If my LinkedIn Learner Lounge isn’t enough for you(!), follow the smartypants below for plenty more insights about how best to use LinkedIn.
Many of the following are part of the Espresso+ community, as indicated by 
after their name.
Each person can help you professionally with some aspect of your LinkedIn presence.
- 🇬🇧 Gus Bhandal
- 🇬🇧 Louise Brogan
- 🇬🇧 Sarah Burgess
- 🇬🇧 Tracey Burnett
- 🇬🇧 Clare Carroll
- 🇬🇧 Nigel Cliffe
- 🇬🇧 Greg Cooper
- 🇬🇧 Clare Ferguson
- 🇬🇧 Debbie Ford
- 🇬🇧 Melanie Goodman
- 🇬🇧 Keith Grover
- 🇬🇧 Niraj Kapur
- 🇬🇧 Craig Langley
- 🇬🇧 Mac Laubscher
- 🇬🇧 Ashley Leeds
- 🇬🇧 Eleanor Mitchiner
- 🇬🇧 Ella Orr
- 🇬🇧 David Petherick
- 🇬🇧 Sam Rathling
- 🇬🇧 Tony Restell
- 🇬🇧 Laura Taylor
- 🇬🇧 Lea Turner
- 🇬🇧 Mark Williams
- 🇮🇪 Aoife Noone
- 🇺🇸 Sandra Clark
- 🇺🇸 Sid Clark
- 🇺🇸 Liam Darmody
- 🇺🇸 Andy Foote
- 🇺🇸 Virginia Franco
- 🇺🇸 Beth Granger
- 🇺🇸 Judi Hays
- 🇺🇸 Viveca Hess
- 🇺🇸 Kenneth Lang
- 🇺🇸 Sandra Long
- 🇺🇸 Brenda Meller
- 🇺🇸 Nancy Myrland
- 🇺🇸 Angela Pitter
- 🇺🇸 Annette Richmond
- 🇺🇸 Deanna Russo
- 🇺🇸 Rachel Simon
- 🇺🇸 Crystal Thies
- 🇺🇸 Kevin D Turner
- 🇺🇸 Gillian Whitney
- 🇺🇸 DB Wienke
- 🇺🇸 Jared Wiese
- 🇺🇸 AJ Wilcox
- 🇺🇸 Lynne Williams
- 🇺🇸 Mary Wu
- 🇺🇸 Jeff Young
- 🇦🇺 Anna McAfee
- 🇦🇺 Jo Saunders
- 🇦🇺 Karen Tisdell
- 🇦🇺 Michelle J Raymond
- 🇦🇺 Wanita Zoghby-Fourie
- 🇧🇪 Mic Adam
- 🇧🇪 Tiina Jarvet
- 🇨🇦 Leanne Calderwood
- 🇨🇦 Ilia Francis
- 🇨🇦 Bruce Johnston
- 🇩🇰 Tonny Mikkelsen
- 🇩🇪 Britta Behrens
- 🇩🇪 Lina Lotta Landgraf
- 🇩🇪 Kathrin Wischnath
- 🇮🇱 Eli Igra Serfaty
- 🇮🇹 Leonardo Bellini
- 🇳🇱 Richard van der Blom
- 🇳🇱 Marjolijn Cohen
- 🇳🇱 Guy Strijbosch
- 🇳🇿 Lynnaire Johnston
- 🇿🇦 Este Pretorius
- 🇨🇭 Sebestian Ong
🇬🇧 Gus Bhandal.
- Espresso+ founder member
Gus is a social media trainer, content creator and marketing strategist.
An all-round nice guy with a distinctive personal brand and good taste in sports entertainment.
🇬🇧 Louise Brogan.
- Espresso+ member
Louise is a LinkedIn marketer specialising in professional services.
She runs her own podcast, LinkedIn with Louise and has her own YouTube channel.
🇬🇧 Sarah Burgess.
- Espresso+ founder member
Sarah is a career & LinkedIn coach and is a regular on LinkedIn Live video.
She kindly interviewed me in February 2022, just after I’d launched the Espresso+ community. Watch our chat
🇬🇧 Tracey Burnett.
- Espresso+ member
Tracey is a LinkedIn marketing strategist, and a mentor and trainer for teams, coaches and consultants.
🇬🇧 Clare Carroll.
Clare is known as the Content Angel and is a content marketing strategist, content creator and LinkedIn trainer.
She’s also one of my favourite accessibility advocates on the platform and an expert in all aspects of video repurposing.
🇬🇧 Nigel Cliffe.
- Espresso+ founder member
Nigel is based in West Yorkshire and is a well-respected LinkedIn trainer in the UK.
His linkedintraining.co.uk site is well worth a visit for the helpful set of tips in his video catalogue.
🇬🇧 Greg Cooper.
- LinkedIn Sales Navigator
Greg is based in Bristol and one of the most knowledgeable people I know on LinkedIn in the UK.
We’ve met in person and Greg was refreshingly open about his methods. A really helpful guy who’s well worth following.
🇬🇧 Clare Ferguson.
- Espresso+ founder member
- LinkedIn ads
Clare specialises in digital advertising on many platforms but is one of my go-to people for LinkedIn ads.
🇬🇧 Debbie Ford.
With more than 20 years of experience in marketing, communications and change management, Debbie is the SuperHelpful™️ social media coach and trainer with a special focus on LinkedIn.
🇬🇧 Melanie Goodman.
- Espresso+ member
Melanie is a former lawyer based between the UK and Switzerland.
Check out her Encyclopedia of LinkedIn Hashtags 2022.
Also, see her excellent free tool, the LinkedIn Profile Photo Frame Generator.
You can see an example of the output in this Espresso+ post.
🇬🇧 Keith Grover.
- Espresso+ member
As well as being a copywriter for more than 30 years, Keith offers LinkedIn training and clinics for business owners and teams.
🇬🇧 Niraj Kapur.
- Espresso+ member
Niraj was a LinkedIn Top Voice in Sales in 2021 and has extensive experience in helping people sell ethically and organically online as a LinkedIn business coach.
As well as being a rock drummer(!), he’s written a couple of books, including Everybody Works In Sales. A true gent.
🇬🇧 Craig Langley.
- Espresso+ member
- LinkedIn Sales Navigator
Craig is a veteran of the automotive and electronics industry but also has a special interest in both the technical side of LinkedIn as well as in using Sales Navigator to find and nurture leads.
🇬🇧 Mac Laubscher.
- Espresso+ founder member
- LinkedIn Sales Navigator
Mac offers 1-to-1 coaching, group programmes and a 12-week LinkedIn masterclass.
🇬🇧 Ashley Leeds.
- Espresso+ founder member
Ashley is known as the 15-minute guy and encourages people to attract more clients by spending only 15 minutes per day on LinkedIn.
He keeps the 15-minute vibe going with a regular LinkedIn Live video series that goes “behind the profile” with his guests.
🇬🇧 Eleanor Mitchiner.
- Espresso+ founder member
Eleanor is a marketing specialist who helps people use LinkedIn as a key part of developing a successful business strategy.
🇬🇧 Ella Orr.
- Espresso+ founder member
Ella is a personal branding and social media marketing consultant and speaker, with a special interest in regulated industries such as finance and law.
She’s able to help with LinkedIn, Instagram and TikTok.
A former teacher and a trusted friend 💜
🇬🇧 David Petherick.
David has a memorable personal brand that makes him come across as the “doctor” of LinkedIn. He runs online “surgeries” and helps people to improve their LinkedIn profiles.
🇬🇧 Sam Rathling.
Sam is a LinkedIn lead generation specialist who helps large corporate customers.
She wrote Linked Inbound: 8 Social Selling Strategies to Generate Leads on LinkedIn in 2019 and gave me a kind mention in it.
🇬🇧 Tony Restell.
- Espresso+ member
Tony is an expert social media marketer who runs Social Hire, which helps businesses with social selling and lead generation.
🇬🇧 Laura Taylor.
- Espresso+ founder member
Laura is a social media strategist who offers LinkedIn audit power hours and profile rewrites.
🇬🇧 Lea Turner.
Lea has a massive following built on her distinctive brand and willingness to share personal content and opinions.
Despite having 150K+ followers, Lea is approachable and down to earth. One of the few big names of LinkedIn who’s actually worth following.
Check out this LinkedIn Live replay featuring my chat with Lea, along with Bobby Umar and Andy Foote.
🇬🇧 Mark Williams.
- LinkedIn Sales Navigator
If I had to take just one person’s advice about LinkedIn, it would be Mark’s (and not just because he’s a Liverpool FC fan, though that helps).
Mark hosts Linkedinformed, my favourite LinkedIn podcast.
I was a guest on two occasions:
🇮🇪 Aoife Noone.
- Espresso+ member
Aoife used to work for Facebook and is a social media consultant and LinkedIn trainer with a specialism in financial services.
🇺🇸 Sandra Clark.
- Espresso+ founder member
Sandra is reassuringly calm and approachable.
She specialises in helping the “social media reluctant” to get better results from their efforts on LinkedIn.
🇺🇸 Sid Clark.
Sid is a former IT test engineer and English instructor who posts helpful LinkedIn tips via annotated screenshots.
He’s a nice guy who’s talented at writing clear explanations.
🇺🇸 Liam Darmody.
Liam is a LinkedIn brand strategist who worked for fast-growing companies for almost 20 years before going independent to help people build a brand on LinkedIn.
🇺🇸 Andy Foote.
Andy is a Brit based in the US. He loves to experiment and shares some of the best insights I’ve seen about the platform.
He’s the host of the Foote Notes podcast. I was a guest on episode 14.
🇺🇸 Virginia Franco.
- Espresso+ member
Virginia specialises in writing resumes and LinkedIn profiles for job seekers, and is the host of the Resume Storyteller podcast.
🇺🇸 Beth Granger.
- Espresso+ founder member
Beth is a highly respected and experienced LinkedIn consultant, and is always happy to share what she learns with other LinkedIn trainers around the world.
She’s one of a small number of people to have been invited to beta-test the LinkedIn audio feature, and was one of the first Espresso+ members in the United States.
🇺🇸 Judi Hays.
- Espresso+ founder member
Judi is a LinkedIn consultant, Forbes contributor and has written a book called Elevate, Expand, Engage (click for Amazon US page).
🇺🇸 Viveca Hess.
- Espresso+ founder member
Viveca specialises in helping lawyers to build their personal brand on LinkedIn. She’s also host of the Social Lawyer podcast.
🇺🇸 Kenneth Lang.
- Espresso+ founder member
Ken is one of the 2022 Top Job Search Experts to Follow on LinkedIn, and is a dedicated anti-automation advocate who wants LinkedIn to be a more human space.
🇺🇸 Sandra Long.
Sandra works on corporate LinkedIn rebranding and training as well as on B2B social selling.
She’s the author of LinkedIn for Personal Branding and Supercharge (click for Amazon US pages).
🇺🇸 Brenda Meller.
- Espresso+ member
Brenda is one of my favourite LinkedIn specialists in the US.
She’s a regular creator of LinkedIn Live videos and an expert in LinkedIn company pages.
Her book is called Social Media Pie.
Social Media Pie review on Amazon.
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Get the whole LinkedIn pie
I’ve been following Brenda’s LinkedIn tips for the past few years. I knew that when she produced a book, it would be a comprehensive look at how to build a LinkedIn profile and define a strategy for success on the world’s number one business networking platform. She’s achieved that with Social Media Pie.
Having published a business book myself, I know how much of an effort it is to create a piece of authority content like this. Well done, Brenda!
PS. Save me a slice of apple and cherry pie for when we eventually meet! 🍏🍒🥧
🇺🇸 Nancy Myrland.
- Espresso+ member
Nancy is a LinkedIn coach for lawyers, and a legal marketing and social media consultant.
🇺🇸 Angela Pitter.
- Espresso+ member
Angela is a digital marketing advisor and strategist, and a LinkedIn trainer and coach. She has a specialism in helping non-profits on LinkedIn.
See nonprofit.linkedin.com for more info and contact Angela if you have questions!