“BY THE NUMBERS” 2026

Strategic Marketing And Advertising Innovation

Steven J. Manning, a globally recognized innovator, stands among the true pioneers of modern marketing and strategic communications, creating empirical and qualitative models, data-driven targeting systems, and media and promotional innovations that have become international standards across multiple industries.

This proficiency drives sustained growth, quantifiable growth, operational excellence, and competitive superiority across multiple verticals, including marketing, manufacturing, services, higher education, technology, financial services, logistics, public and private sector organizations, finance, and telecommunications.

Business Leadership And Enterprise Building

As a founder, CEO, leader, and board member of multiple U.S. and European companies, he excels in scaling operations, leveraging team competencies, and gifting businesses to employees for sustainability. It fosters long-term success by aligning organizational strengths with market needs.

Among his notable accomplishments, in addition to generating tens of billions of dollars in revenue flows, Manning created the direct response industry in the former Iron Curtain countries when that “curtain fell.”

He was corporate structure and governance, marketing, course development, and human resources leader of Milton Friedman University (formerly Zsigmond Kiraly College) from its infancy to maturity.

Advisory/Consulting

Manning is engaged by firms across all stages of development—from entrepreneurial ventures to global Fortune 1000 organizations, including Fortune 5—to provide strategic guidance in corporate governance, regulatory and governmental relations, crisis and conflict resolution, executive communications, workforce and leadership optimization, mergers and acquisitions, brand and marketing and advertising strategy, operational efficiency, and enterprise-wide growth initiatives.

Manning is co-founder, publisher, business intelligence strategist, and content creator for MONDAY INFLUENCER® and MONDAY INFLUENCER ABSTRACTS®. MONDAY INFLUENCER® is a world-class strategic digest that distills elite thinking into executable strategy for mastering business, career, and life.

Consulting In Product/Service Development And Analytics

Manning provides end-to-end services from concept to execution to post-results analytics, regulatory compliance, and corporate governance across industries.

This holistic approach ensures clients navigate complex markets effectively, reducing risks and maximizing ROI in advertising, legal review, product development and launches, and the conversion of customer service imperatives to revenue-generating opportunities.

Public Speaking And Thought Leadership

He speaks globally on leadership, economics, conflict resolution, corporate governance, regulatory agencies compliance, and technology, drawing from “millions of business and life miles.” This builds influence, inspires innovation, and positions him as a trusted advisor for navigating societal and economic shifts.

As a speaker, Manning is an exceptional choice for any event seeking to inspire, educate, entertain, and provoke thought.

Writing And Broadcasting

Authored forty commissioned expert talks for the Access Group/Bookboon. With over 75 million downloads a year, they are the biggest publisher of business content in the world. Twenty of those talks were top downloaded in the world.

Commissioned to write for the McGraw Hill Leadership in The 21st Century portal for 7,500 groups of universities and college professors worldwide.

His books—The Business of Life, taking a wrecking ball to conventions and norms in search of independent thought, and the internationally acclaimed Pimps, Whores and Patrons of Virtue—are followed by forthcoming works including Explaining Bitcoin to Buddhist Monks, Thanks Oscar (Wilde), All About Women, 26 Ways to Get Over Yourself and Be Successful in Life and Business, and The Inheritance of Survival: The Inner Lives of Children of Holocaust Survivors.

Featured subject matter expert on 85 global interviews and podcasts in the past two years.

His writing and speaking distills complex ideas into actionable insights, enhancing personal and professional growth for readers in business and life philosophy.