
Naïlé Titah
Management is one of the busiest topics on LinkedIn: we count 33,451 management posts in the last 12 months in our dataset alone. Almost all of them go nowhere. The typical management post earns 24 likes.
So who actually moves the needle when they talk about leadership, teams and managing people? At MagicPost, we took the 450 creators in our dataset who post about management consistently (at least 10 management posts in the last 12 months, minimum 5,000 followers) and ranked them by median likes on their management posts alone. Not their overall fame: what happens, today, when they hit publish on this specific topic. Number twenty earns 33 times the typical management post. Number one earns 171 times it.
Two numbers you will not find anywhere else sit in each profile below: the share of feed (is management their whole identity or a side topic?) and the vs-overall figure: whether their management posts earn more or less than their own usual median. The surprise at the top: the highest-impact management voice here is a German investor, the only one in this anglophone-dominated list, and management is barely a tenth of what he writes.
The full board first, then the countdown:

TL;DR: We ranked the top 20 LinkedIn creators on Management by one number nobody else publishes: median likes on their management posts alone, over 12 months and 450 creators. Carsten Maschmeyer leads with 4,112 median likes per management post, 171x what the typical management post earns (24 likes).
#20 · Hala Taha, 795 median likes per management post

Followers | Median likes (management posts) | Management posts (12 mo) | Share of feed | vs overall median | Engagement rate |
299k | 795 | 11 | 4% | +34% | 0.27% |
Hala Taha hosts the Young and Profiting podcast and runs YAP Media. Management is only 4% of her feed, yet those rare posts earn 34% more than her overall median. Her best management post of the year is about the cost of building something rather than managing it.
"Nobody remembers the party you skipped in 2019. But they definitely remember what you built instead." 1,371 likes. Read it
#19 · Leila Hormozi, 799 median likes per management post

Followers | Median likes (management posts) | Management posts (12 mo) | Share of feed | vs overall median | Engagement rate |
334k | 799 | 15 | 4% | -24% | 0.24% |
Leila Hormozi, founder and CEO of Acquisition.com, is one of two Hormozis in this top 20. Management is just 4% of her feed, and the data shows it under-earns: her management posts do 24% less than her overall median. Her audience came for the building-a-company story, not the team-management one.
"I cooked food at home to save money. I cleaned my house to save money. I price matched different grocery stores to save money." 2,076 likes. Read it
#18 · Dan Martell, 820 median likes per management post

Followers | Median likes (management posts) | Management posts (12 mo) | Share of feed | vs overall median | Engagement rate |
187k | 820 | 10 | 4% | +5% | 0.44% |
Dan Martell, author of Buy Back Your Time and a serial software founder, posts management the least of anyone here (10 posts) at a slight 5% premium over his overall median. His best management post is the delegation story his whole book is built on.
"I haven't read my emails since June 2022. That's when I hired my Executive Assistant Ann and completely changed how I operate." 1,637 likes. Read it
#17 · George Stern, 870 median likes per management post

Followers | Median likes (management posts) | Management posts (12 mo) | Share of feed | vs overall median | Engagement rate |
378k | 870 | 62 | 17% | -21% | 0.23% |
George Stern, an ex-McKinsey entrepreneur and elected official, posts management more than almost anyone in this top 20: 62 posts, 17% of his feed. The data shows the volume cost: those posts earn 21% less than his overall median, and his yearly card slips from a 1,032 median in 2025 to 867 in 2026. His best management post of the year still cleared five figures.
"Most careers stall for 1 reason: People stop learning. They wait for the company to invest in them." 13,101 likes. Read it
#16 · Guillaume Guerra, 931 median likes per management post

Followers | Median likes (management posts) | Management posts (12 mo) | Share of feed | vs overall median | Engagement rate |
164k | 931 | 15 | 3% | +21% | 0.57% |
Guillaume Guerra is a French wealth-management adviser and the only France-based creator in this top 20. Management is just 3% of his feed but carries a 21% premium, and his yearly card climbs from a 660 median in 2025 to 931. His best management post of the year is in French, on what talent actually looks for in an employer.
"Les talents ne cherchent pas un emploi. Ils recherchent un environnement où ils peuvent s'épanouir." 2,160 likes. Read it
#15 · Reno Perry, 995 median likes per management post

Followers | Median likes (management posts) | Management posts (12 mo) | Share of feed | vs overall median | Engagement rate |
578k | 995 | 10 | 3% | +9% | 0.17% |
Reno Perry is a career coach who places senior individual contributors and people leaders into high-paying roles. Management is 3% of his feed at a 9% premium. His best management post of the year leans on a piece of advice from a former US president.
"The best career advice President Obama ever gave? Just learn how to get things done." 3,341 likes. Read it
#14 · Pascal Bornet, 998 median likes per management post

Followers | Median likes (management posts) | Management posts (12 mo) | Share of feed | vs overall median | Engagement rate |
1.5M | 998 | 15 | 3% | -26% | 0.07% |
Pascal Bornet, an AI and automation author with the largest audience of this top 20, is best known for a different topic: management is only 3% of his feed, and those posts earn 26% less than his overall median, the steepest discount of the list. His best management post of the year uses a cartoon about budget cuts.
"After so many budget cuts… why don't we move faster? This cartoon says it all." 4,383 likes. Read it
#13 · Sahil Bloom, 1,013 median likes per management post

Followers | Median likes (management posts) | Management posts (12 mo) | Share of feed | vs overall median | Engagement rate |
709k | 1,013 | 16 | 4% | -13% | 0.14% |
Sahil Bloom, a bestselling author and investor, treats management as a 4% side topic that earns 13% less than his overall median. His best management post of the year is a reframe of what discipline actually means.
"Nobody talks about what discipline really is. Most people have it completely wrong." 4,077 likes. Read it
#12 · Ben Meer, 1,028 median likes per management post

Followers | Median likes (management posts) | Management posts (12 mo) | Share of feed | vs overall median | Engagement rate |
844k | 1,028 | 17 | 8% | +15% | 0.12% |
Ben Meer writes systems for health, wealth and free time to an audience of more than two million across platforms. Management is 8% of his LinkedIn feed at a 15% premium. His best management post of the year is, fittingly, a system.
"This quote hits hard. A 5-step system for becoming undeniably reliable:" 4,238 likes. Read it
#11 · Andrew Bolis, 1,133 median likes per management post

Followers | Median likes (management posts) | Management posts (12 mo) | Share of feed | vs overall median | Engagement rate |
234k | 1,133 | 11 | 4% | +13% | 0.48% |
Andrew Bolis is an AI and marketing consultant whose management posts are a 4% slice of his feed at a 13% premium. His best management post of the year is the workhorse format of the category: a list of advanced prompts to save for later.
"Stop asking ChatGPT to summarize content. Use these 9 advanced prompts to extract strategies, build frameworks, and find insights:" 1,673 likes. Read it
#10 · James Clear, 1,196 median likes per management post

Followers | Median likes (management posts) | Management posts (12 mo) | Share of feed | vs overall median | Engagement rate |
314k | 1,196 | 16 | 8% | +30% | 0.38% |
James Clear, the author of Atomic Habits, brings the shortest posts of this top 20 (a 21-word average) and one of its biggest premiums: his management posts earn 30% more than his overall median. His best management post of the year is a single push to stop planning and start finishing.
"Finish something. Anything. Stop researching, planning, and preparing to do the work and just do the work." 3,300 likes. Read it
#9 · Victoria Repa, 1,206 median likes per management post

Followers | Median likes (management posts) | Management posts (12 mo) | Share of feed | vs overall median | Engagement rate |
500k | 1,206 | 12 | 5% | +4% | 0.24% |
Victoria Repa, CEO and founder of BetterMe, posts management as a 5% slice of her feed at a 4% premium. Her best management post of the year is a direct take on why most measurement systems fail.
"Here's why most KPIs don't work: Many companies build their systems around numbers. But not around people." 3,591 likes. Read it
#8 · Ronnie Kinsey, 1,401 median likes per management post

Followers | Median likes (management posts) | Management posts (12 mo) | Share of feed | vs overall median | Engagement rate |
236k | 1,401 | 10 | 4% | +5% | 0.59% |
Ronnie Kinsey is an executive coach who works with high achievers on leadership and emotional intelligence. Management is 4% of his feed at a 5% premium, on the second-strongest engagement rate of this top 20. His best management post of the year is about teams that look fine on paper but never quite click.
"I've worked with teams where strong performers delivered well, but the work never connected." 3,876 likes. Read it
#7 · Codie Sanchez, 1,417 median likes per management post

Followers | Median likes (management posts) | Management posts (12 mo) | Share of feed | vs overall median | Engagement rate |
565k | 1,417 | 14 | 4% | +18% | 0.25% |
Codie Sanchez invests in Main Street businesses and teaches her audience how to buy them. Management is a 4% slice of her feed at an 18% premium. Her best management post of the year is two words long.
"Keep going." 3,652 likes. Read it
#6 · Colby Kultgen, 1,772 median likes per management post

Followers | Median likes (management posts) | Management posts (12 mo) | Share of feed | vs overall median | Engagement rate |
506k | 1,772 | 21 | 9% | -14% | 0.35% |
Colby Kultgen, the Canada-based founder of 1% Better, runs one of the heavier management volumes of this top 20 (21 posts, 9% of his feed). The data shows the trade-off: those posts earn 14% less than his overall median, though his 2026 card holds a 2,002 management median. His best management post of the year is a reframe of failure.
"A reframe that changed my life: Failure = Data." 8,909 likes. Read it
#5 · Eric Partaker, 1,893 median likes per management post

Followers | Median likes (management posts) | Management posts (12 mo) | Share of feed | vs overall median | Engagement rate |
1.2M | 1,893 | 93 | 19% | +3% | 0.16% |
Eric Partaker is a CEO coach and the volume record of this ranking: 93 management posts in 12 months, more than four times anyone above him, and 19% of his feed, the highest focus of the top 20. He sustains a 3% premium across that pace, though his yearly card softens from a 2,179 median in 2025 to 1,591 in 2026. His best management post of the year goes straight at micromanagers.
"Brutal truth: Micromanagement is just a fancy word for insecurity." 5,651 likes. Read it
#4 · Alex Hormozi, 1,921 median likes per management post

Followers | Median likes (management posts) | Management posts (12 mo) | Share of feed | vs overall median | Engagement rate |
949k | 1,921 | 15 | 3% | -25% | 0.20% |
Alex Hormozi, founder of Acquisition.com and co-founder of Skool, is the higher-ranked of the two Hormozis here, and the one we profiled in his data biography. Management is only 3% of his feed and earns 25% less than his overall median, the same tourist discount his audience applies whenever he steps off the topics it came for. His best management post of the year is a four-word opener.
"It's not hard to…" 7,593 likes. Read it
#3 · Chris Donnelly, 1,935 median likes per management post

Followers | Median likes (management posts) | Management posts (12 mo) | Share of feed | vs overall median | Engagement rate |
1.2M | 1,935 | 15 | 4% | +88% | 0.16% |
Chris Donnelly, co-founder of Searchable, is the premium anomaly of this ranking (we profiled him in his data biography). Management is just 4% of his 402-post year, yet those posts earn 88% more than his overall median, the biggest theme premium of the top 20 by a wide margin. His best management post of the year is a clean framework for OKRs and KPIs.
"OKRs are destinations. KPIs are your map. Ignore either and you won't scale." 3,204 likes. Read it
#2 · Ken Cheng, 2,501 median likes per management post

Followers | Median likes (management posts) | Management posts (12 mo) | Share of feed | vs overall median | Engagement rate |
218k | 2,501 | 12 | 9% | +70% | 1.15% |
Ken Cheng sits one spot off the top with the second-biggest premium of the list: management is 9% of his feed and earns 70% more than his overall median, on the second-strongest engagement rate of the whole top 20. His best management post of the year is the now-famous worm interview.
"I only ask one question in job interviews. Would you still work for me if I were a worm?" 6,463 likes. Read it
#1 · Carsten Maschmeyer, 4,112 median likes per management post

Followers | Median likes (management posts) | Management posts (12 mo) | Share of feed | vs overall median | Engagement rate |
505k | 4,112 | 16 | 12% | +16% | 0.81% |
Carsten Maschmeyer, a German entrepreneur and startup investor, tops this ranking and is the only non-anglophone voice in its top half. His median management post earns 4,112 likes, 1.6 times the #2 and 171 times the typical management post on LinkedIn. Management is just 12% of his feed, yet it carries a 16% premium over his own overall median, and his 2025 card sits even higher at a 5,105 median. His best management post of the year, in German, takes on the idea that working from home means slacking off.
"Homeoffice ≠ Freizeit! Nur weil jemand von zu Hause aus arbeitet, heißt das nicht, dass die Person gerade im Garten liegt und Piña Colada schlürft!" His most liked management post of the year: 15,838 likes. Read it
Where do these cards come from? Every figure on this page runs on MagicPost's LinkedIn analytics: median engagement per theme, share of feed, theme premiums, trajectories, across 450 management creators and 33,451 management posts. It works on your profile too, including a side-by-side with anyone on this list.
Just missed the cut
Five names land right behind, and they say a lot about how this ranking works. Kevin Box (#21, 784 median likes per management post), César Solís (#22, 774) and Tim Denning (#23, 768) miss the cut by a handful of likes of median. Then comes Gary Vaynerchuk (#24, 753), one of the most famous business voices on the platform, held back for a structural reason: volume. Vaynerchuk published 1,062 posts in 12 months across every topic, and a median is merciless with volume: every additional post has to beat your typical one. We profiled his full data biography here. Daniel Pink, the bestselling author of Drive, closes the list (#25, 745) with a 43% management premium. Publish a little less, hit a little harder, and any of the five enters the top 20 at the next quarterly refresh.
The efficiency champions (pound for pound)
Raw likes favor big audiences, so here is the other cut: engagement rate on management posts, median likes divided by followers (minimum 20k followers). The list changes completely:
Creator | Followers | Engagement rate | Median likes (management) |
21k | 1.29% | 267 | |
218k | 1.15% | 2,501 | |
36k | 1.01% | 363 | |
27k | 0.90% | 244 | |
505k | 0.81% | 4,112 |
The champion is Tim Hillison, a fractional go-to-market operator: one follower in 78 likes every management post he writes, a hair ahead of Ken Cheng, who holds a 1.15% rate on an audience ten times bigger. Ken Cheng and Carsten Maschmeyer are the only two people in both the absolute top 20 and this efficiency top 5.
The volume game (total management engagement)
One more cut: not the typical post, but the total likes generated on management posts over 12 months. This is where the high-frequency voices get their due:
Creator | Total likes on management (12 mo) | Management posts |
170,585 | 93 | |
77,267 | 16 | |
75,780 | 62 | |
52,585 | 21 | |
50,879 | 99 | |
43,257 | 78 | |
36,644 | 15 | |
34,582 | 40 |
Eric Partaker generates the most total engagement, with 93 posts. Carsten Maschmeyer reaches second place with only 16: the rare creator who tops both the impact ranking and the volume one without flooding the feed.
The conversation champion
The ratio of comments to likes, the cut nobody publishes. The management record belongs to Nathan Hirsch: 227 median comments against 221 median likes on his management posts, more than one comment per like when the platform norm is one per ten. He builds business portfolios in public, and his comment section is busier than his like count.
The residents and the tourists
Of the 450 creators who post management consistently, only 15 dedicate more than half their feed to it. This top 20 has none of those residents: the highest focus here is Eric Partaker at 19%, then Carsten Maschmeyer at 12%, and most of the list sits at 3% or 4%. Management, at this level, is a topic that famous people visit, not one they live in.
The data behind that pattern is consistent: an audience that did not sign up for management still rewards a clear management take, with the biggest premiums going to tourists like Chris Donnelly (+88%) and Ken Cheng (+70%), while the heavier publishers like Colby Kultgen and George Stern earn less per post than they do on everything else. If you write about management occasionally, you are playing the easier game.
A few of these creators top their home countries too: see Germany (Maschmeyer), the United Kingdom (Donnelly, Partaker, Ken Cheng), the United States, Canada and France, or the full series. And if your plan includes showing up in these creators' comments, an engagement feed makes that a daily five-minute habit.
Study them, then study yourself. With MagicPost you can analyze any management creator the way we just did (median engagement by theme, share of feed, premiums, trajectory) and benchmark your own profile. The data on this page is the product.
Where this data comes from
Everything in this article is MagicPost's own research, not a copied list. MagicPost analyzed 33,451 management-themed LinkedIn posts from the last 12 months, kept the 450 creators with at least 10 management posts and 5,000 followers (deleted posts excluded, company pages excluded), and ranked them by median likes on their management posts. We also computed each creator's share of feed, their management premium versus their own overall median, engagement rates and conversation ratios. Rankings refresh as the data does; figures dated June 2026. No one paid to be on this list, and no one can: it is arithmetic.
Häufige Fragen
Who is the top management creator on LinkedIn in 2026?
By real impact (median likes on management posts over the last 12 months), Carsten Maschmeyer: 4,112 median likes per management post, 1.6 times the number two (Ken Cheng) and 171 times the typical management post on LinkedIn.
How is this ranking calculated?
Median likes on each creator's management-themed posts over the last 12 months, among the 450 creators MagicPost analyzes with at least 10 management posts and 5,000 followers. Median, not average, so one viral post cannot buy a spot, and only management posts count, so general fame cannot either.
Does posting about management boost engagement on LinkedIn?
For about half of this top 20, yes: the biggest premiums reach 88% (Chris Donnelly) and 70% (Ken Cheng), and the effect is strongest for "tourists" whose feed is mostly about something else. But the typical management post still earns just 24 likes: the topic rewards a clear point of view, not participation.
Who are the most efficient management creators?
By engagement rate on management posts (median likes / followers, minimum 20k followers): Tim Hillison (1.29%), just ahead of Ken Cheng (1.15%), Paulina Stricker (1.01%) and Violeta Hryhorian (0.90%).
Are the top management voices full-time management creators?
No. Only 15 of the 450 eligible creators dedicate more than half their feed to management, and not one of them makes this top 20. The list is dominated by entrepreneurs, coaches and authors for whom management is a 3% to 19% side topic, not the core of what they post.
Which countries dominate management content on LinkedIn?
Most of this top 20 is based in the United States, with the United Kingdom (Donnelly, Partaker, Ken Cheng) and Canada (Kultgen, Martell) placing creators, and Germany (Maschmeyer) and France (Guerra) one each. Country-by-country rankings are in our country series.
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