Roger L. Martin CM (born 4 August 1956) is the former Dean of the Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto from 1998 to 2013 and an author of several business books.

After he stepped down as dean of Rotman, he took up a leadership position at the Martin Prosperity Institute, where he will focus his research on the future of democratic capitalism.

[7] Martin is a regular columnist for Businessweek's Innovation and Design Channel,[8] the Washington Post’s On Leadership blog[9] and the Financial Times’ Judgement Call column.

[12] His latest book is A New Way to Think: Your Guide to Superior Managerial Effectiveness (Harvard Business Review Press, 2022) In 2019, Thinkers50 ranked him the second most influential management thinker in the world.

Martin argues that business leaders that master this mode of thinking have a unique ability to innovate and solve problems facing their company.

In 2004, Martin collaborated with then-Conservative Party leadership candidate Tony Clement on a proposal for a lifetime income tax to reform Canada's taxation system.

He proposes several suggestions including an alteration in the current executive compensation models, and a renewed strategic focus aimed at benefiting customers and the community.