John Mattone

John Mattone

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 USPTO.

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 along side 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 executive coaches and 25 of the world’s top CEO’s and government leaders. John Mattone is the former executive coach to the late Steve Jobs and the former legendary CEO of PepsiCo, Roger Enrico.

John is the author of ten books, including five best sellers: Talent Leadership (2012), Intelligent Leadership (2013), Cultural Transformations (2016), The Intelligent Leader (October 2019: Forbes #1 Holiday Book; #1 Amazon Best Selling New Release; Soundview Best Book of 2020; Top 50 Best Leadership Books of All Time from Bookauthority.org), and The Executive Coach's Handbook (September 2022: Amazon Best Seller and #1 New Release in Multiple Categories).

John has a Bachelor of Science in Management & Organizational Behavior as well as a Master of Science and Ph.D. in Industrial/ Organizational Psychology. He serves on the Dean’s Advisory Board (College of Sciences) at the University of Central Florida (UCF) and is a Distinguished Senior Fellow at the Hult International School of Business. 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).