ANTHONY ROBINS
Anthony Robins, Although his
focus is not officially leadership, his
strategies and methods support and
develop leadership across the board
making us change our initial decision
and provide him his well-deserved
title as one of the best leadership
speakers in the world. He has taken
Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP)
to new heights and created a num-
ber of models used by leadership
and sales trainers across the world
today, Tony Robins is truly a pioneer
in the area of Training and leadership
development, and a large number
of leaders of industry have at least
attended a Tony Robins seminar. He
is well known international speaker
famous for being the most dynamic,
energetic and inspirational of all the
leadership gurus.
Simon Sinek
Simon Sinek is an unshakable optimist.
He believes in a bright future and our
ability to build it together. Described as
“a visionary thinker with a rare intellect,”
Sinek teaches leaders and organizations
how to inspire people. With a bold goal
to help build a world in which the vast
majority of people go home everyday
feeling fulfilled by their work, Sinek is
leading a movement to inspire people to
do the things that inspire them. Sinek is
the author of three best selling books: –
The global best seller, “Start With Why:
How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to
Take Action”, The New York Times and
Wall Street Journal best seller, “Leaders
Eat Last: Why Some Teams Pull Together
and Others Don’t”. And his latest book,
just launched September 2016, is the
New York Times best seller, “Together
is Better: A Little Book of Inspiration”.
Simon has four more books pending, in-
cluding “Find Your Why: A Practical Guide
to Discovering Purpose for You and Your
Team”, coming out late 2017. A trained
ethnographer, Sinek is fascinated by the
leaders and companies that make the
greatest impact in their organizations and
in the world, those with the capacity to
inspire, he has discovered some remark-
able patterns about how they think, act
and communicate and the environments
in which people operate at their natural
best. He has devoted his life to sharing
his thinking in order to help other leaders
and organizations inspire action.
TOM
PETERS
Tom Peters is certainly one of the
best leadership thought leaders
and speakers in the world and has
been for longer than may of our
new Top Leadership speakers/
trainers on this list. He became
world famous when he wrote
his best-known book In Search
of Excellence with Robert Water-
man. The book was written, at a
time when the competitiveness
of America was being threatened
by Japan and demonstrated that
there were still many excellent
American companies. On the
Management arena, they call
him the Red Bull of management
thinkers. Tom encourages leaders
to strive more for excellence de-
spite the trying and tough times.
He is also the chairman of the
Tom Peters Company. While his
popularity as dwindled and Tom
Peters mostly focuses on man-
agement these days, he still has
an impact on leadership devel-
opment through his foundational
ideas and is still a sought after
Leadership Speaker. As a speak-
er is structured and steady and
while his book is internationally
recognized, Tom Peters is mostly
known in North America.
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