Here’s the Thinkers360 annual leaderboard for our top 50 thought leading companies on Innovation for 2025. Congratulations to all the organizations, thought leaders, analysts and influencers who participated!

50 Thought Leading Companies on Innovation 2025

2025 Annual Ranking

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50 Thought Leading Companies on Innovation 2025

Company Logo	Company Name (Alphabetical Order)	Company Description
	AI Leadership Institute	AI Leadership Institute empowers business leaders and professionals with AI education and hands on experience.
	AlexGoryachev.com	Elevate your event and make AI work for you with Alex Goryachev, award-winning Silicon Valley trailblazer, former Head of Cisco’s Global Innovation Centers, and Wall Street Journal Bestselling Author.
	Aurigo Software Technologies	Aurigo builds software that helps build the world. Aurigo provides modern, cloud-based solutions for capital infrastructure and private owners to help them plan with confidence, build with quality, and maintain their assets efficiently.
	Be The Dream LLC	Be The Dream Transformational Coaching is a dynamic and empowering platform dedicated to guiding individuals and businesses towards fulfilling their highest potential. Through a holistic approach to personal and professional development, we empower our clients to transform their lives and organizations from the inside out.
	Beyond Our Edge, LLC	The goal of Beyond Our Edge, LLC is to motivate institutions and individuals to come together and move beyond our edge, overcome obstacles, and address significant emerging opportunities to create real impact.
	BrianSolis.com	Brian Solis is a thought leadership and innovation brand led by renowned digital analyst, author, and futurist Brian Solis. Through research, keynote speaking, and strategic advisory, the company helps organizations navigate digital transformation, enhance customer experience, and anticipate future trends in technology and business.
	Choose2Matter	Choose2Matter is a universal movement that challenges us to make “mattering” a way of life. When people accept that they matter and that their actions count, lives, learning change and our world changes.
	DT LEADERSHIP	DT LEADERSHIP established itself as a transformative Innovation Training, Coaching and Mentoring (TCM) firm. It helps organizations embrace innovation by utilizing the integrative feature of design thinking and complementary innovation methodologies.
	Delphi Group	Providing thought leadership on business and technology trends for over 30 years. DG targeted research, ongoing thought leadership, intense exposure to new technologies through the Delphi Institute, along with our objectivity and over 25 years of experience, result in extraordinarily effective, high quality, high velocity consulting services.
	Destination Innovation	Destination Innovation is a UK-based consultancy founded by innovation expert Paul Sloane. The company specializes in enhancing organizational creativity and problem-solving through lateral thinking workshops, keynote speeches, and tailored masterclasses.
	Digital Transformation Leaders	At Digital Transformation Leaders, we help leaders and organizations create the most advanced and rewarding digital experiences and economies. Through efficiency, growth, disruption, and domination, we drive business success with cutting-edge digital strategies, AI-driven insights, and smart technologies.
	Digitalmehmet	DigitalMehmet is the personal platform of Dr. Mehmet Yildiz, a scientist, technologist, and author dedicated to empowering writers and fostering innovation. DigitalMehmet is a hub for creators seeking to amplify their voices and build meaningful connections in the digital landscape.
	Disruptive Futures Institute	Based in San Francisco, the Disruptive Futures Institute pioneers futures intelligence. They offer strategic foresight, practitioner research, and education to empower you to shape your futures in our unpredictable world.
	EY	EY exists to build a better working world, helping create long-term value for clients, people and society and build trust in the capital markets. Enabled by data and technology, diverse EY teams in over 150 countries provide trust through assurance and help clients grow, transform and operate.
	Esdha	Esdha is successfully delivering AI literacy training programs to providers and deployers of AI systems, resulting in improved awareness and understanding of AI concepts, regulations, and responsible AI best practices.
	FAVORIOT	Favoriot is a technology company that specializes in Internet of Things (IoT) solutions. It offers an IoT platform tailored for enterprises, enabling them to integrate and manage IoT devices and data effectively.
	FORTH Innovation Institute	The FORTH Innovation Institute is a thought leading company in the front end of innovation. Powered by the proven FORTH innovation method our founder and innovartion facilitators help organisations to build a culture for innovation and creating new products, services and business models.
	Galia Digital	Galia Digital is a UK-based consultancy founded by Kate Baucherel, specializing in blockchain, cryptocurrency, and emerging Web3 technologies. Established in 2012, the company offers strategic consulting, keynote speaking, and training services to help organizations navigate digital transformation and leverage cutting-edge innovations.
	HCLTech	HCLTech is a global technology company, home to more than 223,000 people across 60 countries, delivering industry-leading capabilities centered around digital, engineering, cloud and AI, powered by a broad portfolio of technology services and products.
	Human Capital Innovations	Since 2007, HCI has helped their clients break through the personal and organizational obstacles that seem to be holding them back in their professional life.
	Infynit	Built by a group of tech and finance experts who are extremely driven to humanize the credit and Credit Card experience. We’re finance meets technology, wrapped up in a simple, elegant, incredibly powerful app.
	Ingenious Growth Ltd	Ingenious Growth is a newly formed company with an unconventional approach to business growth – they help you to out-think your competition. In just six weeks, they deliver to you a series of growth opportunities that will help you meet or surpass your business targets in the coming financial quarters.
	KTH Royal Institute of Technology	KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm is one of Europe’s leading technical and engineering universities, as well as a key centre of intellectual talent and innovation. We are Sweden’s largest technical research and learning institution and home to students, researchers and faculty from around the world dedicated to advancing knowledge.
	Lean Scaleup	The Lean Scaleup – A framework for corporate business building, from idea to scale. Best Practices in corporate entrepreneurship, co-created by 100+ industry-leading companies and 2 business schools. It extends proven principles for the early stage of innovation (Lean Startup, etc.) to an end-to-end process.
	LightsOnData Consulting & Training	Practical resources and training to answer your data management and data governance questions and challenges. LightsOnData’s mission is to provide current and future data professionals with increased knowledge and better understanding of data governance, data management, and data storytelling.
	MSR Leadership Consultants India	MSR Leadership Consultants India is a leadership development firm founded by Professor M.S. Rao, Ph.D., an international leadership guru and the creator of the “Soft Leadership” model.
	Make Better Strategy	Make Better Strategy equips leaders with proven systems to design + activate clear, actionable, winning strategies. Faster and more pragmatic than anybody else.
	Mastercard	Mastercard powers economies and empowers people in 200+ countries and territories worldwide. Together with their customers, they’re building a sustainable economy where everyone can prosper.
	McKenna Associates Inc	McKenna Associates Inc. is an advisory firm founded by Patrick J. McKenna, an internationally recognized strategist, author, and advisor to professional service firm leaders.
	MiDAS Green Innovations	MiDAS provides consulting and expert witness services, book publication and conference services transcending Incrementalism of technology development.
	Microsoft	Every company has a mission. What’s Microsoft? To empower every person and every organization to achieve more. They believe technology can and should be a force for good and that meaningful innovation contributes to a brighter world in the future and today.
	Nexxworks	nexxworks helps companies regain the fluidity and radical innovation they lost as they grew. They inspire with the most radical innovations in your industry. They fire up your extreme customer centricity, with a double transformation: digital AND human.
	Open Innovation Lab of Norway	Open Innovation Lab of Norway is a “by invitation only” community of Norway’s most innovative corporations and some of the world’s leading open innovation experts.
	Outcome	Outcome is an innovation consultancy founded by Cris Beswick and Dan Toma. Combining thinking and approaches from their two bestselling books Building a Culture of Innovation and The Corporate Startup their work is based on a holistic, outcome-driven approach to supercharging leadership and corporate innovation performance.
	PeopleKult	PeopleKult (re)shapes work cultures. Our approach to culture change is based on behavioral science and analytics. We scale up change consistently and efficiently.
	SageBerry Consulting	SageBerry Consulting provides strategic advisory services to retail and consumer brands, with a focus on transformational leadership. SageBerry has worked for a diverse range of clients including Fortune 500 companies, start-ups and fast growing smaller brands.
	ServiceNow	The Digital Explorer is a leading Strategy and Digital Transformation Advisory firm, that empowers organisations to navigate the ever-ServiceNow (NYSE: NOW) makes the world work better for everyone. Their cloud-based platform and solutions help digitize and unify organizations so that they can find smarter, faster, better ways to make work flow.
	StarCIO	StarCIO enables all organizations to drive digital transformation, and partners with tech companies to reach C-level decision-makers.
	TTIP Global	TTIP Global enables innovative science, technology and engineering companies to scale and grow by delivering commercial growth, building your organization and developing your people.
	Tata Consultancy Services	Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) is an IT services, consulting, and business solutions organization that has been partnering with many of the world’s largest businesses in their transformation journeys since its inception in 1968.
	The F* Word	The F* Word stands at the forefront of digital fashion innovation, offering a comprehensive, browser-based suite that transforms fashion design. With our cutting-edge Fashion AI engine, the f* word simplifies 3D creations, revolutionizing the way fashion is conceptualized, created, and brought to market.
	The Mobile Institute	The Mobile Institute helps educate, enable and empower organizations to capture their share of the global mobile marketplace. Connect with them for more information and details on how to actively participate in their mobile community & collaboration initiatives.
	The Silver Bullet Machine Manufacturing Company Limited	The Silver Bullet Machine Manufacturing Company Limited is a UK-based innovation consultancy founded by Dennis Sherwood. Rather than producing physical machinery, the company specializes in building organizational capabilities—what they term “Silver Bullet Machines”—that empower businesses to consistently generate and implement innovative ideas.
	Trust Habits Institute	The profitability of companies has less to do with the amount spent on R&D and more with the level of company-wide innovation. Innovative companies enjoy higher profits when they introduce new products and services, before competition occurs, experience higher market share, and sustain consistent high profits over time because they continue to deliver new products and services ahead of their competitors.
	Value Inspiration	Value Inspiration is a strategic consultancy founded by Ton Dobbe, a seasoned product marketing expert with over 27 years in the enterprise software industry. Specializing in assisting B2B SaaS scale-ups, the firm helps companies define unique value propositions and reposition their software offerings to achieve greater market traction.
	Visualise Solutions	Based in Leicestershire, UK, Visualise Solutions specialises in helping medium-sized businesses thrive by providing innovative solutions and achieving measurable progress towards their desired outcomes.
	VladimerBotsvadze.com	Vladimer Botsvadze is a world-renowned digital transformation and social media influencer, keynote speaker, start-up advisor and internet personality who drives growth and positions brands as market leaders in their industries.
	mimik	mimik’s mission is to empower businesses to operationalize agentic solutions by enabling freedom of choice, seamless adaptability, and sustainable growth. Without the right foundation, businesses risk building fragile systems—a house of cards waiting to collapse under the weight of complexity and inefficiency.
	unblox Solutions	unblox Solutions platform will allow you to create, issue, and verify document, certificate or anything digital in a secure, decentralized, and simple manner. Built on Archethic Blockchain technology, unblox provides increased security, ease of use, and instant verification, making the process of creation & verification quick and stress-free.
	ztudium	Ztudium Group are pioneers in leveraging emerging technologies to drive transformative solutions for brands. Their integrations of AI, blockchain, digital twins, and the metaverse empower businesses in groundbreaking ways.

Our listing includes members of Thinkers360 and who have curated and shared their thought leadership content from around the web – including articles, blogs, books, keynotes, media interviews, panels, podcasts, social media, speaking events, videos, webinars and whitepapers – via our platform to build their Thinkers360 profile, portfolio and media kit.

Our differentiation from the various influencer leaderboards on social media, is that we take a holistic view of thought leaders and experts, beyond their social media activity, and look across all the hats they may wear – such as academic, analyst, author, consultant, entrepreneur, influencer and speaker – and all the types of thought leadership content they produce.*

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Frequently Asked Questions

What specific criteria were used to select the top 50 thought leading companies? 

The Thinkers360 thought leadership leaderboards are by participation and everyone is invited to join by signing up at Thinkers360.com. There is no difference in how we calculate the rankings between free and paid members.

The Thinkers360 leaderboards are based on member’s personally authored content and experience curated from around the web and added to their Thinkers360 profile, portfolio, and media kit.

Unlike social media leaderboards which can be gamed via the purchase of fake followers, spamming of hashtags, and sharing of third-party content, the Thinkers360 leaderboards are based on member’s real content and accomplishments. Something that’s a true measure of expertise and hard to fake.

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To access resources on Innovation from our members, simply Sign Up for Thinkers360 and visit our Content menu. There you can filter by any topic of interest from over 100 cutting-edge business, technology, and sustainability topics. You can also filter content by over 70 content types such as articles, blogs, books, keynotes, media interviews, panels, podcasts, social media, speaking events, videos, webinars, whitepapers, as well as awards, certifications, and many other professional positions, credentials, and achievements.

You can also view each thought leader’s content by going to their profile on Thinkers360, scrolling down to the “Publication” section, and then expanding to see all their content, awards, and recognition. This includes direct links to their content published around the web such as articles, blogs, books, podcasts and speaking.

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