Ryan Berman: Unlocking Corporate Courage

It’s a sensitive, uncertain time in business. We are witnessing a clarity epidemic before our very eyes, causing catastrophic levels of paralysis that is stymieing growth and splintering cultures. That lack of corporate action is creating internal politics, negativity, and quite often, mass turnover.

Enter Ryan Berman—who believes being courageous is our ultimate competitive advantage. If 95% of our competition is stuck in freeze or flight, and we can train our teams to be in that 5% that learns how to fight, then this is a liberating differentiator from the rest of the competitive pack.

He envisions a world where courageous leaders are creating courageous cultures. Those courageous cultures are accepting of courageous ideas and innovation. In essence, any willing being, business, or brand can return on courage.

And when you do, you’ll feel it permeating in your people, products, and corporate purpose. Ultimately, you give teams permission to courageously take on the hardships of change.

In his exhilarating interactive presentation, award winning story-teller, author and entrepreneur Ryan Berman will teach the audience why we desperately need to be courageous now as well as the know how in five steps to transforming into a courageous brand.

You’ll learn how to 1) better communicate, 2) create true internal conviction, 3) land on a rally-cry-in- your-why cause, 4) spot business fears before it’s too late, 5)make courageous change. Ryan will hand over his full tool kit to help you pick up time to drive courageous change vs change driving you.

You’ll walk away with the necessary skill set and mind set to take your own courageous action—which can liberate your company, your team and yourself!

Ryan Berman has more than 20 years in the courageous ideas space and an intimate understanding of the intricacies of emotional story telling for the purposes of driving courageous change. Ryan, a practitioner and authority on the subject, has had his methods featured in Entrepreneur, Fast Company, Inc and Forbes.

In addition to giving talks at Google, Snapchat and charity: water, Ryan speaks all over the country to C Suite, marketing and professional services audiences on the topic. He covers the learning’s found in his book Return On Courage: A Business Playbook For Change.

Living in San Diego, California, Ryan has had the good fortune of creating stories for household brands such as Caesars Entertainment, Johnson & Johnson, Major League Baseball, PUMA, Qualcomm, Subway and UNICEF.

He has been featured on a panoply of Podcasts including Adam Markel’s New Pivot Podcast, Bryan Kramer’s H2H podcast, Awesome At Your Job podcast and Rhett Power.
Ryan also has his own Courage Brand called “Sock Problems” – an altruistic sock company that strives to “sock” world problems with socks.

Ryan recently launched Courage Bootcamp as an 8 week online course helping companies galvanize their staff and pinpoint their best talent.