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.

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