Ryan Gottfredson, Ph.D. is a leadership transformation expert, consultant, keynote speaker, and best-selling author who helps leaders shift into a higher operating gear so they can navigate complexity, pressure, and constant change with greater clarity, capacity, and impact.
Ryan Gottfredson, Ph.D. is a leadership transformation expert, consultant, keynote speaker, and best-selling author who helps leaders shift into a higher operating gear so they can navigate complexity, pressure, and constant change with greater clarity, capacity, and impact. As the Wall Street Journal and USA Today best-selling author of Success Mindsets, The Elevated Leader, and Becoming Better, Ryan has become a trusted voice on vertical development, mindsets, and the internal operating systems that shape leadership effectiveness.
Ryan has worked with leadership teams at organizations such as CVS Health, Deutsche Telekom, and Experian, helping them elevate how they think, lead, and perform. Backed by dozens of published journal articles and practitioner pieces in outlets such as Leadership Quarterly, Journal of Management, Journal of Organizational Behavior, Harvard Business Review, CEOWorld, and TD Magazine, Ryan brings a rare blend of rigorous research, practical frameworks, and engaging delivery.
His keynote, workshops, and programs on 6th Gear Leadership equips audiences to understand why many leaders become bottlenecks under pressure and what it takes to shift into a more effective, agile, future-ready way of leading—one marked by greater capacity, traction, vitality, and long-term impact.
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.”
“Ryan has been engaged over the past two years to work with our leadership team and has made outstanding contributions, resulting brilliant outcomes. His input has been important, as we crossed through a critical cultural change, aiming to open mindsets and to define necessary improvements for the team and business. Ryan guided our leadership team through this period with enthusiasm and confidence. I have a lot of respect for his work and dedication.”
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