Bio

Ryan Rigoli is a personal brand and leadership coach with extensive experience helping individuals and teams bring forth their unique contributions into the world with greater confidence, ease and joy.  He has more than 15 years of brand marketing experience and has held leadership and management positions at Yahoo!, Homestead.com (now a subsidiary of Intuit), and IRI Inc.

In his most recent corporate position as Sr. Director of Marketing at Yahoo!, he was responsible for the marketing and branding of many high priority consumer initiatives on the Yahoo! Network. Specifically, he led company-wide efforts to launch both Yahoo! Local and Yahoo! Answers into the marketplace, two products that were first of their kind in the U.S. market.

Ryan now enjoys helping business professionals transition into careers and leadership positions that inspire them and the people they are passionate to support.  He specializes in helping them to uncover and embody a personal brand that aligns their unique gifts with their life’s work.

Ryan uses an approach that combines traditional brand techniques with a holistic approach to coaching in mind, body and spirit.  The result of his approach is a personal brand that will help business professionals resonate more powerfully with others and help them to stay true to their own inner compass.

Ryan is also the CEO of Soulful Brand which helps solo entrepreneurs stand out in their market, while staying true to themselves.

Ryan graduated with a B.S. in Environmental Science and Economics from Stanford University.  Additionally, he is a Certified Integral Coach with the New Ventures West Integral Coaching ® Program in San Francisco, California and is a mentor for new coaches in the program.  He is also a trained True Purpose ™ Coach and Voice Dialogue Facilitator.  He is a regular student of Vinyasa yoga and Hapkido and practices many forms of meditation including his focus on Vipassana, or insight meditation, a form of Buddhism that helps people find within themselves greater peace, wisdom and compassion.  He is also an avid traveler and has written about his travels through Latin America.

For more information on his professional background you can check out his Linkedin Profile.

Note:  I will be changing the name of my company soon to Soulful Brand.

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