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 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.

• Small interventions can shift our mindsets for 2–4 weeks.

• 15 minute training just talking about how people are not fixed can be beneficial.

• TED Talks and brain plasticity.

• Open vs. Closed mindset

• Compare our mind to a bucket relating to a particular area.

• Closed minded don’t invite feedback.

• Open minded folks leave space in their bucket.

• Book recommendations: Success Mindsets

• Bridgewater Associates - Principles by Ray Dalio.

• Discussions - are we a team or a group where ideas can be heard?

• Principles for success

• Prevention vs. Promotion mindsets

• Compliance is the stereotypical prevention mindset.

• Is that place of safety the intended destination.

• Interventions: Have a destination.

• Amy Purdy ted talk

• Greatest Showman Keala Settle

• Inward mindsets: we see ourselves as being more important than others.

• Outward mindset: others have needs just as great as my own.

• Interventions: positive self talk. Am I seeing people as tools?

• The Arbinger Institute: Leadership and self-deception

• TED talk Benjamin Xander

• When we have an inward mindset, we expect students to cater to us.

• The most powerful thing we can do as educators is see students as people.

• How to be a transformative principal? Go individually to his or her teachers and ask what stands in your way of being your ideal self?

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