Ryann Foelker

About Ryann Foelker

I believe something simple: life is hard, and your service should not make it harder.I help executives and founders in regulated services remove friction and add value so adoption rises, trust holds, and growth follows.In Spring 2026, I’m launching a keynote called The Burden Tax, the recurring cost customers pay when too much automation turns service into disservice: cognitive load, time loss, stress, and the invisible labor of DIY support. People don’t just get annoyed. They follow their feelings: avoiding digital channels, flooding contact centers, churning. Worse, they stop trusting what you say, because what you do doesn’t feel like help.I’m also developing a companion workshop called The Reinvention Sequence, a practical method for using AI to redesign service value around real human needs, resulting in products and services that:+ people actually use,+ leaders can measure,+ and operations can sustain.My specialty is executive transformation and adoption in regulated services: insurance, banking, healthcare, education and other relationship-heavy industries. I combine background in design, foresight, and behavioral economics to:+ align leaders on clear customer value,+ modernize platforms in ways people actually use,+ translate strategy into practical roadmaps,+ and craft a story that builds reputation and drives growth.If you’re reinventing customer value, modernization, or AI-supported service—and you need it to stick—I’m open to a limited number of consulting engagements.If you’re planning an event, I’m also booking The Burden Tax for Spring 2026 and beyond.Selected recognition: Reuters Events (2025 Trailblazing Woman in Insurance); Rise Professionals (2024 Innovator of the Year); Fast Company (2023 Innovator of the Year nominee; 2023 Best Workplaces for Innovators #71); The Digital Insurer (2024 Insurer Innovation Award, Americas); UN DPPA & Design Futures Initiative (2020 Futuring Peace semi-finalist). Certified Futurist (Global Foresight Advisory Council).

Experience

1. Strategic Advisor

   Label Sessions

   Nov 2025 — Present

   Label Sessions signs the brains behind the world\'s most innovative companies, products, brands and thinking. From CEOs and entrepreneurs, to designers, tech thought leaders, artists, researchers, policy makers and campaigners, all of them are experts ready to collaborate.

Education

• Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design

  BFA, Industrial and Product Design

  2002 — 2006

• Burren College of Art

  Independent Study

  2004 — 2004