About Us

Leadership Consultant & Challenge Course Director

Ryan brings over 20 years of experience facilitating and coaching high level organizations and leaders from around the world.  He believes nothing is real until it is experienced and has spent his leadership development career designing and delivering programs that help bring content to life through purposeful experiences. 

Whether it is Brené Brown’s Dare to Lead™, a program on diversity in the workplace, or how to become a more effective leader through MBTI, or a virtual experiencial program on collaboration and trust, Ryan brings a calm yet energetic approach to learning that clients appreciate and enjoy.  His work with Dare to Lead™ pushes the boundaries and gives clients a simple, actionable, and powerful way to live out the work. His unique perspective, experiences, and commitment to learning by doing, guides his engaging and interactive facilitation.

He brings over two decades of experience facilitating experiencial and developmental programs focused around leadership, communication, trust and problem solving in a variety of environments from guiding clients through the cliffs and rivers of Yosemite, to challenge courses, to boardrooms and conference centers. His expertise is creating and utilizing unconventional settings to facilitate opportunities for useful and meaningful change that build trust from within the person and with others. He creates the space for people to do more than they’ve dared to imagine and challenges them to think differently, lead differently and see themselves differently all while reminding them of what is possible once they get out of their own way.

Ryan is dedicated to providing exceptional client service, especially in the virtual space. He understands that virtual experiences must be engaging and interactive to drive meaningful conversations, connections, and collaboration. Recently, Ryan has focused on designing and delivering virtual experiences that are far from the average stale and boring Zoom call. He skillfully conceives and designs these experiences to be engaging and kinesthetic, ensuring that his clients achieve their outcomes and objectives. Ryan is commitment to providing exceptional client services ensures that his clients are beyond satisfied with his work and continue to seek his expertise in the future.

Past Experience
Ryan has long history of working in both the U.S and in Europe with executives and professionals from industries like pharma, banking, engineering, military, all the way to media networks. A few high-level client organization examples include Unum, Bechtel, ESPN,Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth, IBEAR at USC, ExxonMobil, Schneider Electric, Goodyear, Purina, Leidos, McDermott, Smiths, Bank of America, Edwards Jones, Kite Pharma, EA Sports, Grundfos, Columbia Bank, Abbvie, PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC), and Astellas Pharma.

Ryan has a BA in Finance and received his master’s in Experiential Education from California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo (Calpoly), is accredited by the International Coaching Federation (ICF), is a certified Myers Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) trainer and is Dare to Lead™ trained. His past research and writing have focused on the role risk plays in cohesion and teamwork.