About
Ryan is a San Diego native, entrepreneur, speaker, writer, and consultant. He writes about worldchanging business–those that leave society and the world better off with everything that they do–and incorporating the same values into our lives to find balance and fulfillment.
After studying economics at University of California at Berkeley, he ventured across the San Francisco bay to work on the Pacific Exchange, stumbling down Bush Street before the sun rose, and then relocated to southern California, where did finance and employee engagement work for Boeing. In 2005, he was then recruited to join an accomplished team of consultants, with whom he designed and implemented organizational and process changes for a publicly-traded pharmaceutical company. Afterwards, Ryan set off to launch the the world’s first website that lets users contribute to ranking companies based on their social impacts, co-founding Breakthrough Innovation Group (BIG Inc.) with Rod Ebrahimi, which launched dotherightthing.com and has been featured in the New York Times, San Francisco Chronicle, as well as hundreds of blogs around the world. Today BIG works with pioneeringly responsible companies to turn corporate social responsibility (CSR) into a conversation with consumers online. Ryan enjoys traveling, training for and running marathons, Bikram yoga, cooking, and working hard to make a positive impact on people.
To contact Ryan directly, email him at hey at ryanmickle.com
Thanks for the photo, Terry Chay
