Ryan Gottfredson

Ryan Gottfredson

Ph.D.CA, US
Ryan Gottfredson, Ph.D. is a cutting-edge leadership development consultant, author, speaker, and researcher. Ryan is the Wall Street Journal and USA Today best-selling author of "Success Mindsets."

Ryan Gottfredson, Ph.D. is a cutting-edge mindset author, researcher, and consultant. He helps improve organizations, leaders, teams, and employees by improving their mindsets. Ryan is the Wall Street Journal and USA Today best-selling author of "Success Mindsets: The Key to Unlocking Greater Success in Your Life, Work, & Leadership" (Morgan James Publishers). He is also a leadership professor at the Mihaylo College of Business and Economics at California State University-Fullerton. He holds a Ph.D. in Organizational Behavior and Human Resources from Indiana University, and a B.A. from Brigham Young University. As a consultant, he works with organizations to develop their leaders and improve their culture (collective mindsets). He has worked with top leadership teams at CVS Health (top 130 leaders), Deutsche Telekom (500+ of their top 2,000 leaders), and a couple dozen other organizations. As a respected authority and researcher on topics related to leadership, management, and organizational behavior, Ryan has published over 17 articles across a variety of journals including: Leadership Quarterly, Journal of Management, Journal of Organizational Behavior, Business Horizons, Journal of Leadership and Organizational Studies, and Journal of Leadership Studies. His research has been cited over 2,000 times since 2014. Connect with Ryan at https://www.ryangottfredson.com/.

Ryan Gottfredson, Ph.D. is a cutting-edge mindset author, researcher, and consultant. He helps improve organizations, leaders, teams, and employees by improving their mindsets. Ryan is the Wall Street Journal and USA Today best-selling author of "Success Mindsets: The Key to Unlocking Greater Success in Your Life, Work, & Leadership" (Morgan James Publishers). He is also a leadership professor at the Mihaylo College of Business and Economics at California State University-Fullerton. He holds a Ph.D. in Organizational Behavior and Human Resources from Indiana University, and a B.A. from Brigham Young University. As a consultant, he works with organizations to develop their leaders and improve their culture (collective mindsets). He has worked with top leadership teams at CVS Health (top 130 leaders), Deutsche Telekom (500+ of their top 2,000 leaders), and a couple dozen other organizations. As a respected authority and researcher on topics related to leadership, management, and organizational behavior, Ryan has published over 17 articles across a variety of journals including: Leadership Quarterly, Journal of Management, Journal of Organizational Behavior, Business Horizons, Journal of Leadership and Organizational Studies, and Journal of Leadership Studies. His research has been cited over 2,000 times since 2014. Connect with Ryan at https://www.ryangottfredson.com/.

Leader Mindsets: The Key to Unlocking Effective Leadership

What makes the difference between an effective leader and a dysfunctional leader? The answer lies in an individual attribute that most leaders and leadership developers overlook: their mindsets. For decades, researchers have found that mindsets are foundational to and drive how individuals think, learn, and behave. Despite their foundational influence, few in organizations ever talk about or focus on mindsets. In this presentation, Dr. Ryan Gottfredson will help participants awaken their...
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Mindsets: The Key to Enhancing Your Success

How does one go from one's current level of success to a higher level of success? From doing one's current best to doing even better? Most professional success programs focus on improving individuals' behaviors and skills. While these can be helpful, the latest psychological research suggests that such a focus is short-sighted. If professionals want to reach new levels of success, they first need to improve how they see and interpret their world. Stated differently, they need to improve and...
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The Key to Being Future Ready: Mindsets

When you consider the leaders and organizations that are going to be successful 5, 10, 20 years from now, what characteristics do they share? The shortlist includes being change-willing, opportunistic, tech-savvy, and agile. Acknowledging this, a fundamental question becomes: how do we develop these characteristics personally and organizationally now to ensure our future success? The answer comes down to the leaders' and organizations' mindsets. Unfortunately, only 5% of leaders currently...
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The Neuroscience Behind Effective Leadership Development

Leadership training is a $366 billion global industry. Despite that, 75% of organizations say their leadership development programs are not very effective. A primary reason for the lack of development effectiveness is because those who design these programs do not fully understand the neuroscience behind how leaders operate. As a result, leadership development programs emphasize topics and ideas that are limited in their development potential. In this presentation, we will dive into the...
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Become a More Emotionally Intelligent Leader

The most effective leaders are emotionally intelligent. In fact, emotional intelligence (EQ) has been found to be four times more important for business performance than cognitive intelligence. But unfortunately, EQ has been shown to decrease as individuals move up the corporate ladder from middle-manager. Given EQ's vital importance and the fact that those who may need it most may be in short supply, Ryan Gottfredson has developed a workshop to dramatically enhance your EQ. Using a personal...
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Creating a Winning Mindset

Often, the primary factor that holds people back from greater success in their lives, work, and leadership is self-limiting beliefs. These self-limiting beliefs are rooted in our mindsets. In this workshop, we will explore the mindsets that will allow us to overcome our self-limiting beliefs to obtain greater personal and professional success. In the process, you will enhance your mindfulness and be empowered to break through your self-limiting beliefs to create a brighter future.
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