Ryan Gottfredson, PhD, is a cutting-edge leadership development author, researcher, and consultant. He loves helping organizations vertically develop their leaders, primarily through a focus on mindsets. Ryan is the Wall Street Journal and USA Today best-selling author of Success Mindsets: The Key to Unlocking Greater Success in Your Life, Work, & Leadership; The Elevated Leader: Level Up Your Leadership Through Vertical Development; and now, Becoming Better: The Groundbreaking Science of Personal Transformation. He is also a leadership professor at the College of Business and Economics at California State University, Fullerton.