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Ryan Leak

Our whitepapers take a deeper look at the questions shaping leadership today. Each one presents original research, practical insights, and clear takeaways that leaders can apply in their organizations.

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Complicated people

Complicated people

The commissioned study behind the New York Times bestseller How to Work with Complicated People, examining how today’s workforce is navigating (or not!) complicated people.

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Change

Adaptitude

Introduces adaptitude, the combination of a person’s attitude toward change and their confidence in their ability to adapt, and explores how it influences people’s experience of work today.

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Stay culture

Stayers just want to have fun

Explores the role of fun at work and how employees’ perceptions of fun influence organizational culture.

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Complicated people whitepaper cover

Complicated people

Complicated people

The commissioned study behind the New York Times bestseller How to Work with Complicated People, examining how today’s workforce is navigating (or not!) complicated people.

Adaptitude whitepaper cover

Change

Adaptitude

Introduces adaptitude, the combination of a person’s attitude toward change and their confidence in their ability to adapt, and explores how it influences people’s experience of work today.

Stayers just want to have fun whitepaper cover

Stay culture

Stayers just want to have fun

Explores the role of fun at work and how employees’ perceptions of fun influence organizational culture.

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ChangeComing soon

When change just keeps coming

Examines change fatigue and finds that while few workers feel overwhelmed, nearly four in ten carry at least moderate fatigue, and that support, effective managers, connection, and role clarity are what keep it in check.

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Stress and pressureComing soon

The inner grind

Names the “Inner Grind,” the internal pressure of overthinking, perfectionism, and self-imposed expectations, and shows it made up four of people’s ten most stressful experiences and formed the single strongest cluster of stress in the study.

Ryan Leak GroupThe shape of stressIn progress

Stress and pressureComing soon

The shape of stress

An in-progress whitepaper mapping how everyday stressors cluster and connect, and what that structure reveals about where pressure really comes from.

Ryan Leak GroupAudacityIn progress

AudacityComing soon

Audacity

This study examines how people conceptualize audacity and the attitudes they hold toward it, offering a research-based look at how this quality is understood today.

Ryan Leak GroupWhitepaper on “Fit”In progress

Stay cultureComing soon

Whitepaper on “Fit”

An in-progress study of what “fit” really means and how much it shapes who stays and thrives.

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