John Mattone
Executive Coach
John Mattone is the world’s top executive coach and the founder/co-founder of four exceptional coaching and leadership development companies, John Mattone Global (JMG), Intelligent Leadership Executive Coaching (ILEC) Franchise, Intelligent Leadership Online Academy (ILOA), and IL Coaching International (ILCI). JMG owns an industry leading 14 registered IP trademarks awarded by the USTPO.
For the third consecutive year–2019, 2020 and 2021, the research organization, Globalgurus.org, awarded John Mattone with the prestigious world’s #1 coaching authority ranking. In 2017 and 2018, Globalgurus.org recognized John Mattone as one of the top three coaching authorities in the world alongside Tony Robbins and Marshall Goldsmith. John was also a finalist for the 2017 Thinkers50 Leadership Award recognizing the world’s top leadership authority and thinker.
John Mattone is the pioneer of Intelligent Leadership (IL), a transformative, results-oriented leadership growth philosophy and process that ignites, cultivates, and polishes an individual's heart, mind, and soul in support of creating an exceptional leadership and cultural capability in an organization. The IL "Movement" began in 2010. Since then, John Mattone's IL coaching philosophy, process, and tools have transformed the lives of nearly one million people and impacted the success of thousands of organizations from every corner of the globe-53 countries to date.
Since 2017, John Mattone has personally coached and mentored over 450 global coaches in his proprietary IL philosophy, process, and tools. John Mattone has worked with and coached some of the world’s top CEO’s including Steve Jobs, Roger Enrico-PepsiCo, Yasir Al-Rumayyan-Public Investment Fund of Saudi Arabia, Faisal bin Fadel Al-Ibrahim-Minister of Economy and Planning-Saudi Arabia, Daniel Reed-UnitedLex, etc.
John’s thought leadership combined with his passion, energy, and authenticity on the speaking platform are described as “unmatched” and have earned him rave reviews from every corner of the earth, from the world’s top CEO’s and government leaders to corporate and government leaders at every level, and from serial entrepreneurs to start-up’s.
John has spoken at some of the world’s most prestigious business and leadership conclaves, including the World Business Forum and World of Business Ideas alongside the likes of Richard Branson, Steve Wozniak, Steve Forbes, and other world leadership icons.
John serves on the executive MBA faculty at FAU and is a Distinguished Senior Fellow at the Hult International School of Business. He has a Bachelor of Science in Management & Organizational Behavior as well as a Master of Science and Ph.D. in Industrial/Organizational Psychology.
John is the author of nine books, including four best-sellers: Talent Leadership, Intelligent Leadership, Cultural Transformations and The Intelligent Leader (October 2019: Forbes #1 Holiday Book; #1 Amazon Best-Selling New Release; Soundview Best Book of 2020; 56th Best Leadership Book of All Time-Bookauthority.org). His tenth book, The Executive Coach’s Handbook, will be released in May 2022.
Always wanting to help others and give back, John has created an annual scholarship, the John Mattone Endowed Graduate Scholarship Fund for Executive Coaching and Leadership at the University of Central Florida (UCF).