Ryan Schafer

Bio

Ryan is a healthcare operations and transformation leader with 25+ years of experience making large, complicated organizations actually work better. He's spent his career in the space where People, Process, and Technology collide — building strategies that look great on paper and implementing them in the real world. With a background spanning consulting, health plan operations, and interim executive leadership, Ryan has a particular passion for the role of the second-in-command: the COOs, Chiefs of Staff, and integrators who quietly hold organizations together and make bold visions actually happen. A pragmatist at heart, he's known for brokering alignment, breaking big transformational efforts into steps that don't terrify people, and leading teams that deliver measurable results. He's also based in Minnesota, which means he shows up to things like this.