Marcia Martin

Marcia Martin is a celebrated global speaker, executive trainer, and transformational coach, and the international best-selling author of Sex, Power, and Transformation - her personal memoir about the inception and rise of the $48 billion dollar self-development industry. As a respected expert in leadership, communication, and peak performance she has personally trained more than 300,000 individuals worldwide, and consulted for major branded companies including Hard Rock International, Warner Bros., Capital One, DANONE, McCain Foods, InterContinental Hotels Group, and Evian. Marcia was a central architect behind many of the personal development industry’s most influential movements and helped shape the early careers of iconic figures including Tony Robbins, Jack Canfield, and Bob Hoffman.

Marcia was personally mentored by visionary thinkers Buckminster Fuller, Peter Drucker, Werner Erhard, Warren Bennis, Oscar Ichazo, and Jerry Weintraub. She was the co-creator of the Transformational Leadership Council with Jack Canfield, Co-Founder of the Network for Transformational Leaders Europe and Asia, and was a Founding Member, Senior Vice President and on the Board of Erhard Seminars Training (est)—now known as Landmark Worldwide —where she played a pivotal role in its meteoric rise, helping bring transformational education to millions worldwide and regularly filling auditoriums with tens of thousands of participants under her leadership. She was credited by founder Werner Erhard as “the one who put est on the map.”

As CEO of Marcia Martin Productions LLC, she is known for blending rigorous corporate strategy with deep philosophical and spiritual insight—earning a reputation for delivering paradigm-shifting breakthroughs in leadership and human performance. In 2011, her humanitarian work was formally recognized when she was knighted by the Knights Hospitaller of St. John of Jerusalem. She has been featured on CNN, FOX, CBS, and MSNBC.