Dr. Ryan Quinn is the Academic Director of the Center for Positive Leadership and Associate Professor at the College of Business. His areas of teaching include leadership, organizational behavior, and negotiations, and change management. His research focuses on topics such as leadership, psychological states, courage, learning from success, and high-impact conversations. Outside of the university, Ryan has consulted for Fortune 500 companies, private firms, and start-up businesses.

Ryan has a B.S. in statistics from Brigham Young University, a Ph.D. in Management and Organizations from the Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan and has studied international business and corporate strategy in Hitotsubashi University in Japan. Ryan has also been heavily involved in the Positive Organizational Scholarship movement, focusing many of his research questions on understanding what makes organizations and the people within them flourish, excel, and exceed expectations.

He co-authored two editions of the book, Lift: The Fundamental State of Leadership with his father, Robert E. Quinn. Ryan lives in Crestwood, Kentucky with his wife, Amy, and they have four children, Mason, Katie, Andrew, and Chloe.

Dr. Hope Zoeller is Founder and President of HOPE (Helping Other People Excel), LLC, a firm that specializes in facilitating leader success at every level of an organization. For over 15 years of her professional career, Dr. Zoeller worked at UPS in various roles including Customer Service, Training and Development and Employee Relations. For the past two decades, she has been consulting with organizations on leadership development. Dr. Zoeller is also a Professor at Spalding University instructing in the Master of Business Communication program. She has a Doctorate in Leadership Education from Spalding University, a Master of Education in Training and Development from the University of Louisville and a Bachelor of Arts in Communications and Psychology from Bellarmine University. Hope co-authored with Dr. Joe DeSensi HOPE for Leaders Unabridged Volume 1 and HOPE Leaders in the 2020s…New Issues to Face, New Problems to Solve, New Hope for the Future Volume 2.