John Mattone

John Mattone, Chairman & Co-Founder

John Mattone is the world’s top executive coach and the Founder of one of the world’s leading coaching and leadership development firms, John Mattone Global (JMG). JMG is also an industry-leading coach certification company that provides ICF approved and accredited certification programs to coaches and leaders through its’ trademarked and licensed brand, Intelligent Leadership. John Mattone Partners, Inc. (JMP), owns an industry-leading 16 registered IP trademarks awarded by the USPTO.

For the fifth time in the past six years–2019, 2020, 2021, 2023, and 2024 the research organization, Globalgurus.org, recently awarded John Mattone with the prestigious world’s #1 coaching authority ranking followed by Peter Chee and Tony Robbins. He 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, the IL coaching system has transformed the lives of nearly one million people and impacted the success of thousands of organizations from every corner of the globe-55 countries to date.

Since 2017, John Mattone has personally coached and mentored over 750 global executive coaches and 45 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 has authored 11 books (five bestsellers) Talent Leadership (2012), Intelligent Leadership (2013), Cultural Transformations (2016), The Intelligent Leader (2019), The Executive Coach’s Handbook (2022), Pinnacle of Influence (2024).

John has a Bachelor of Science in Management & Organizational Behavior as well as a Master of Science 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.

John Mattone and his family are paying it forward through two scholarships at the University of Central Florida: The John Mattone Endowed Graduate Scholarship Fund for Executive Coaching and Leadership (for Graduate students in Industrial/Organizational Psychology) and The Mattone Family Endowed Scholarship for Industrial/Organizational Psychology.