Ryan Gottfredson, Ph.D. is a mental success coach and cutting-edge leadership consultant, author, trainer, and researcher. He helps improve organizations, leaders, teams, and employees by improving their mindsets. Ryan is currently a leadership and management professor at the Mihaylo College of Business and Economics at California State University-Fullerton (CSUF). He holds a Ph.D. in Organizational Behavior and Human Resources from Indiana University, and a B.A. from Brigham Young University.
Ryan is the author of “Success Mindsets: The Key to Unlocking Greater Success in Your Life, Work, & Leadership.” (Morgan James Publishing)
- How do we tap into the “being” element of leadership?
- different types of mindset:
- Fixed vs. Growth mindset
- Open vs. closed mindset
- Prevention vs. promotion mindset
- Inward vs. outward
- Continuum of positive and negative.
- The more we are towards the positive, the better we interact with our environment.
- Innate beliefs about our ability to change affect how we interact with the world.
- With a fixed mindset, we internalize failure as though it means we are a failure.
- What kinds of interventions can help improve our mindset?
- Engage in interventions to promote growth mindset but if the culture doesn’t support it, there’s no point.
- How Jethro and Ryan each reacted when doing poorly in a class in their freshman year of college.
- Our mindsets are foundational to everything we do. They shape how we see the world, and how we operate in the world.
- Assess teacher’s mindset across the school and determine what our collective mindsets are across the school and what does that teach our students.
- How a school changed their growth mindsets.
- We take on the mindsets of our collective culture.
- When people have a fixed mindset they focus on looking good.
- When we are emphasizing grades and not learning and growing, we are emphasizing a fixed mindset.
- Fixed vs. Growth mindset
- 90% of our thinking feeling acting is driven subconsciously. What drives that? Our mindsets.
- Study about when kids faced difficult questions.
- When we don’t believe we can improve, and we fail, we feel that we are failures.
- Growth mindset - when we have that belief that we can change, we see growth as an opportunity to learn.
- 50/50 growth vs. fixed
- Intervention for growth mindsets.