Ryan Picarella
Ryan Picarella has worked with communities and organizations around the world to ignite social movements while improving the lives of all people. Widely known for his thought leadership, Ryan has worked with Fortune 500 companies, been a keynote speaker at global conferences and currently serves as executive director of wellness programming for the International Foundation of Employee Benefits overseeing all wellness related education and events, including the National Wellness Institute, the Wellness Council of America and the Arts and Science of Health Promotion conference series. He is also a senior fellow with WE in the Nation focusing on well-being and equity around the world and is founder of Conscious Disruption, a firm dedicated to personal and organizational transformation. Ryan has a Master of Science in Industrial and Organizational Psychology from the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga and a Bachelor of Science in Psychology from Northern Arizona University.