and as such move very quickly from denial to despair...

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Your top line menu

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Your Top Line Menu

An exercise you might find useful is to think through your practice through a website top menu metaphor. This is something that can then become...

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My Opinion on Opinions

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My Opinion on Opinions

The key is to realise that having an opinion is a key way we manage our path through the world. Opinions and thoughts create meaning and give our...

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The World Needs You

Write that book, deliver that TED talk, build a world-class system around the intellectual property that exists at the intersection of what you know,...

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Pressure to Perform

Change your relationship to the pressure, don't let pressure change your life. No time to read the blog? You can listen to it here The direct nature...

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When Your Practice Feels Like Work

The distinction we make between a job, a business and a practice is central to the labour of love, liberation model that sits behind running a...

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It's Never Really About the Money

What drives you to do what you do?

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Trust the Process

We have a saying within our Business School that you need to trust the process. This is not unique to us as many developmental programs suggest that...

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Can't Not Do

What is that thing, as a thought leader, that you can’t not do? This double negative is intentional. Try to resist the urge to rewrite it to "can do"...

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Selling You is Different

There are lots of ways to do business. We teach two clear ways that a thought leader can be commercially smart in a practice: The first is going for...

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Know Your Worth, Be of Service, Get Paid

Commercial conviction removes the need to be convincing. Historically, selling has been presented as a series of sales techniques and negotiation...

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