Ryan Gottfredson, Ph.D., is the author of the Wall Street Journal Best-Seller Success Mindsets: Your Keys to Unlocking Greater Success in Your Life, Work & Leadership. He has developed the most comprehensive and research-backed mindset framework to date and uses it to help organizations, leaders and people unlock greater success, emotional intelligence, agility and future-readiness.
Ryan’s informative and engaging presentations are based upon decades of academic research, including his latest cutting-edge research featured in Leadership Quarterly and Journal of Organizational Behavior as well as experiences working with dozens of organizations, including the top 100 executives at CVS Health, the top 500 executives at Deutsche Telekom and leaders at other companies including Mondelez, American Airlines, Paylocity, Volcom and CertaPro Painters.
Ryan is one of the most recognized professors at California State University-Fullerton’s Mihaylo College of Business and Economics, the fourth largest business school in the country, where he teaches and conducts research with MBA’s and upper-division undergraduates on topics related to leadership and organizational behavior.
Featured Topics:
Leader Mindsets: The Key to Unlocking Effective Leadership
Effective and dysfunctional leaders are both trying their best. The difference lies in the quality of their mindsets. In this presentation, Ryan will help leaders become more of the hero and less of the villain.
Mindsets: The Key to Enhancing Your Success
Most develop presentations focus on doing things better. Fewer focus on thinking better. Even fewer focus on what drives both our thinking and behavior: mindsets. This session helps leaders and individuals improve starting at their most foundational level.
Mindsets: The Key to Creating a More Agile Team and Organization
Are you facing increased competition, shortened product life cycles, and rapidly changing customer needs and interests? Welcome to the new reality. Enhancing agility is a must, and it is only done through the development of agile mindsets.
Mindsets: The Key to Being Future-Ready
Does your organization have the characteristics that will allow it to be successful 5, 10 or 20 years from now? Such characteristics include being change willing, opportunistic, tech-savvy, and agile. Developing more of these characteristics requires enhancing leaders’ and employees’ mindsets. Ryan wants to help you make these improvements.
The Neuroscience Behind Effective Leadership Development
Leadership training is a $366 billion global industry. Yet, 75% of organizations say their leadership development programs are not very effective. Where are we going wrong? We are overlooking the neuroscience behind how leaders operate. Ryan will help you understand and unlock this neuroscience to more effectively develop your leaders.