Recommendations

Ryan and his team are amazing and fun to work with. They led individuals with dramatically different experiences through a complex and emotional process. Everyone left feeling heard, valued, and proud of the work they had accomplished.

Jenna Koschnitzky, PhD

National Director of Research, Hydrocephalus Association

Ryan is particularly good at taking complex theoretical models in areas like strategic planning and organizational design, and making them productive and digestible for clients.

Yumna Ali

Group Vice President, Learning Solutions – Consumer Sun Trust Bank

Ryan is, hands down, one of the best organizational development professionals I've worked with throughout my career.

Jay Ferro

EVP, Chief Information and Product Officer at EarthLink

I recommend Ryan to anyone or any organization needing organizational development or professional coaching.

Joy King

Executive Director, Be The Match Foundation

I admire Ryan and Ann for what I call their relentless curiosity to dive deep into understanding. We really enjoyed Ryan’s down to earth virtual strategy setting facilitation at a high-pressure time.

Carey Goryl

CEO, AAPPR

I have never seen such patient, excellent and effective facilitation. It was herding cats, if the cats were feral lions and wild tigers.

Dr. Noel Brewer

University of North Carolina

There is no one I would rather have lead my team through a complex organizational re-design than Ryan.

Jennifer Greenwald

VP, American Cancer Society

You WANT to work with Ryan! He is fun. He keeps a fast, yet flexible pace. He has a great sense of humor. He is a clever illustrator! I would choose Ryan to facilitate a meeting or a project every single time.

Kristen Solt

Strategic Director, American Cancer Society

We were working with complex content and a dynamic group, Ryan helped create a process for our working meeting that resulted in concrete and meaningful results. Ryan was the calm in the storm.

Andrea Dwyer

Director, Fight CRC

Ryan has helped me and my leadership team rise to a higher level of performance through facilitated programs that have increased our efficiency, strengthened our knowledge and abilities, improved our leadership capabilities, and optimized our organizational health.

Jay Ferro

EVP, Chief Information and Product Officer at EarthLink

Working with Soisson and Associates helped change our culture and put our great organization on the path for expansion. Having Ann and Ryan facilitate our National Meeting left everyone empowered, energized and positioned to work as one team! I heard countless comments that this was the best National Meeting in 30 years!

Laura Vaughn

CEO, Camp Quality

Ryan is an exceptional coach and teacher of coaches.

Kimberly Currier

Global Leader, Learning and Development at Kimberly Clark Corporation

Ryan’s ability to read a room, adjust on a dime, facilitate authentic conversations and help groups think and act strategically is spectacular. Some of my team doubted the wisdom of bringing in a consultant and Ryan won them over immediately.

Ruth Drew

Director of Information and Support Services, Alzheimer's Association

Whenever he has worked with my team, they always ask, “When can we work with Ryan again?” He is versatile and can work with equal ease with the C-suite and frontline employees.

Katherine Sharpe

Senior Vice President, Patient and Caregiver Support at the American Cancer Society

If you need someone who can guide your team through a challenging problem, see important connections in their work, and make real headway together, hire Ryan. You won’t be disappointed.

Jennifer Haase-Morris

President, Living the Intention

Extraordinary strategic thinker, gifted facilitator, and organizational development wizard — that’s Ryan!

Katherine Sharpe

Senior Vice President, Patient and Caregiver Support at the American Cancer Society

Ryan did a great job facilitating our recent board retreat. He came well prepared and kept us on task. I highly recommend him.

Patti Davis

CEO, Oklahoma Hospital Association

Because he understands the business dynamics surrounding strategy and operations, Ryan has total command over all aspects of what it takes to plan, prepare for, conduct, and analyze the outputs from workshops on the most complicated of issues.

Jeff Rosenberg

Co-Founder and Partner at WideOpen

Ann knows how to sort out crosswinds and surprises in the planning phase, guide virtual group processes to bring out everyone’s views, then capture what we really needed from a full workshop day. She’s amazing!

Hyunjun Kim

Leadership Co-Chair, Association of SNAP Nutrition Education Administrators

Ryan is fantastic at bringing large teams together and leading them through a series of exercises that bring out the best in each person as well as the collective group.

Jeff Rosenberg

Co-Founder and Partner at WideOpen

Ryan and I have worked together several times over the last few years with strategic facilitation with my previous clients, and I deeply respect his process, professionalism and choice of shoes.

Lydia Ruddy

Vice President, Operations, Society for Information Management

Every time I come away amazed at his ability to get people to open up and discuss the real issues.

Kenton Heinze

CEO of Braun & Butler Construction

Ann was FANTASTIC! We accomplished everything I hoped. She expertly facilitated potentially politically charged conversations in a way that made it fun and gave everyone in the room a good understanding of life in the other’s shoes.

Erin Shy

EVP, Community Brands

Ryan is truly an expert in the field of organization development and has created award-winning approaches to leadership development, team effectiveness, and change management.

Nicole Lewis

Vice President, SunTrust Bank

My board exploded and Ryan has done an incredible job helping us to put the pieces back together. I've never met someone so cognizant, strategic, empathetic and straight forward in handling a crisis. We are well on the road to healing.

Dale Higgins

Board President, Advocacy Center of Louisiana

Ryan has consistently demonstrated a flawless ability to help teams work together, identify issues, and work towards solutions, with a constant focus on the customer.

Katherine Sharpe

Senior Vice President, American Cancer Society

I found Ryan’s facilitation of our workshop to be excellent. He had an outstanding process and was flexible in allowing the groups discussion and vetting of issues to be incorporated into his planned agenda. One of the best and most productive sessions I have ever attended.

Lisa Gordon

CEO, Atlanta Habitat

It never fails that when we have spent time with Ryan, the toughest members of the group come to me afterward, thank me for having him come in, and ask when are we going to have him again.

Kenton Heinze

CEO of Braun & Butler Construction

I love, love, love our coaching sessions.

Mindy Beauregard

VP Service Delivery & Operations, LifeWorks

Ryan has an amazing ability to inspire people and to get them to dig into issues that get to the core of a situation.

Kenton Heinze

CEO of Braun & Butler Construction

Ryan has a true gift helping others make critical connections by leveraging learning design and behavior change approaches in the facilitated experience. He successfully manages the highest level of executive facilitation and the most challenging of team interventions, making him an invaluable team member.

Kimberly Currier

Global Leader, Learning and Development at Kimberly Clark Corporation