| 1 | W Chan Kim & Renee Mauborge | INSEAD | South Korean; American |
| 2 | Roger Martin | Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto | Canadian |
| 3 | Amy Edmondson | Harvard Business School | American |
| 4 | Alexander Osterwalder & Yves Pigneur | Strategyzer; University of Lausanne | Swiss; Belgian |
| 5 | Rita McGrath | Columbia Business School | American |
| 6 | Daniel Pink | Independent | American |
| 7 | Richard D'Aveni | Tuck School of Business, Dartmouth College | American |
| 8 | Erik Brynjolfsson & Andrew McAfee | MIT Sloan School of Management | American |
| 9 | Scott D. Anthony | Innosight | American |
| 10 | Adam Grant | The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania | American |
| 11 | Simon Sinek | Independent | British-American |
| 12 | Eric Ries | The Long-Term Stock Exchange (CEO and founder) | American |
| 13 | Lynda Gratton | London Business School | British |
| 14 | Whitney Johnson | Harvard Business School | American |
| 15 | Zhang Ruimin | Haier (CEO and chairman) | Chinese |
| 16 | Hal Gregerson | MIT Sloan School of Management | American |
| 17 | Liz Wiseman | The Wiseman Group | American |
| 18 | Hermina Ibarra | London Business School | American |
| 19 | Pankaj Ghemawat | Stern School of Business, New York University | Indian-American |
| 20 | Martin Lindstrom | Lindstrom Company | Danish |
