Change happens one conversation at a time
If you're looking to create meaningful visions for the future, drive organizational impact, foster compassionate and innovative cultures, build effective strategies, or strengthen collaboration, let’s talk about how to shape a better world together.
Gather round
In a world with an urgent need for compassion and understanding, our greatest offering is our presence and openness when we gather. I believe we can recover meaning in our lives by convening in ‘togetherness’ and having one important conversation. And then another.
Through coaching, team building, retreats, and process work, I help leaders and organizations navigate challenges related to uncertainty and the messiness of ‘humans working together’. I facilitate new thinking and create communities of trust and collaboration so that you can be more effective and impactful.
I am a thought leader, coach, healer, mapmaker, and friend who brings a breadth of understanding and sophistication so that we can create something new for a better world.
“Ryan has a capacity to deal with non-linear situations and realities. At ease in uncomfortable zones, he takes practical approaches while understanding the larger context. All of this makes me think of Ryan as someone who can be counted on – who is trustworthy in the fullest sense of the word.”
— JOHN RALSTON SAUL, WRITER, PHILOSOPHER, AND AUTHOR OF VOLTAIRE’S BASTARDS AND A FAIR COUNTRY
Functionally, whether I become an extension of your team, an advisor, or your muse, I see my role as creating conversations and experiences that are insightful and generative. By gaining perspective on an issue and developing the skills to address it, you establish a graceful responsiveness to the emergent issues you face. You become a better leader, team player, co-worker, ideas contributor, and so on. Teams become more collaborative and organizationally you are equipped to have more impact and success. And fun!
The form of the work always suits the needs of the problem we are solving; coaching and facilitation are just words to describe the insightful conversations that flow from good process. The work is disruptive, honest, and function-oriented — as much focused on what future is calling to us, as it is on how we get there (together). In short, the process is the product.
The Work
"We engaged Ryan over the course of a year for strategic planning and team-building that exceeded our expectations with respect to both process and outcomes. Culminating in a 60-person retreat, Ryan was exceptionally thoughtful in working with us and smoothly facilitated the event to maximize learning and engagement. His strategic insights and advice brought fresh perspectives and a renewed sense of direction. As a facilitator, he has a talent for recognizing and gently surfacing underlying tensions in group dynamics, and guiding constructive conversations that lead to meaningful resolution. We would not hesitate to work with him again."
— DR. JUSTINA RAY, PRESIDENT AND SENIOR SCIENTIST AT WILDLIFE CONSERVATION SOCIETY CANADA
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About Ryan
I bring a diverse skillset shaped by a wanderer’s journey—from wilderness guide and backcountry ranger to conservation planner, meditation and mental performance coach, and facilitator. I’m as comfortable with a chainsaw and paddle as I am with post-it notes and real conversation. Whether you are a c-suite executive, elite athlete, or organizational leader, I speak your dialect!
“It is a privilege to know Ryan and have him as a presence in my life and work. I cherish his perspective, which is reliably unique and transformative, and always casts my reality in an entirely new light. With Ryan I feel connected to that which will endure.”
— WES GEORGE, CHIEF OPERATING OFFICER, RECURSAL.AI