John Mattone is a best-selling author, the world’s #1 authority on Intelligent Leadership and one of the world’s most in-demand CEO coaches & leadership speakers. Since 2017, he has been ranked by Globalgurus.org as one of the top three coaching authorities in the world alongside Tony Robbins and Marshall Goldsmith. John was a finalist for the prestigious 2017 Thinkers50 Leadership Award recognizing the world’s top leadership authority and thinker. In 2013, John was awarded the Master Corporate Executive Coach (MCEC) certification from the Association of Corporate Executive Coaches. He was then honored with the prestigious 2015 International Executive Coach Thought Leader of Distinction Award. With the award, he received an honorary lifetime MCEC, becoming one of only four global executive coaches who currently hold this certification.

 

John Mattone is the creator and master of the unique & game-changing Intelligent Leadership Executive Coaching blueprint for success - accredited by the International Coach Federation. John Mattone is the former executive coach to the late Steve Jobs and the former legendary CEO of PepsiCo, Roger Enrico.

 

Since 2011, John has been recognized by Globalgurus.org, Thinkers50, Forbes, CNN, LeadersExcellence, HR.com and many others as one of the top leadership & executive coach authorities. He also serves on the executive MBA faculty at FAU. John has a B.S. Degree in Management & Organizational Behavior from Babson College and a M.S. Degree in Industrial/Organizational Psychology from UCF.

 

John is the author of nine books, including three best-sellers: Talent Leadership, Intelligent Leadership and Cultural Transformations. His next book, The Intelligent Leader, will be published in the Fall of 2019 by Wiley.

 

Always wanting to help others and give back, John has created an annual scholarship, the John Mattone 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).

 

Most leaders have some understanding of their “inner-core” (i.e., character, self-concept, values, thinking patterns, emotional make-up, etc.) strengths and weaknesses, but most leaders may not know much about how their inner-core strengths and weaknesses translate into the “traits” that ultimately determine how they come across as a leader, which are the outer-core leadership behaviors they exhibit. Said another way: the strength, vibrancy and maturity of a leaders’ inner-core determines the strength, vibrancy and effectiveness of their outer-core.

 

There’s no one “correct” leadership style, because every organization is different and needs to be led differently. But anyone who wants to excel as a leader needs to know where they are strong and weak both in the inner-core as well as the outer-core. Great leadership is less a function of what your predominant trait is and much more a function of the overall maturity of your traits, all of which combine to determine your leadership presence and effectiveness. Do your executive clients know their predominant leadership traits? Do they know how strong, vibrant and mature each of their traits are? The MLEI can help you, the executive coach, determine answers to both of these questions. That’s why I created the Mattone Leadership Enneagram Inventory (MLEI). This powerful assessment was first created by me back in 1997. I have spent years revising, validating, and testing the MLEI constructs both empirically as well experientially with executives I have coached all around the world. While there is no perfect assessment, I have found the MLEI to be an accurate measure of a leaders inner-core maturity as it isolates strengths and gifts that need to be leveraged as well as the weaknesses that need to be addressed. Problems with leadership almost always boil down to immaturity. But the great news is, immaturity can be addressed and overcome once you know where it resides and what it looks like.