Ryan P. Brown, PhD, is the managing director for measurement and associate director at the Doerr Institute for New Leaders at Rice University. He regularly consults with organizations on ways to measure their impact on people and achieve transformational goals across industries including publishing, banking, government, the nonprofit sector, and education. He has published more than 60 scientific articles on human thought and behavior over the last 25 years and is the author/co-author of three books, the most recent of which is titled Measuring the Mist: A Practical Guide for Discovering What Really Works in Leader Development (Doerr Institute, 2022).