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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Discounting Days

We teach thought leaders to be commercially smart with their practices. Discounting then becomes one of the topics that comes up all the time. Here...

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Guaranteed

I don't love the use of guarantees when it comes to a Thought Leaders practice. If I were a watchmaker, I could guarantee the watch you buy from me...

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Truth is Truth

As a thought leader, you may have a moment of understanding where you seemingly discover a great idea, think it's unique, only to discover it already...

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Alone Together or Together Alone

The game of being a thought leader is one of standing out and not fitting in. As such, you might have a tendency to be an outlier perhaps even a...

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Don't Let Them Pester You Off Purpose

Our Thought Leaders CEO, Lisa O'Neill, was explaining to our comms marketing team about the precious commodity that is our students' attention. She...

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A World of Opportunity

There is a lot of chatter around what's not possible at the moment. There are still places that can't fly (in or out), there are limited conferences...

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A Game Of Make Believe

So much of what you do as a Thought Leader is playing a game of make believe. We are selling the invisible (a service) and as such we will often...

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The Subtle Activities

As you know Lisa O'Neill and I are taking turns sharing thoughts on what it takes to be commercially successful as a thought leader running a...

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Create Your World

Last week a few hundred thought leaders gathered online for our quarterly Thought Leaders Business School Conference. We call this event our...

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Modal Diversity

As part of the thought leaders practice strategy we teach the six modes of delivery. You can read about these in detail in any of our books on...

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The First of Many

Welcome to this new series of newsletters and posts focused on how you as a Thought Leader, lead your practice.

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