Ryan Findley

Degree(s): Business Management

Professional background, interests and expertise: Working with Center for Entrepreneurial Leadership (CEL) at African Leadership Academy, Ryan served as the Leadership Curriculum Lead for both CEL and the Academy’s Lifelong Engagement Department; Ryan also served as Director of the Global Scholars Program. Ryan has leveraged his worldwide leadership development expertise to consult to schools and organizations about building their leadership curriculum from the classroom to the boardroom. Ryan has
trained teachers globally in the areas of experiential learning, design thinking, values-based (character) education and entrepreneurship education. Ryan also works with African Leadership University, leading the program design of ALU’s newly launched MBA program.

Hours available for mentoring per month: 1-2

Best professional advice: If you're interested in leadership education, be a CA! There is no better way to learn all that it takes to develop people into their greatest leadership potential.  If you think you would enjoy leadership consulting, I recommend finding someone who does it already and sitting at their feet for as long as they will let you.  Follow them around, watch them work.  If you just like "leadership stuff" and don't know what to do with that (i.e. you're like I was), just invest deeply in the areas in which you're already serving/leading and let it go from there.  Oh, and DO NOT just get a graduate degree for the heck of it.