Ryan is currently an Associate Professor and Associate Director in the MS in Learning and Organizational Change program at Northwestern University.

He is the author of Speaking Up at Work: Leading Change as an Independent Thinker and Organizational Learning and Performance: The Science and Practice of Building a Learning Culture.

Over the last 20 years, Ryan has researched, taught, and published in the areas of learning and new executives, decision-making, innovation, and organizational culture. At Northwestern, Ryan teaches classes on learning and development, design thinking, cognitive design, and people analytics. He also leads the Organizational Effectiveness Certificate.

Before coming to Northwestern University, Ryan taught organizational behavior as an Assistant Professor at Hiram College. He also worked at Denison Consulting — a culture and leadership assessment firm in Ann Arbor, Michigan. He received a B.A. from Dartmouth College, an Ed.M. from Harvard University, and a Ph.D. from the University of Michigan.

He resides in Evanston, IL and has three kids (two boys and a daughter) that have him continuously re-learning the experience of growing up.

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