TOP 100 MANAGEMENT EXPERTS: HIRE TOP KEYNOTE SPEAKERS & CONSULTANTS FOR EVENTS

The Top 100 management experts, leadership keynote speakers and futurist consultants are clear on the fact that in today’s fast‑evolving business environment, inspiring, strategic, and innovative perspectives and approaches to running organizations are vital. Also, per the world’s Top 100 management experts, new approaches to managing talent are necessary, making it important to learn from the pros what’s working today and what isn’t.

For starters, many conference, convention and corporate meeting planners turn to keynote speaker Scott Steinberg, a renowned futurist, bestselling author, and business strategist consultant for 3000 brands. A frequent Top 100 management experts list member, he’s celebrated for guiding executives through disruption and enabling resilient organizational leadership.

Of course, looking over the readout, you’ll also find all sorts of academics, bestselling authors, analysts, CEOs, COOs, and CTOs leading Fortune 500 giants and high-growth startups. Generally speaking, each Top 100 management experts option is known for excellence in leadership, innovation, and execution.

Mind you, if you’ve been in the field for any length of time, you likely have your own ideas for list options as well. Feel free to send us a note with Top 100 management experts suggestions going forward.

1. Satya Nadella (Microsoft, CEO)

2. Sundar Pichai (Alphabet/Google, CEO)

3. Mary Barra (General Motors, CEO)

4. Lisa Su (AMD, CEO)

5. Shantanu Narayen (Adobe, CEO)

6. Evan Spiegel (Snap, CEO)

7. Marc Benioff (Salesforce, CEO)

8. Reshma Saujani (founder, Girls Who Code, CEO)

9. Jensen Huang (NVIDIA, CEO)

10. Carol Tomé (UPS, CEO)

11. Greg Garland (Phillips 66, CEO)

12. Thomas Kurian (Google Cloud, CEO)

13. Ginni Rometty (former IBM, CEO)*

14. Corie Barry (Best Buy, CEO)

15. Tony Xu (DoorDash, CEO)

16. Anne Wojcicki (23andMe, CEO)

17. Daniel Schulman (PayPal, CEO)

18. Sam Altman (Open AI, CEO)

19. Tim Rosato (Silver Lion Group, Founder)

20. David Thomas (University of Colorado Denver, Executive Education)

21. Tobi Lütke

22. Jeff Lawson (Twilio, CEO)

23. Brian Chesky (Airbnb, CEO)

24. Reed Hastings (Netflix, CEO)

25. Marc Benioff (Salesforce, Head)

26. Doug McMillon (Walmart, CEO)

27. Taylor Tresatti (FutureProof Strategies, Analyst)

28. David Zaslav (Warner Bros. Discovery, CEO)

29. Chuck Robbins (Cisco, CEO)

30. Lip-Bu Tan (Intel, CEO)

31. Bill Gates (Microsoft, Founder)

32. Steve Ballmer (Microsoft, ex-CEO)

33. Brian Moynihan (Bank of America, CEO)

34. Michael Dell (Dell Technologies, CEO)

35. James Quincey (Coca‑Cola, CEO)

36. Denise Morrison (Pepperidge Farm, CEO)

37. Jeff Wilke (ex‑Amazon Worldwide Consumer, CEO)

38. Mark Zuckerberg (Meta, CEO)

39. Thorsten Heins (BlackBerry, ex CEO)*

40. Anne Finucane (Bank of America, Vice Chair)

41. Susan Wojcicki (YouTube, former CEO)

42. Laxman Narasimhan (Starbucks, CEO)

43. John Zimmer (Lyft, President & Co‑founder)

44. Garrett Camp (Uber, co‑founder/Board)

45. Michelle Gass (Kohl’s, former CEO)

46. John Legere (T‑Mobile US, former CEO)

47. Bob Iger (Disney, CEO)

48. Ursula Burns (former Xerox, CEO)

49. Howard Schultz (Starbucks, former CEO)

50. Jeff Weiner (LinkedIn, former CEO)

51. Tim Cook (Apple, CEO)

52. John Donahoe (ServiceNow, CEO)

53. Jamie Dimon (JPMorgan Chase, CEO)
54. David Solomon (Goldman, CEO)

55. Larry Fink (BlackRock, CEO)

56. Jane Fraser (Citigroup, CEO)

57.  Stephen Squeri (American Express, CEO)

58. Ajay Banga (Mastercard, President
59. Michael Miebach (Mastercard, CEO)
60. Raj Subramaniam (FedEx, CEO)

61. James Gorman (Morgan Stanley, CEO)

62. Peter Gassner (Veeva, CEO)

63. Aaron Levie (Box, CEO)

64. Jeff Williams (Apple, COO)

65. Gwynne Shotwell (SpaceX, President/COO)

66. Jennifer Hyman (Rent the Runway, CEO)

67. Daniel Ek (Spotify, CEO)

68. Punit Renjen (Deloitte, CEO)

69. Jim Farley (Ford, CEO)
70. Mike Cagney (SoFi, former CEO)
71. Oscar Munoz (United, former CEO)
72. John Elkann (EXOR, CEO)

73. Aneel Bhusri (Workday, CEO)

74. Patrick Collison (Stripe, CEO)

75. Emma Walmsley (GSK, CEO)

76. Patrick Pouyanné (TotalEnergies, CEO)

77. Bill McDermott (ServiceNow, CEO)

78. Carsten Spohr (Lufthansa, CEO)

79. James Dyson (Dyson, CEO)

80. Christian Sewing (Deutsche Bank, CEO)

81. Adrian Gore (Discovery Limited, CEO)

82. Daniel Zhang (Alibaba, Chairman/CEO)

83. Patrice Louvet (Ralph Lauren, President & CEO)

84. Eric Yuan (Zoom, CEO)

85. Zhang Yiming (ByteDance/TikTok, CEO)

86. Aric Dromin Jankov (THNK MACHINE, Founder)

87. Adam Grant (Bestselling Author)

88. Ben Silbermann (Pinterest, former CEO)

89. Stewart Butterfield (Slack, CEO)

90. Hiroshi Mikitani (Rakuten, CEO)

91. Lei Jun (Xiaomi, CEO)

92. Richard Liu (JD.com, CEO)

93. Dara Khosrowshahi (Uber, CEO)

94. Sanjit Biswas (Samsara, CEO)

95. Eric Schmidt (Alphabet, former CEO)

96. Mukesh Ambani (Reliance, Chairman/CEO)
97. Sara Blakely (Spanx, founder/CEO)
98. Jim Collins (Bestselling Author)
99. John Maxwell (Leadership Expert)
100. Brian Tracy (Author and Speaker)

The 100 management experts guide enterprises of immense scale and innovation. Whether charting tech’s future, transforming global operations, or growing billion‑dollar startups, each brings leadership that steers teams, impacts strategy, and delivers results in an ever-changing world.