Top 20 LinkedIn Consultants in 2026 (Ranked by Data)

#20 · Fabienne Niehues, 299 median likes

Fabienne Niehues, based in Germany, advises on personal and corporate LinkedIn and is also a business angel and speaker. Her Leadership posts earn a 392 median, almost twice her Content Marketing posts (202), the subject closest to her trade.

Her median has eased gently: 344 in 2024, 332 in 2025, 307 so far in 2026.

"Die besten Führungskräfte zeichnen sich nicht durch Titel und Macht aus." Her most liked post of the year, a German-language leadership post: 1,581 likes, 5 times her median. Read it

#19 · Romain Bouvet, 311 median likes

Romain Bouvet, based in France, holds a doctorate in social and cognitive psychology and now speaks and trains on neuromarketing. Of the consultants we have writing data for, he writes the shortest posts (126 words on average). Content Marketing is his one listed subject, at a 400 median.

His yearly median peaked at 868 in 2025, then fell to 256 so far in 2026.

"Un simple changement de phrase peut tout changer." His most liked post of the year, a French-language breakdown of one image he uses in his training sessions: 1,584 likes, 5 times his median. Read it

#18 · Gabriel Millien, 323 median likes

Gabriel Millien, based in the United States, works on enterprise AI execution as a fractional CAO, board member and keynote speaker. He has the third-most posts analyzed in the top 20 (320), and AI is his main subject by far (132 posts).

His AI posts earn a 350 median, ahead of his AI Ethics posts (279). Our yearly data on him covers 2026 only.

"AI is making us dumber. And we're paying $20 a month for it." His most liked post of the year turns the subject he sells against its users: 2,574 likes and 445 comments, 8 times his median. Read it

#17 · Dr. Corina Taban, 343 median likes

Dr. Corina Taban is the CEO of 934 Advisors, based in France, a former Meta and Microsoft employee, an organisational behaviour researcher and a TEDx speaker. Her Change Management posts earn a 369 median, her AI Ethics posts 325. Our yearly data on her covers 2026 only.

"Stuck on something? Let's talk." Her most liked post of the year, the monthly invitation to her open office hours: 674 likes, twice her median. Read it

#16 · Richard Goold, 345 median likes

Richard Goold, based in the United Kingdom, is a growth advisor to the founders, CEOs and boards of consulting firms: a consultant whose clients are consultancies. His Psychology posts earn a 580 median, well ahead of his Leadership posts (421), his most frequent subject.

His most liked post of the year, with no caption text to quote: 1,401 likes and 257 comments, 4 times his median. See it

#15 · Will Stewart, 350 median likes

Will Stewart, based in the United States, helps business owners bring AI into their companies after 30 years in tech and operations. AI Ethics is his most frequent subject (344 median), and his AI posts earn 386.

"He didn't just hand him the jersey. He put it on him." His most liked post of the year is a football story, not an AI post: 6,715 likes, 19 times his median, the widest gap in the top 20. Read it

#14 · Jesse Chan, 372 median likes

Jesse Chan (see the data biography), based in the United Kingdom, runs LinkedIn for founders who want a recognisable personal brand. A number shows up in 46% of her hooks, the highest rate among the consultants we have writing data for.

Her yearly median went from 514 in 2024 to 924 in 2025, then 341 so far in 2026, on far fewer posts (47 this year). Her Psychology posts (398) beat her LinkedIn posts (341).

"Your best chapter hasn't been written yet. But it's definitely coming." Her most liked post of the year: 2,525 likes, almost 7 times her median. Read it

#13 · Chisom Nwankire, 402 median likes

Chisom Nwankire, based in Nigeria, is a brand strategist and social media marketer for brands and founders. She is the smallest account in the top 20 (16k followers) and has its highest engagement rate, 2.47%, just under the 20k line of the efficiency cut below.

Her 224 median comments rank fourth in the top 20. Our yearly data on her covers 2026 only.

Her most liked post of the year, a late-night story about a friend ready to delete her LinkedIn account after leaving her job: 1,860 likes and 599 comments. Read it

#12 · Hayden Swerling, 404 median likes

Hayden Swerling is a people and change consultant based in the United Kingdom, formerly with the Big Four, who helps executives through organisational change. He has the fourth-most posts analyzed in the top 20 (236).

His median rose from 291 in 2025 to 388 so far in 2026. Leadership carries his feed (92 posts, 447 median), ahead of HR (425) and Change Management (369), his own field.

"The best people don’t prove they are the smartest in the room. They make the room smarter." His most liked post of the year: 2,880 likes, 7 times his median. Read it

#11 · Si Conroy, 413 median likes

Si Conroy, based in the United Kingdom, is a former SaaS CEO, trained at PwC, who advises Gen X founders and leaders on profit, systems and practical AI. The second-smallest account in the top 20 (30k followers), he ranks second in the efficiency cut below, at 1.37%.

His Psychology posts earn a 438 median, ahead of Leadership (356), his most frequent subject. Our yearly data on him covers 2026 only.

"This sounds like a nice HR speech. Until you look at the numbers." His most liked post of the year, on a clip of Leena Nair talking about the people inside Chanel: 5,100 likes, 12 times his median, the second-widest gap here. Read it

#10 · Daniel Goleman, 426 median likes

Daniel Goleman, based in the United States, directs his emotional intelligence online courses and is senior consultant at Goleman Consulting Group. He has the biggest audience in the ranking, 5.8 million followers, and its lowest engagement rate, 0.01%.

He also has the fewest posts analyzed in the top 20 (31). His Leadership posts earn a 571 median, his Psychology posts 441. By year: 658 in 2025, 486 so far in 2026.

"In this month's newsletter I continue with the conversation around AI and emotional intelligence (known as EI or EQ)." His most liked post of the year, a newsletter post: 1,627 likes, almost 4 times his median. Read it

#9 · Seth Yakatan, 442 median likes

Seth Yakatan, based in the United States, is an advisor, investor and board member who raises capital and sells companies. His 234 median comments are the third-highest in the top 20. Our yearly data on him covers 2026 only.

"Huge congrats to the entire team at Glass House Brands Inc." His most liked post of the year, a photo post celebrating a company's NYSE moment: 628 likes, under one and a half times his median, the smallest gap in the top 20. His rank rests on consistency. Read it

#8 · Lindsey Herman, 447 median likes

Lindsey Herman is a global people and talent leader and startup advisor based in the United States. Her audience replies the least in the top 20: 24 median comments, one for every 19 likes. Our yearly data on her covers 2026 only.

"Don’t give up. No matter how tough it is today, tomorrow could bring the breakthrough." Her most liked post of the year, written for people looking for their next role: 2,789 likes, 6 times her median. Read it

#7 · Dave Ulrich, 449 median likes

Dave Ulrich, based in the United States, is a speaker, author and professor who works on talent, leadership, organization and HR. The second-biggest account in the top 20 (415k followers), he is also the only one whose main subject is HR (493 median), ahead of Leadership (464).

He has the flattest trajectory here: 465 in 2025, 460 so far in 2026.

"Most conversations about HR transformation focus on what HR does: HR purposes, practices, analytics, and competencies of HR professionals." His most liked post of the year: 821 likes and 306 comments, under twice his median. Read it

#6 · Stephynie Malik, 455 median likes

Stephynie Malik, based in the United States, is a crisis and reputation strategist and the founder and CEO of CharterX. She has the second-fewest posts analyzed in the top 20 (46), and Leadership is her one listed subject.

Two years running, her median has fallen: 754 in 2024, 538 in 2025, 419 so far in 2026.

"There are roughly two ways to triple my fee: try to avoid it or lie." Her most liked post of the year, a client story from inside a billionaire's crisis: 1,560 likes, more than 3 times her median. Read it

#5 · Stefanie Costi, 564 median likes

Stefanie Costi, based in Australia, calls herself the anti-bullying lawyer; she is also a TEDx speaker and writer working for safer workplaces. Her Conflict Resolution posts earn a 763 median, ahead of Employee Relations (602) and Mental Health (596), her most frequent subject.

She also ranks #5 in our Australia ranking. Our yearly data on her covers 2026 only.

"If you need to bully, humiliate or intimidate people to get your way, you’re not very good at your job." Her most liked post of the year, on her own subject: 2,911 likes and 358 comments, 5 times her median. Read it

#4 · Arslan Iqbal, 575 median likes

Arslan Iqbal is a personal brand strategist based in Pakistan who helps founders, CEOs and executives build authority on LinkedIn and X. His 1.24% engagement rate is third in the efficiency cut below.

From 323 in 2025, his median rose to 589 so far in 2026. His Communication posts earn 707, above his LinkedIn posts (527), his most frequent subject. He also ranks #3 in our Pakistan ranking.

His most liked post of the year has a caption of two words, "I agree", and an emoji: 2,239 likes and 274 comments, almost 4 times his median. Read it

#3 · Guillaume Guerra, 631 median likes

Guillaume Guerra is a wealth management adviser in France for company heads and professionals, with more than 20 years in the job. He has the most posts analyzed in the top 20 (374) and writes the longest posts we measured here, 335 words on average.

The split by subject is the starkest on this page. His Leadership posts earn a 1,102 median; his Finance posts, the field he advises on, earn 80. His yearly median went from 812 in 2025 to 589 so far in 2026.

"Le vrai leadership ne se mesure pas à un titre." His most liked post of the year, a French-language leadership post: 7,339 likes, almost 12 times his median and the second-biggest post in the top 20. Read it

#2 · Jasmine Gathoga, 804 median likes

Jasmine Gathoga is a LinkedIn brand strategist and designer based in Kenya. She holds the highest median comment count in the top 20, 612, and leads the efficiency cut below with a 2.04% engagement rate.

Her median has the steepest rise on this page: 57 in 2024, 216 in 2025, 858 so far in 2026. Her Content Marketing posts earn 917, ahead of LinkedIn (766) and Social Media (694).

"I've been in a relationship for over a year now" Her most liked post of the year, written as a wedding ceremony script, pastor's lines included: 1,500 likes and 1,296 comments, the most comments on any best post in the top 20. Read it

#1 · Dr. Elizabeth Lindsey, 2,791 median likes

Dr. Elizabeth Lindsey, based in the United States, is a strategic advisor to CEOs and a National Geographic Explorer who writes on wayfinding and navigating uncertainty.

She tops this ranking with 2,791 median likes per post, more than three times the consultant in second place, and a 1.08% engagement rate on 259k followers.

Her median barely moves: 2,672 in 2025, 2,584 so far in 2026, on 283 posts this year. Leadership (3,355) and Psychology (3,197) carry her feed. She also ranks #20 in our worldwide ranking and #2 in our personal branding ranking.

"Character isn't built in big moments. It's built in small ones. When no one's watching." Her most liked post of the year: 10,262 likes and 702 comments, almost 4 times her median and the biggest post in the top 20. Read it

Where do these cards come from? We computed every figure on this page from public posts with MagicPost's LinkedIn analytics: median engagement, engagement rates, themes and trajectories, across 1,022 consultants. It works on your profile too, including a side-by-side with anyone on this list.

Which LinkedIn consultants have the highest engagement rate?

Raw like counts reward whoever has the biggest crowd. Engagement rate corrects for that: median likes per post divided by followers (accounts with 20k followers and over).

Four of the five also sit in the top 20. The fifth, Ciara O'Neil, who does LinkedIn content marketing for founders and teams in the United Kingdom, posts almost the same rate (1.20%) on a smaller median.

Dr. Elizabeth Lindsey is the only account above 100k followers in this cut. The top 20 runs from 2.47% (Chisom Nwankire, under the 20k line) down to 0.01% for Daniel Goleman, the biggest account here.

Which LinkedIn consultant gets the most comments per post?

Comments relative to likes: the record in our consultant pool is held by Ewan Mcallister, who sells a LinkedIn sales system to B2B founders in the United Kingdom, at 583 median comments against 116 median likes, 5.03 comments for every like (counting accounts with 100+ median likes).

Anthony Jorand in France (135 against 105) and Bob DePasquale, a keynote speaker in the United States (153 against 135), follow. The typical top-20 consultant gets one comment per 3 likes; Jasmine Gathoga gets about one per 1.3.

What do the top LinkedIn consultants post about?

Mostly leadership. It is the main subject of 9 of the top 20 LinkedIn consultants, and it appears among the top three subjects of one more. Guillaume Guerra's finance posts earn 80 likes at the median, against 1,102 for his leadership posts.

Five of the twenty sell LinkedIn or social media work: Jasmine Gathoga, Arslan Iqbal, Chisom Nwankire, Jesse Chan and Fabienne Niehues. Two more, Will Stewart and Gabriel Millien, sell AI work and post most often about AI. The rest advise on change, HR, crises, capital or careers.

Consulting overlaps with two neighbouring pools. The top LinkedIn coaches (867 active coaches, pool median 32) and the top LinkedIn founders (2,375 active founders, pool median 36) both draw more likes at the median than the 1,022 consultants here (25).

Some people here could sit in either: Stephynie Malik founded CharterX, and Seth Yakatan invests and sits on boards. The classification picks one archetype per profile.

Eight of the top 20 are based in the United States, four in the United Kingdom and three in France. Kenya, Pakistan, Australia, Nigeria and Germany have one each.

This ranking measures how each consultant's posts land with their audience. It says nothing about the quality of their advice, which happens off the feed.

And if commenting under these consultants' posts is how you plan to learn from them, an engagement feed keeps it to a five-minute daily habit.

How we ranked the top LinkedIn consultants

All of this is MagicPost's own research. We went through the last 12 months of posts from 1,022 consultants and ranked them by median likes per post.

Who counts as a consultant: a profile enters the pool when our own creator classification marks it as a consultant.

The archetype (consultant, coach, founder and so on) is our own classification of each profile: some people here would introduce themselves first as a lawyer, a professor, an investor or a speaker.

Only creators with at least one post in the last 60 days are ranked. The method:

• Floors: at least 5,000 followers and 30 posts in the window; deleted posts excluded.

• Every post counts: a consultant is ranked on everything they publish, whatever the subject.

• Median rather than average: no single viral post can buy a place.

• Posts analyzed: the posts our dataset holds per consultant, sometimes fewer than they published.

Rankings refresh as the data does. No placement here was sponsored; every rank comes straight from the median.

Study them, then study yourself. With MagicPost you can analyze any LinkedIn profile the way we just did (median engagement, engagement rate, themes, trajectory) and benchmark your own against this pool. The data on this page is the product.