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Ryan Gottfredson, PhD

Leadership Professor and Consultant

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Ryan Gottfredson, PhD, 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. A global authority on vertical leadership development, he helps leaders and organizations achieve transformational growth by focusing on the Being Side of leadership. He has worked with top teams at CVS Health, Deutsche Telekom, Experian, Kaiser Permanente, and the Federal Reserve Bank.Gottfredson is also a leadership professor at the College of Business and Economics at California State University-Fullerton.

Ryan Gottfredson, PhD, 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. A global authority on vertical leadership development, he helps leaders and organizations achieve transformational growth by focusing on the Being Side of leadership. He has worked with top teams at CVS Health, Deutsche Telekom, Experian, Kaiser Permanente, and the Federal Reserve Bank.Gottfredson is also a leadership professor at the College of Business and Economics at California State University-Fullerton.

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