Our leadership team.

Most days you’ll find me listening to an eclectic mix of music while riding the trails around downtown Phoenix; I started my entrepreneurial life at the age of 10 to fund my love of music. That Nebraska kid realized that the songs he loved were about creating a better version of yourself. Thus began a quest for self-knowledge, self-awareness and individuation. Poring through my own research and performing deep dives into psychological literature, I grew to the conviction that personal development isn’t just for the arts, psychology, or spirituality. Great companies spring from people uniting to share meaning and pursue personal development. I’m excited to have built a company that helps people find their own meaning with work.

Texas native that loves Arizona, father of two young daughters that stress me out, and a 14 year old son that constantly makes me question my intelligence.

Trail runner, washed out tri-athlete, mentor, Maven, wannabe Evangelist, give me AZ sunshine over the A/C, trips to Mexico over San Diego, Jeeps with the top down, exceptional Añejos.

And being around people that are driven, curious and willing to push themselves in pursuit of being great at whatever it is they’ve chosen to do.

Dr. Ryan Stoll is a lifelong designer, serial entrepreneur, clinically-trained psychologist, and translational scientist. Over the past 12 years, he has distinguished himself as a catalytic leader and pioneer in public health innovation, helping realize several technology-assisted and media-rich interventions with academic and business teams. Ryan oversees the creative and strategic direction for the company, guides our innovation priorities, and leads our design, strategy, and implementation activities, bringing his unique expertise to Humanity by Design’s clients, collaborators, and partners.

Before founding Humanity by Design in 2020, Ryan was a consulting dissemination and implementation scientist for academia and industry, lecturer in applied prevention science, and spent five years as the Director of Innovation and Commercialization at Arizona State University’s Courage Lab. While at the Courage Lab, Ryan co-created the first empirically-supported smartphone app for anxiety prevention, generated new models of public health intervention design and delivery, and co-invented COMPASS for Courage, a gamified toolkit to strengthen anxiety coping skills in youth. COMPASS, commercialized out of the lab in 2016, has helped thousands of youths cultivate greater anxiety resilience and is now available at no cost to the public through PBS LearningMedia.

Ryan’s work has culminated in numerous conference presentations, book chapters, and peer-reviewed publications centered on the next-generation of public health interventions, data-driven methods for program development, digital public health technologies, and entrepreneurial approaches to accelerating diffusion of academic innovation into public settings. Earlier in his career Ryan worked as a creative professional for small businesses and startups, in marketing leadership roles for nonprofits, and in supervisory roles in operations and information technology for UPS. Outside of Pathways, Ryan serves on leadership committees for university-based translational science initiatives and is a collaborator on several federally-funded research projects.