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Ryan Leak
BiographyRyan Leak an best-selling author, esteemed executive coach, and a highly sought-after transformational speaker. With an incredible reach of over 50,000 people every month, Ryan's words have the power to transform lives. Each year, he dedicates his expertise to the growth of over 25,000 leaders, spanning the spectrum from Fortune 100 corporations to elite professional sports teams.
Ryan's remarkable journey was catapulted into the limelight when his viral Surprise Wedding story made headlines on prestigious shows like Good Morning America and the Today Show, along with numerous other media outlets. But that's just the beginning of his story.
Ryan is the creative mind behind the USA Today best-selling book, "Chasing Failure: How Falling Short Sets You Up for Success." This transformative work has guided countless individuals on a journey to turn setbacks into stepping stones toward success. His latest release, "Leveling Up: 12 Questions to Elevate Your Personal And Professional Development," has ascended to the ranks of Wall Street Journal Best Sellers list.
In addition to his professional accomplishments, Ryan is a loving husband to Amanda and involved father to Roman and Jaxson. Join the ranks of those who have already been inspired and transformed by Ryan Leak's empowering message.
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Featured Keynote ProgramsLeveling Up
When it comes to the energy we give to our careers, there are levels to it. Most people find themselves coasting and doing what they have to do to survive not realizing there’s a life they could live where they get to do everything and can actually thrive. Leveling Up is a keynote designed to help audiences have the life and career they’ve always wanted through the art of asking the right questions.
These are questions stemming from Ryan Leak’s Wall Street Journal Best-Selling book Leveling Up: 12 Questions to Elevate Your Personal and Professional Development. Some of those key questions are:
The Self-Awareness Question: What’s it like to be on the other side of me?
The Vision Question: What’s my definition of success?
The Team Player Question: What credit can I give away?
The Focus Question: What has the most of my attention?
You may not be responsible for the level you are at today, but you are responsible for the level you go to tomorrow.
SELF-LEADERSHIP
7 Tools to Help You Lead Yourself Better & Inspire Others
Have you ever wondered, “What’s it like for people to be led by me?” When someone is hired to be a leader in an organization, what often doesn’t come with the gig is a leader… for the leader. One of the biggest hurdles leaders face is not actually leading people but leading themselves. Most leaders are often given titles with very little vision. They’re often given expectations with very little direction. The old saying rings true. It’s lonely at the top. Leaders desperately need a go-to strategy and system they can rely on when they feel like they’ve got no one in their corner to guide them.
Through his consulting work, Ryan Leak has been guiding 15,000+ C-Suite leaders every year through 7 key steps toward better self-leadership that leads to better people and organizational leadership.
Key Takeaways
• What’s it like to follow me? (The Self-awareness Question)
• What credit can I give away? (The Team Player Question)
• What mistakes can I own? (The Humility Question)
• How can I get better? (The Self-improvement Question)
• Why am I doing it? (The Purpose Question)
• Who am I equipping for the future? (The Legacy/Succession Question)
• Who knows who I really am? (The Transparency Question)
CHASING FAILURE
What Our Goals Require Most is the Bravery to Fail
What would you do if you knew you could not fail? Chasing Failure is all about having a vision for a dream, a goal, a mission, and knowing that the road will be paved with failure, but still proceeding with conviction and passion. This is what sets those who succeed beyond measure, from those who simply exist. The fear of failure will keep you inside a box, stall innovation, and make sure you hesitate anytime you even think about taking a risk that could help you achieve goals beyond your wildest dreams. As leadership expert Ryan Leak shares, you don’t actually have to get over the fear. Just do it scared and take really good notes.
When you’re Chasing Failure, you’re either going to win or you’re going to learn. Hopefully, both will happen. Ryan shares the blueprint for success by giving you an approach to see what the predictable failures might be, so you can circumvent those more easily, or deal with them more effectively when they arise.
KEY TAKEAWAYS
• How chasing failure will take you further than chasing success.
• A roadmap to the discipline needed to succeed through failure.
• Understanding how to become today who you intend to be tomorrow.
How to Be The CEO of Your Own Development
One of the greatest mistakes someone can make in the 21st-century workplace is expecting someone else to be responsible for their professional and personal development. It’d be ideal if everyone had the opportunity to work under incredible leadership, but how often do we get ideal? What do you do when you don’t have a mentor to show you the way? You have to get good at self-leadership. In Ryan Leak’s Keynote, How to Be The CEO of Your Own Development, he outlines eight questions that help every person lead themselves and own their growth. You may not be the CEO of the company, but you can be the CEO of your own development.
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Featured Books
Leveling Up: 12 Questions to Elevate Your Personal and Professional Development
by Ryan Leak
Experience explosive growth and success in your career and personal life by taking ownership of your personal development and understanding you don't need to know all the answers—but you do need to ask the right questions.
Whether you're a leader of ten, a hundred, or many more, there's no one more important to lead than yourself. If you're not leading yourself, why would anyone else want to follow you? Ryan Leak speaks to thousands of leaders every year, and he has learned that the most successful people have taken ownership of their own development—and in order to realize your potential, you need to fully understand yourself.
Being a great leader is not about having all the answers but asking the right questions—and that starts with careful introspection and inviting others to tell you what they see in you.Leveling Uphelps you focus on the person you're becoming and think about the goals you want to accomplish. Some of the twelve strategic questions in this book include:
- What is it like to be around me? (The Self-Awareness Question)
- What credit can I give away? (The Team Player Question)
- Who knows who I really am? (The Transparency Question)
- What's my definition of success? (The Vision Question)
- Do I have to do it all? (The Rest Question)
- Am I enjoying it? (The Fun Question)
Leadership theory and business practices are important to study, but nothing is better than discovering the answers that will reveal who you are at your core, where you want to go in your career and life in general, and how you can influence and impact those around you.
Chasing Failure
by Ryan Leak
Now available in trade paper! A USA TODAY Bestseller! Chasing Failure will help you remove every excuse for not pursuing the life you want to live, and that failure may just be the quickest way to success.
We all have something we'd love to do, but often our fear of failure outweighs the potential of our destiny. But what if we found out that failure could actually help us succeed?
In Chasing Failure, Ryan Leak shares the science behind why people are afraid to fail, mixing in real-life stories and adding practical steps to help us intentionally chase failure in order to embrace the opportunities that come with it. Everyone fails in life--but if you're willing to learn, improve, and grow because of your failures, you are already on the road to success.
As a motivational speaker, whether addressing people in corporations, churches, or youth events, Ryan has a message of hope: failure is right around the corner, so be brave enough to chase it! The good life is on the other side, and as he says, "God promises to be with you always, even through the failure."
Packed with wisdom, specific strategies, and a key takeaway included at the end of each chapter, Chasing Failure will help you:
- Explore whether your dream idea is worth pursuing
- Count the cost and create an action plan for your idea
- Learn how to effectively deal with criticism
- Understand how to embrace failure and learn how it can propel you
By blending personal stories, get-up-and-go encouragement, and practical step-by-step advice, Ryan Leak will show you how chasing failure could be the quickest way to success.
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Featured ReviewsRyan Leak was AMAZING today. Our clients have been singing his praises all day long!
AbbVie
To close out 2020, our firm hired Ryan Leak to speak to our colleagues and some key partners about the importance of taking care of themselves, to inspire them to get uncomfortable and to chase failure as these are some of the pillars of personal growth
Ryan Watkins
President & CEO, Marsh & McLennan Agency
Our business resource group had the pleasure of having Ryan facilitate an enneagram workshop for our organization. Ryan was knowledgeable, informative, and able to captivate our audience with both learning and life skills for self-awareness and career development. We had over 90% of participants report increased learning and knowledge and numerous people ask for Ryan to come back for workshops for their departments.
Ashleigh Hargrave
Senior Diversity, Inclusion and Health Equity Practitioner
Ryan by far is one of the best speakers/presenters/educators in his field. Ryan can take you from doubled over laughter literally to tears in 3 minutes and draw you into his stories where you feel it and can touch it and your senses are awaken. His story telling ability and his way to lead you to lesson after life lesson is so powerful. Highly recommend Ryan as a speaker or full day seminar on his expertise in the Enneagram training
Sarah Middleton
President of Sales & CEO of Fairway Ignite
