Maggie Olson Named the #1 LinkedIn Voice Globally for Corporate Learning & Development

We have some pretty incredible news to share. Nova founder Maggie Olson has been ranked the #1 LinkedIn voice globally for Corporate Learning & Development by Favikon.

Favikon’s rankings look beyond follower count to evaluate the influence and authority creators have built within their space. For Maggie, this recognition reflects years of sharing her expertise, building thought leadership, and helping shape the conversation around the Chief of Staff profession and strategic leadership.

Building a voice around work that matters

Maggie has never approached LinkedIn with the goal of collecting the largest possible audience. She started sharing because she had something to say about the Chief of Staff profession. 

She had experience from inside the role. She had strong opinions about how Chiefs of Staff should be trained and supported. She saw gaps in the way companies understood the position and in the resources available to the people stepping into it. 

So she started talking about them. 

Over time, those ideas became hundreds of posts about the realities of being a Chief of Staff, strategic leadership, career growth, executive partnership, the C-Suite, and the work happening behind the scenes inside organizations. The audience grew alongside it. 

Today, more than 69,000 people follow Maggie on LinkedIn. That audience includes Chiefs of Staff, Executive Assistants, strategic operators, executives, founders, and professionals trying to become more effective and influential inside their organizations. 

The opportunities created through LinkedIn have become a meaningful part of Nova's growth. But the part Maggie is most proud of is the community behind those numbers: 

• The people who come back every day to read 

• The conversations happening in the comments 

• The person who sends a post to their executive and says, "This is what I've been trying to explain!” 

• The EA who sees a new possibility for their career 

• The new Chief of Staff who realizes someone else understands exactly what they're navigating 

• The experienced operator who finally has language for something they've been doing intuitively for years 

That has always been the point.

Thought leadership is built by having something worth contributing

There is a lot of conversation about "building a personal brand" right now and Maggie's experience has given us a particular perspective on what that actually means. 

A strong personal brand comes from knowing your subject deeply enough to contribute something useful to the conversation. Before founding Nova, Maggie served as the first Chief of Staff to a president at T-Mobile and built the Chief of Staff system supporting a seven-person internal team and more than 5,000 employees. 

She went on to build Nova around a problem she understood firsthand: talented strategic operators are routinely expected to perform in incredibly complex roles without the formal training, frameworks, or support to do them well. That insight became the foundation of Nova. 

It also became the foundation of Maggie's voice online. She shares frameworks because she uses frameworks. She writes about the challenges Chiefs of Staff face because she has faced them. She can take a complicated, ambiguous part of the role and make it understandable because she has spent years studying, teaching, and refining this work. 

The LinkedIn audience came from that depth of expertise, paired with a willingness to share it consistently. Being named the #1 voice globally for Corporate Learning & Development feels like meaningful recognition of that work.

You don't need to be an "influencer" to become known for your expertise

This is where Maggie's experience becomes especially relevant for the Nova community. Chiefs of Staff and strategic operators spend a lot of their careers behind the scenes. That's part of the job. 

You help someone else lead more effectively. You make the meeting better. You solve the problem before it becomes visible. You connect dots other people haven't connected yet. You create clarity around something messy. You help the organization move. 

A lot of your best work may happen without your name attached to it. That can make visibility feel unfamiliar. But there is real value in learning how to communicate what you know. 

Your professional reputation is being built whether you're actively shaping it or not. LinkedIn gives you an opportunity to give people a clearer picture of how you think, what you know, what you care about, and where you have something meaningful to contribute. 

You don't need hundreds of thousands of followers. You need a point of view. You need enough experience and curiosity to have something useful to say. And you need the confidence to say it. 

That's a skill Maggie has spent years developing. Now she's teaching it. 

Learn LinkedIn brand building directly from Maggie

Maggie created Nova's LinkedIn Brand Building Workshop + 10-Day Posting Challenge to share the system she uses to turn expertise into content and content into a professional brand. 

This is the system behind a LinkedIn presence that has grown to more than 68,000 followers and now earned Maggie recognition as the #1 LinkedIn voice globally for Corporate Learning & Development.

Inside the workshop, Maggie walks through how she thinks about content, how she develops ideas, how she writes, what she's learned from her highest-performing posts, and the rules she's developed after years of publishing consistently. 

You'll get her content pillars, writing rules, hooks, post formats, templates, examples, profile guidance, and the process she uses to turn what she knows into content people actually want to read. 

Then you'll put it into practice through the 10-Day Posting Challenge. 

Each day, you'll receive a posting prompt, hook options, templates, and examples from Maggie's own content to help you build the habit and find your own voice. 

By the end, you'll have 10 posts published on your own profile and a system you can continue using long after the challenge ends. 

Being recognized as the #1 LinkedIn voice globally for Corporate Learning & Development is a significant milestone for Maggie and for Nova. 

It reflects years of building expertise, teaching, sharing ideas, and contributing to conversations about the Chief of Staff role, strategic leadership, career development, and the future of this profession. It also reinforces something we believe deeply at Nova: expertise becomes more powerful when you know how to communicate it. 

We’re incredibly proud to see that work recognized on a global scale, and grateful to everyone who has read, commented, shared, followed, or joined the conversation along the way. 

Congratulations, Maggie, on being named the #1 LinkedIn voice globally for Corporate Learning & Development. A very big milestone, and a very exciting moment for Nova.