Ryan never grew up dreaming of becoming an entrepreneur. Naturally, that’s why he has spent the last 25 years building and leading his own courageous businesses. Today, Ryan finds himself on the hips of Fortune 500 leaders who look to nudge their companies to be more brave. He deeply cares to help teams that might be stuck, scared, stale or safe.

Ryan has spoken and consulted all over the globe to C Suite, teams and professional services audiences on the need for courageous change including at charity: water, Deloitte, Discover Card, Google, Kelloggs, Kraft Heinz, Logitech, Procter & Gamble and Snapchat, amongst many others. Ryan takes great pride in remaining a practitioner, speaker and authority on the topic. He believes the only way to install courage in a company is to first instill courage in its leaders. His methods for unlocking change inside organizations have been featured in Entrepreneur, Fast Company, Inc and Forbes.

Ryan's Best-Selling book, Return On Courage: a business playbook for courageous change, was a 1000 day listening lap studying leaders at Amazon Alexa, B Corporation, Dominos, Harvard, Live Nation, Method Soap and Virgin Galactic. Ryan also used the framework shared in his book to launch has his own “Courage Brand” called Sock Problems — a company that “socks” problems in the world with altruistic socks. If you wanted to Sock Cancer, Sock Climate Change or Sock Inequality, Ryan has a pair for you.