About Me
Hi, I'm Ryan
I’m an insights, innovation, and strategy leader with 20+ years of experience helping organizations navigate ambiguity, uncover insights, and unlock growth.
I’ve spent 20+ years inside Fortune 200 organizations — including Eli Lilly, General Mills, and Nestle — helping teams understand people and markets, identify opportunity areas, validate new ideas, and bring innovative processes, partnerships, and solutions to life.
Through State1248, I apply that experience — along with my passion for problem-solving and creating the future — to helping organizations of all sizes make meaningful progress on the challenges and opportunities that matter most.
What I Bring...
1 / Cross-Industry Experience
Diverse insight from food & beverage, healthcare, wellness, tech, startup, and emergent AI.
2 / Clarity in Ambiguity
Ability to quickly bring structure, focus, and direction to complex problems.
3 / Innovation & Insights Depth
Expertise in innovation strategy, consumer insights, and lean experimentation.
4 / Executive + Hands-On Leadership
Comfort advising senior leaders and embedding within teams to drive progress.
5 / Energizing Collaboration
A facilitative, coaching-centered approach that builds confidence and unlocks momentum.
The story behind the name...
After leaving corporate America, I took time to pause and reflect—to understand what energized me, what I valued most, and what I wanted from the next chapter of my work.
While vacationing in Cabo, I fell into a simple morning ritual: journaling at a small café called Doce Cuarenta. It became a quiet space for thinking, clarifying, and reconnecting with possibility. Only later did I learn the name translated to 1240 — a number associated with grounding, clarity, and intentional change. It captured exactly the state of mind I was in.
Around the same time, another number kept surfacing as I imagined the kind of consultancy I wanted to build: 1248 — the beginning of the exponential growth sequence.
The connection between twelve forty (reflection, focus), twelve forty eight (acceleration, expansive possibility), and my next chapter ambitions felt too aligned to ignore.
And "State" captured the mindset behind it all — a way of being grounded in intention, clarity, and leaning in to the possible.
And with that, State1248 was born.
