The world top 30 Leadership gurus.

TOP WORLD'S TOP 30 LEADERSHIP PROFESIONAL'S
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JOHN MAXWELL
John C. Maxwell is an internationally recognized leadership expert, speaker, and author who has sold over 13 million books. His organizations have trained more than 2 million leaders worldwide. Dr. Maxwell is the founder of INJOY®, Maximum Impact, ISS and EQUIP. Every year he speaks to Fortune 500 companies, international government leaders, and organizations as diverse as the United States Military Academy at West Point and the National Football League. A New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and Business Week best-selling author, Maxwell was one of 25 authors and artists named to Amazon.com's 10th Anniversary Hall of Fame. Three of his books, The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership, Developing the Leader Within You, and The 21 Indispensable Qualities of a Leader have each sold over a million copies.
Leadership Inspiration: Exceptional

ROBIN SHARMA
Robin Sharma is an internationally respected leadership expert and author who has worked with executives globally for over 10 years with exceptional results. Robin’s books on personal and professional mastery have sold millions of copies.
Leadership Inspiration: Exceptional

TOM PETERS


Fortune called Tom Peters the "Ur-guru" of management. The Economist tagged him the Uber-guru; and BusinessWeek's take on his "unconventional views" led them to label Peters "business's best friend and worst nightmare."
Leadership Inspiration: Exceptional

STHEPEN COVEY
Dr. Covey dedicates his life to teaching principle-centered living and leadership to individuals, families, and organizations. Holder of an MBA from Harvard and a doctorate degree from Brigham Young University, Dr. Covey is author of the international bestseller, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, named the #1 Most Influential Business Book of the Twentieth Century, and other best sellers that include First Things First , Principle-Centered Leadership, and The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Families.
Leadership Inspiration: Great

MARCUS BUCKINGHAM
Robin Sharma is an internationally respected leadership expert and author who has worked with executives and Fortune 500 clients globally for over 10 years with exceptional results. Robin¹s books on leadership and personal development have sold millions of copies.
Leadership Inspiration: Great


MARSHALL GOLDSMITH
Marshall Goldsmith Partners LLC is a leadership development firm that delivers consistently superior executive coaching as well as other leadership development services to clients globally. We bring together the behavioral coaching expertise of Marshall Goldsmith, renowned executive coach, and the power of Katzenbach Partners LLC (KPL), a leading organizational performance consulting firm.
Leadership Inspiration: Exceptional

KEN BLANCHARD
Chief Spiritual Officer of The Ken Blanchard Companies®, an international management training and consulting firm that he and his wife, Dr. Marjorie Blanchard, founded in 1979 in San Diego, California
Leadership Inspiration: Very good

ANTONY ROBBINS
Born February 29, 1960) is an American self-help writer and professional speaker. He became well known through the use of firewalking in his seminars. He initially studied Neuro-Linguistic Programming but went on to develop his own methods
Leadership Inspiration: Exceptional

JACK WELCH
Jack Welch John Frances Welch Jr. was born in Salem, Massachusetts, in 1935. A 1957 University of Massachusetts graduate, with a B.S. in chemical engineering, Welch continued to pursue his education at the University of Illinois, with M.S. and PhD degrees in chemical engineering. Jack Welch joined General Electric in 1960, and after only a year, he actually wanted to leave the company and take a job offer he had received from International Minerals & Chemicals.
Leadership Inspiration: Great

ATHUR F CARMAZZI
Arthur F. Carmazzi is the founder of the Directive Communication Psychology and bestselling Author. He is the premier expert in leadership and corporate culture transformation in the Asian region. As a renowned motivational leadership keynote speaker and trainer, he has advanced Corporate Training with innovative techniques and tools that have been acknowledged by some of the world's greatest organizations. His literary works include co-author of "The 6 Dimensions of Top Achievers", author of "Identity Intelligence" and "Lessons from the Monkey King . He has also developed The “Directive Communication Facilitation Series (12 volumes)” and the “Culture Evolution Handbook”. Arthur's tools and methods have earned him and the Directive Communication methodology accreditation from the prestigious American Institute of Business Psychology.
Leadership Inspiration: Exceptional


JIM COLLINS
Jim Collins is a student and teacher of enduring great companies -- how they grow, how they attain superior performance, and how good companies can become great companies. Having invested over a decade of research into the topic, Jim has authored or co-authored four books, including the classic BUILT TO LAST, and GOOD TO GREAT. His work has been featured in Fortune, The Wall Street Journal, Business Week, Harvard Business Review, and Fast Company
Leadership Inspiration: Great

PAUL BRIDLE
Paul is a Leadership Methodologist. For over seventeen years he has studied effective organizations and the people that lead them. As a result of his research around the world, he is called upon to assist both private as well as public organizations by acting as an advisor or consultant on a range of projects relating to management and leadership issues or development.
Leadership Inspiration: Exceptional

SUBIR CHOWDHURY
Subir's major expertise is in Design For Six Sigma leadership and quality strategy LEO (Listen, Enrich, Optimize).He regularly advices CEOs and senior leadership in how to achieve bottom line results using LEO, Six Sigma and Design for Six Sigma.
Leadership Inspiration: Exceptional

HARVEY MACKAY
Harvey Mackay is the author of the New York Times #1 bestsellers Swim With The Sharks Without Being Eaten Alive and Beware the Naked Man Who Offers You His Shirt. Both books are among the top 15 inspirational business books of all time, according to the New York Times. is also a popular and entertaining business speaker and was named one of the top five speakers in the world by Toastmasters International.
Leadership Inspiration: Great

MARK SANBORN
International best-selling author of The Fred Factor, Mark Sanborn is known as "the high content speaker who motivates." He presents over 90 programs each year on leadership, team building, customer service and mastering change.
Leadership Inspiration: Exceptional


WARREN BENNIS
Dr. Warren Bennis (Antioch College, Class of 1951) is one of the nation's foremost authorities on organizational development, leadership and change.Since 1979, Dr. Bennis has served as University Professor and Distinguished Professor of the Marshall School of Business at the University of Southern California. He considers that he has entered a truly generative stage in his life, one in which he pursues his greatest joy, writing, while also mentoring and taking pleasure in "people growing."
Leadership Inspiration: -

ROSABETH MOSS KANTER
Rosabeth Moss Kanter holds the Ernest L. Arbuckle Professorship at Harvard Business School, where she specializes in strategy, innovation, and leadership for change. Her strategic and practical insights have guided leaders of large and small organizations worldwide for over 25 years, through teaching, writing, and direct consultation to major corporations and governments
Leadership Inspiration: -

RICHARD CHANG
served as the 1999 Chair of the Board for the American Society for Training and Development (ASTD), has served as a member of the 1992-94 National Board of Directors and has been a past president of the Orange County Chapter. Based on significant contributions to the Society and the profession, he has been recognized with the Gordon Bliss Memorial Award and the Torch Award, two of the highest forms of national leadership recognition provided by ASTD. In addition, Richard maintains professional affiliations with the American Society for Quality (ASQ), the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM), the National Speakers Association (NSA), and the Organization Development Network (ODN).
Leadership Inspiration: -

BARRY Z POSNER
Barry Posner is Dean of the Leavey School of Business at Santa Clara University, located in the heart of Silicon Valley. He is the co-author of the award-winning and best-selling leadership book: The Leadership Challenge: How to Keep Getting Extraordinary Things Done in Organizations
Leadership Inspiration: -

STU SAUNDERS
One of the most successful and effective youth speakers in North America. For almost 20 years Stu has traveled across the United States and Canada delivering hilarious, empowering and memorable presentations. In fact he has spoken to more then 2000 universities, colleges, high schools, middle schools, leadership conferences and corporate groups. Over two million people have heard Stu speak.
Leadership Inspiration: Exceptional


RAM CHARAM
Ram Charan is a highly acclaimed speaker and advisor. He is the coauthor of Execution and the author of What the CEO Wants You to Know and many other books.
Leadership Inspiration: -

LAURA NGRAHAM
After graduating from Dartmouth College, Laura worked as a speechwriter in the final two years of the Reagan Administration at the White House, the Department of Transportation and the Department of Education.In addition to hosting her own syndicated radio program, Laura is an author, frequent columnist, and television commentator. Her latest book, Shut Up & Sing: How the Elites in Hollywood, Politics...and the UN are Subverting America is a bestseller. Her work has influenced some of the worlds most influential people to take an active leadership role in making a difference.
Leadership Inspiration: Very good

ED LUDBROOK
Educating the world of Network Marketing on five key concepts that will provide the strategic framework for the industry to become much larger and more professional. A clear industry vision [Shakeout!], a correct network strategy [100% Success], a guaranteed leader strategy [TidalWave], proper coaching skills [100% Success Coach] and proper skill-based leadership training. The first four are required to create a stable network to allow for proper leadership training. When the industry has embraced these concepts, he intends to retire, help save the planet from global warming and produce a fantastic Rosé wine to celebrate life with his family in the sun.
Leadership Inspiration: -

SAMUEL CHAND
Authored and published seven books. Failure: The Womb of Success with twenty Christian leaders. FUTURING: Leading your Church into Tomorrow is creating future oriented dialog across the country...Who’s Holding Your Ladder reminds all leaders that the most critical decision they’ll make is selecting their leaders… Who Moved Your Ladder: Your Next Bold Move provides pragmatic guidelines for dealing with transitions in life and leadership. What’s Shakin’ Your Ladder: 15 Challenges All Leaders Face provides ongoing counsel to high-impact leaders. LADDERShifts: New realities - Rapid change - Your destiny. Ladder Focus: creating, sustaining, and enlarging Your BIG Picture—for leaders who desire focus in their ministry with practical know how.
Leadership Inspiration: Very good

Narayana Murthy
Born on August 20, 1946 in Karnataka, India. He obtained his Bachelor of Electrical Engineering (B.E.) from University of Mysore in 1967 and his Master of Technology (M.Tech.) from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kanpur in 1969. He founded Infosys in 1981 along with six software professionals. He is the Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer of Infosys. He was a member of the operating system team that designed real time operating system for handling air cargo for Charles de Gaulle airport, Paris. He was the President of National Association of Software and Service Companies (NASSCOM) from 1992 to 1994.
Leadership Inspiration: Exceptional


JIM BAGNOLA
Expertise and passion is in the field of leadership and body-mind management with emphasis on the influence of thinking patterns on health, happiness, success, and the capacity to lead. He has been speaking and educating worldwide—on six continents, as well as across the United States for over twenty-five years. Jim’s workshop topics include Leadership, Stress Management, Customer Service, Coaching Skills, and Change—all in relation to “The Secrets of the Mind-Body Connection.” He inspires listeners to turn within and awaken to the reality of their own greatness. Jim’s goal is simple: to build Professional Human Beings.
Leadership Inspiration: Exceptional

ROBERT QUINN
Worked with many executives and their teams and has created many change tools. The Deep Change Group is a network of professors and consultants who use the tools and processes Bob has created over the years. The Deep Change group falls under the larger umbrella of The Competing Values Company. Competing Values is a firm that focuses on creating Change and Innovation within organizations. Competing Values provides many service, part of which are the services offered by the Deep Change group.
Leadership Inspiration: -

JONAR C NADER
Jonar C. Nader is the anti-Dale Carnegie. Fed up with what he calls "inefficiency, inaccuracy, inconsistency, and untruths," he wrote How to Lose Friends and Infuriate People as an antidote to winning friends, seeking excellence, and all the other clich'xe9s that dominate and cripple the world of business leadership and personal achievement. Jonar Nader helps audiences develop their skills and work with others.
Leadership Inspiration: -

JOHN PIPER
Pastor for Preaching at Bethlehem Baptist Church in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He grew up in Greenville, South Carolina, and studied at Wheaton College, where he first sensed God's call to enter the ministry. He went on to earn degrees from Fuller Theological Seminary (B.D.) and the University of Munich (D.theol.). For six years he taught Biblical Studies at Bethel College in St. Paul, Minnesota, and in 1980 accepted the call to serve as pastor at Bethlehem. John is the author of more than 30 books and more than 25 years of his preaching and teaching is available free at desiringGod.org. John and his wife, Noel, have four sons, one daughter, and an increasing number of grandchildren.
Leadership Inspiration: Exceptional

Roger Konopasek
Over the past 10 years Roger Konopasek has worked hand in hand with top executives in several of the globally most recognized companies such as HP, Philips, Dell, Citibank supporting their leaders to create measurable accelerated rates of change in the teams. Re-shaping the way managers lead teams of highly bought-in individuals who fully align themselves with the company’s purpose and goals. Roger specializes in working with dynamic enterprises living through periods of rapid and significant change: companies that are growing, downsizing, restructuring, or moving into a new phase of their development.
Leadership Inspiration: -

..........Dhanasekar

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