Leaderboard

The Gamification Gurus Power 100 ranked individual social influence from 2012 to 2019. It is no longer active.

Any questions on this list or gamification in general - please contact Toby Beresford

It's fascinating to see a new wave of Gamification Gurus start to dominate the top of the Gurus Power 100.

All our data collectors, including blogs, have been working well this month so the stats are as accurate as they've been for a while.

Well done to Andoni and Ercan who take the top two spots, closely followed by veteran guru Andrzej.

Rise now offers advertising slots both on the board itself and on the email - if you're interested in promoting your event or services to the gamification gurus then please do let me know.

Have a great May.

Toby

Rank			Guru score
1.	(3)	Andoni Sanz Computer Scientist + STEM Teacher + EdTechnologist + Google Educator + Moodle expert + Gamifier	88.2
2.	(8)	Ercan Altug YILMAZ First Turkish Gamification Book Author, Lecturer and Gamification Expert. www.oyunlastirma.co	68.8
3.	(10)	Andrzej Marczewski Gamification & Loyalty, designer & speaker, gamer and author of Even Ninja Monkeys Like to Play	68.7
4.	(2)	Karl Kapp Helping people understand the convergence of learning, technology, games & Gamification through engagement, laughter and insight.	66.5
5.	(1)	Monica Cornetti Gamifcation Consultant and Trainer CEO of Sententia Gamification Specializing in Train the Trainer GamiCon Gamemaster	65.6
6.	(5)	Pete Jenkins Speaker & trainer on #gamification \| CEO @gamifiplus \| Honorary Ambassador @GamFed \| Founder @gamifyawards \| Chair @gamification_eu \| Lecturer @BrightonBSchool	56.2
7.	(4)	Fabio Viola Gamification Designer/Developer, Public Speaker and Professor of Gamification & Engagement at University of Rome and Milan.	52.6
8.	(12)	An Coppens Chief game changer at Gamification Nation based in London and serving European clients.	39.5
9.	(7)	Toby Beresford rise.global CEO	38.7
10.	(9)	Sylvester Arnab Prof of #GameScience at @disrupt_learn @CovUni_CPC I #GChangers @GCRF_ACES @_mycapsule @beaconingEU \| Book https://t.co/v0JgZ0lb0B \| Believer \| Views my own	36.9
11.	(15)	Marco Tonetti Chief Product Designer at @bondlyfinance \| Not listed in Forbes 40 under 40 \| Happily married with a unicorn!	34.1
12.	(36)	David Mullich Video game designer, producer, instructor.	21.0
13.	(27)	Gal Rimon Founder of GamEffective; the enterprise Gamification for sales and Service	18.4
14.	(17)	Dade Ronan Author Speaker Web Developer IT Analyst #Gamification Consultant https://winatweb.com	17.3
15.	(6)	Gustavo Tondello Gamification Scientist and Consultant. Ph.D. Student, HCI Games Group. Logosophy Researcher.	16.2
16.	(14)	Alireza Ranjbar Shourabi I help businesses change behavior of their customers and employees. #Persuasive / #Gamification - designer / consultant.	15.6
17.	(13)	Yu-kai Chou Gamification Pioneer. Creator of the Octalysis Framework. Octalysis Group, HTC/VIVE. My work has empowered over 1 Billion User Experiences. Opinions my own.	15.3
18.	(59)	Jan Bidner A creative guy. Gamification speaker. Project manager. UX strategist, teacher and Game designer. Hospital clown. Mostly just professional digital strategist and gameful behavior designer.	14.9
19.	(18)	Mahmoud Fereydouni #MachineLearning & #SoftwareEngineer , #Gamer & #Gamification Guru	14.8
20.	(16)	George Cohta iglobe Inc. CEO Gamification & AR Evangelist, Startups Energizer, Digital Curator	14.5
21.	(11)	Patrick Bartl Change Guide @Horváth&Partners - Digital Enthusiast, Speaker \| Passion for #DigitalTransformation, #ChangeManagement, #Gamification, #DesignThinking, #AI	13.9
22.	(24)	Lluis Bueno Gamificación de negocios online y offline	13.4
23.	(22)	Marcio Rente Análise de Negócios \| Marketing Digital \| Coaching \| Pensamento Sistêmico \| Gamification \| Design Thinking	13.2
24.	(28)	Samantha Clarke Designer and researcher for game-based learning & Gamification. Cert Lego Serious Play facilitator. Mum. D&D fanatic. She/Her. blog here: https://t.co/Eu5JRzQzvX	13.0
25.	(19)	Rodrigo Borgia Gamification, Spanish, Latin America, Customer, Consultant.	12.8

26.	(20)	Andres Pisso Game Designer y CEO Diversoft, Intereses: #Gamification #Mlearning, #Lectura,#Videojuegos, #Comics & #Rock	12.7
27.	(51)	Oscar García Pañella @JamSummit @Cookiebox_SL @ENTI_BCN @iebschool - Serious Games & Gamification Program Director, Researcher, Professor, Designer, Consultant	12.5
28.	(46)	Michiel Van Eunen Gamification Expert \| Experience Designer	12.4
29.	(47)	Steven Isaacs Education Program Manager @epicgames @fncreate @unrealengine \| past: Teacher #gamedesign \| #ISTE Outstanding Teacher \| author: #esportsplaybook \| @gsesportsorg	12.1
30.	(96)	Thijs De Vries Experience designer, gamification expert, public speaker. Top 10 Gamification Guru, Speaker at TEDx.	11.5
31.	(21)	Dutch Driver WHAT I DO: I infuse executives and professionals with the crystal clear insights essential to decrease their risks; I gained from 40 years of experience.	11.4
32.	(41)	Gabe Zichermann If you're not currently on the precipice of failure, you're not doing it right. Author and Speaker on Behavioral Design & Gamification.	11.3
33.	(33)	Serena #bigdata #artificialintelligence #gamification #blogging #socialmedia	11.1
34.	(43)	Joris Beerda Gamification Expert; Octalysis Master	10.7
35.	(23)	Noemí Blanch En Versión Beta permanente, aprenseño y trabajuego. Creo en el #poderdeljuego.Soy la mitad de @playlikepanks, 1/4 de @revoludica y #femininja a tiempo completo.	10.4
36.	(105)	Flavio Escribano PhD. Head of [Gamification] Research Team at @gecon_es \|\| Founder of @arsgames. Quiz me, baby	10.3
37.	(50)	Nicolas Babin A rare combination of technology, marketing and management. Co founder of GamFed	9.4
38.	(38)	Amit Shah #Technology & Business executive helping global companies succeed. #cloud #transformation #formula1 #nba views are my own	9.1
39.	(25)	Sergio Jiménez	8.9
40.	(31)	Lennart Nacke Director of @hcigamesgroup and Associate Professor. #UX and #Gamification Strategist. Games User Researcher. #GameDesign, #GamesUR, #GameUX	8.8
41.	(29)	Juan J. F. Valera Mariscal Social Psychologist. Gamification Designer.Executive Trainer and Coach. Professor and Author:"Gamificación en la empresa","CommuniCARDS". Coordinator of Psychology and Technology Group in COPMadrid	8.7
42.	(49)	Madhusudan Rao Immersive visualisation using VR & AR, is my next focus area. Keep following me to know more! Opinions are my own.	8.0
43.	(39)	Marigo Raftopoulos Innovation \| Technology \| Artificial Intelligence \| Design Futures \| Post-Doctoral Researcher \| MSCA-IF fellow with @augment_Us \| https://t.co/kPb6LdHJ7P	7.8
44.	(118)	Emiliano Labrador Doctor en #UX y #Gamificación. Autor de El uso del color en los videojuegos @HeroesdePapelES y #ElTesoroDeSanBorondón @AyudarJugando @everis #Research	7.4
45.	(26)	Kevin Werbach Wharton prof, tech policy maven, blockchain wrangler, game thinker, MOOC teacher, pescatarian cook, feminist. Author, Blockchain & the New Architecture of Trust	7.3
46.	(34)	Bart Hufen Gamification \| Transformer \| Speaker \| Author of 'A Brand New Playground' \| Player 1 @ BrandNewGame \|	7.2
47.	(30)	José Carlos Cortizo	7.1
48.	(81)	Michael Wu Ph.D. Scientist: Big Data, Gamification, Influence, Predictive Social Analytic, Cyber Anthropology, Social Network Analysis, Machine Learning, Community Dynamics	7.0
49.	(77)	Nando Stoecklin Educational Futurist (my vision: http://goo.gl/1iOqf ), Cultural Anthropologist, Gamifier, Wikipedian	7.0
50.	(56)	Rob Hulsen co-founder Hulan Studio. Serious games with a smile ;)	7.0

51.	(58)	Dennis Kappen Gamification Consultant and Researcher, UX specialist; Interaction Experience Designer	6.7
52.	(128)	Bo Armstrong #IOpsych grad student; #tech in #training & #selection	6.5
53.	(57)	Amy Jo Kim Game Designer	6.3
54.	(94)	Semin Ozmorali Believer of #digital marketing & #ecommerce, into #UX & design trends, & coffee lover.	6.1
55.	(62)	Mario Herger I help people make work more fun	6.0
56.	(98)	Alberto Mora Computer Engineer / Gamification Researcher & Designer / Human-Computer Interaction	5.6
57.	(40)	Benedikt Morschheuser	5.2
58.	(119)	Pau Yanez Founder & CEO of @GeomotionGames. Creating location-based mobile games - @citynostra. Innovation, Games, Serious Games and Gamification.	5.1
59.	(80)	Jasper Mannaert Edupreneurs. Webdesign en Concept ontwikkeling.	5.1
60.	(68)	R Ray Wang @ConstellationR #CEO @DisrupTVShow 2X BestSelling Author @hcleadership @HarvardBiz Keynoter #Futurist Provocateur #EDM #DJ #Foodie #SVLife #TaiwaneseAm	5.0
61.	(65)	Manuel Pimenta A gamification designer with a background in development, a scout leader, a musician and an aspiring speaker/writer/blogger.	5.0
62.	(35)	Cesc Garriga Pons Gamification - Tech. Project Manager - eLearning 2.0	5.0
63.	(61)	Antonio Tbahs	4.6
64.	(42)	SeriousGamesIndustry Ronnie Dungan - head of content for http://t.co/WTHPH9K2mJ	4.2
65=	(48)	Tyler Altrup #Marketing, #SocialMedia, and #Gamification doer, music/concert nut, sneakerhead, STL by birth, SF by choice. Opinions are my own. He/him.	4.1
65=	(45)	Eric Montoya Seller @LiveRamp #OmniChannel Identity Resolution Evangelist\|eCommerce\|SocialGood Husband\|Christian\|Foodie\|Gamer\|Clarifier of the Obfuscated Web \|#NHLHockeyFan	4.1
67.	(53)	Jane McGonigal The opposite of play isn't work. It's depression. Get my NYT bestsellers SUPERBETTER and REALITY IS BROKEN! (powered by the science of games) https://t.co/lfF5lsMrER	3.8
68=	(32)	Szymon Machajewski GVSU. Game On.	3.4
68=	(86)	Marco Vallarino Journalist, writer, game designer: I work with Gamification, play with Interactive Fiction and viceversa	3.4
70.	(42)	Pedro Crespo "The idea is to die young as late as possible"	3.4
71.	(66)	Jussi Mori #UserAdoption #JediMaster Office Apps & Services MVP, Serial Entrepreneur, Hacker of health and growth, Gamer, SciFi and Fantasy Geek. Knight in the Web 3.0	3.3
72.	(67)	Sebastian Deterding Empirical philosopher and deliberate designer of playful & gameful things. Professor @UniOfYork. Associate @whatsthehubbub. Co-editor of @gamefulworld.	3.1
73.	(44)	Helen Routledge Serious Games Designer, Author, Blogger and Psychologist, Gamification	3.0
74.	(122)	Justin Matthew Social Media Pioneer. Fiverr Top Seller 2012 Kred Influencer 2015 Klout top 5 worldwide . Featured in Frobes, Huff Post, Busines.com & much more.	2.9
75.	(87)	Rich Wallace father of crazy twins. gamer, #ux believer and #gamification geek.	2.8

76.	(78)	Darryn VDB Crafting Purposeful Play - and making the learning count	2.4
77.	(54)	Antonio Segovia Gamifier & Designer at Bitoon Games	2.3
78.	(102)	Isidro Rodrigo Serious Gamer + HRer + Lifelong Learner + Shiny Happy People Searcher + Other Undiscovered Things = That's me!	2.3
79=	(83)	Jorge Simoes Research on e-learning, social networks, game-based learning and gamification.	2.2
79=	(108)	Mathias Vermeulen Really cool stuff in L&D with #WinstonWolfe - #ProfessionalAmateur - Co-founder of @DutchDillonVOF - Organizer of #LearningTechDay - Fan of Seattle #Seahawks!	2.2
81.	(60)	Michelle Katics BankersLab Bringing gamified learning to the banking industry.	2.1
82.	(91)	Juan Fernández Galera Life is a game...play it. Diseñador de experiencias y escribiendo en @EscueladeXP #gamification #gamedesign #education	1.9
83.	(128)	Ruth S. Contreras Researcher/Designer/Lecturer ★GAMES★ UX-UI,Technology+Learning,Game Based Learning,Gamification, Serious games,Communication #H2020 projects, @WIGJ	1.9
84.	(70)	Gerson Bruno Forgiarini De Quadros Professor and Gamification Researcher from Brazil.- Universidade Católica de Pelotas.	1.8
85=	(109)	JesseSchell I am a game designer.	1.7
85=	(52)	Victor Manrique www.epicwinblog.net	1.7
85=	(64)	Javier Espinosa Slow education.	1.7
88.	(105)	Gamifier Gamifier and speaker. Make our environment more FUN by gamification. Take fun seriously! Check https://t.co/y8VOWtDuDP for more info. #gamification	1.7
89=	(72)	Hanan Gazit Founder @julootGG Gaming+ Gameful UX Design & Metaverse Expert, Startups & Enterprise Advisor, Mentor, Keynote Speaker. \| Tweets are my own.	1.7
89=	(91)	Juliette Denny Founder and MD of @growthengineer, an award winning learning technologies company. #Gamification #LearningGames #SocialLearning #LoveLearning	1.7
91.	(114)	Zac Fitz-Walter Old twitter username, find me at @zacfitzwalter for all my latest nerdy updates.	1.5
92.	(76)	Tim Gorree Founder, Digistars	1.5
93.	(102)	Nicole Lazzaro I make games and technology fun.	1.4
94.	(94)	Mike Finney Can do! I am living a Yes Attitude while sharing a smile with the people I meet. Just like the Agile Manifesto says: People First. I am Mike Finney; I apply Gamification to add color where the worl...	1.4
95=	(83)	Michael Meder Researcher at @DAI_Labor @TUBerlin, Head of @CCIRML (Competence Center #InformationRetrieval and #MachineLearning) #ai #nlp #chatbot #gamification	1.4
95=	(new)	Evgeni Kouris Artist, entrepreneur and gamification expert. Founder of Gamewheel - SaaS platform helping enterprises to effectively communicate with power of gamification and mobile AR/VR.	1.4
97.	(new)	John Turner John Turner wants to live in a world where work can be engaging and fun. Connect on Linkedin @ https://t.co/DCNq2Ribhg	1.3
98=	(98)	Aitor Barbosa Consultor de gamificación y serious games en Imagames y organizador de los @Gamificationjam	1.2
98=	(87)	John Adewole CEO IFB Gaming. Director of Learning at Hubert Ogunde School.	1.2
98=	(new)	Gaute Kokkvoll On a mission to make work play! Gamification Consultant - Kokkvoll Consult	1.2