Ryan Gottfredson, Ph.D. is a cutting-edge leadership development author, researcher, and consultant. He helps organizations vertically develop their leaders primarily through a focus on mindsets.
Ryan Gottfredson, Ph.D. is the Wall Street Journal and USA Today bestselling author of Success Mindsets, The Elevated Leader, and Becoming Better: The Groundbreaking Science of Personal Transformation. He is a global authority on vertical leadership development, helping leaders and organizations unlock transformational—not just incremental—growth by focusing on the Being Side of leadership: the mindsets, mental models, and internaloperating system that shape behavior.
Knowing that 85% of leaders operate at only a moderate level of sophistication, Ryan helps senior leaders elevate to higher levels of sophistication. Through his consulting company, Ryan Gottfredson LLC, he has partnered with organizations such as CVS Health, Deutsche Telekom, Experian, Kaiser Permanente, and the Federal Reserve Bank to drive transformation across their leadership ranks. His research-backed approach has also been used to develop mid-level managers and executives across industries worldwide.
Ryan is also a professor of leadership at California State University–Fullerton. His research on leadership and organizational behavior has been published in top journals, including Leadership Quarterly and the Journal of Management, and has been cited more than 4,900 times since 2020.
Becoming Better
Transformational growth from the deeper level of your Being Side.
The Elevated Leader
Level up your leadership through vertical development.
Success Mindsets
Your keys to unlocking greater success in life, work, and leadership.
Consulting
Help you transformationally elevate your leaders to take your organization to the next level.
Workshops
Help your leaders and employees awaken to their vertical altitude and the quality of their mindsets.
Speaking
Elevate your audience through a focus on vertical development and/or mindsets.
Vertical Development Assessment
Developmental psychologists have identified three adult development stages. This assessment will help you identify the adult development stage that you primarily operate from: Mind 1.0, Mind 2.0, or Mind 3.0.
Vertical Development Roadmap
A comprehensive step-by-step guide to employing vertical development so that you can transformationally Become Better.
Digital Vertical Development Coach
A microlearning tool run on Qstream that has been developed to literally rewire your brain and vertically develop. Free with The Elevated Leader.
“The training and content was fantastic and applicable. Ryan was great with his delivery that resulted in meaningful personal and professional reflection and discussions. I look forward to future sessions.”
“Great seminar that truly helps change the perspective on leadership behavior. The simplicity of the material makes it easy to understand how improvement is possible for everyone.”
“This was an eye-opener for me and I’m glad I got to learn these 4 mindsets. I will definitely revisit these mindsets and begin to apply them in my everyday life, not only in my leadership positions.”
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