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EPISODE · Jun 5, 2026 · 36 MIN

AGL 472: Ryan Vet

from A Geek Leader Podcast - inspiring technical and creative leaders around the world

About Ryan Ryan Vet is a USA Today bestselling author, generational futurist, keynote speaker, and entrepreneur with more than twenty years of experience at the intersection of leadership, technology, and organizational change. He began his entrepreneurial journey as a teenager, legally forming his first company at the courthouse alongside his father. That moment set the tone for everything that followed. Ryan has always believed that building something real requires doing it right, and that commitment to disciplined execution has defined his career. Over the next two decades, Ryan built and scaled businesses across industries, leading organizations from pre-revenue through large-scale operations. He served as President of a company that reached a valuation of over $750 million. He has navigated successful ventures and failed ones, and he is candid about both — because the failures are as instructive as the wins, often more so. Ryan’s operating experience gave him an unusual vantage point: he managed multi-generational teams at scale, in real time, under real pressure. He watched the fractures that form when different generational values collide in hiring, communication, technology adoption, and organizational culture. And he watched those fractures cost companies in ways that never appeared on the P&L. It was in those environments that Ryan developed the frameworks that now anchor his work. The Velocity Gap describes the distance between how fast organizations change and how fast the people inside them can adapt. The Generational Pendulum explains how each generation’s characteristics are a direct response to the generation that raised them. The Generational Prism provides a practical model for leaders who must communicate and lead effectively across fundamentally different value systems. Not in theory, but on Monday morning. Ryan had been writing, researching, and speaking alongside his operating career for years. After a successful exit from a startup in 2021, he devoted his full energy to this work, driven by the conviction that the highest-leverage contribution he could make was not another company, but the synthesis of twenty years of practitioner experience offered to the leaders who need it most. Today, Ryan speaks to corporate leadership teams, HR and L&D organizations, healthcare systems, financial services firms, associations, and universities across 45+ states and four continents. He is a USA Today bestselling author and has been featured in Forbes, ABC, and NBC. He writes the Collide newsletter on generational leadership and the future of work. Ryan continues to manage a portfolio of companies including real estate investment, hospitality, and software ventures. He holds limited partner positions in venture capital funds and is an active angel investor, maintaining his practitioner’s edge not as a credential, but as a discipline. His work as a generational futurist and keynote speaker is grounded in a simple conviction: the organizations that will lead the next decade are not the ones with the best strategy. They are the ones that figure out how to get five generations of people to work toward the same thing. Today We Talked About Background AI for future workforce What is “Not” going to change because of AI Cognative Errosion spell check GPS what’s next ? Removing friction from life 7 factors that make the generational pendilum swing slower Echo chambers Benefits of tech Boundaries History Connect with Ryan LinkedIn Website Books Leave me a tip $ Click here to Donate to the show I hope you enjoyed this show, please head over to Apple Podcasts and subscribe and leave me a rating and review, even one sentence will help spread the word.  Thanks again!

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