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From IAAPA Mentee to Expo Speaker
Ryan Tiffin will join Joseph Shepard at IAAPA Expo 2026 for a conversation about building trust, influence, and impact before the title.
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Ryan Tiffin
Experience leader. Author. Consultant. Speaker.
I connect guest experience, operations, team culture, brand strategy, communications, and creative storytelling to help organizations build stronger teams and more memorable experiences—through leadership roles, consulting, workshops, and speaking.
Guest ExperienceOperationsTeam CultureThemed Entertainment
Now based in
Orlando
The themed-entertainment capital
Author of
Chasing Magic
Orlando · IAAPA Expo 2026
Next stop: IAAPA!
A little countdown to a big conversation. Join Ryan & Joseph Shepard for Leading Before the Title.
November 17 · 2:30 p.m. ET · W303ABC
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Leadership, experience, and the stories behind Chasing Magic.
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A career built across experiences
One through line: how people feel.
Selected outcomes and the breadth of environments that have shaped my approach to leadership.
What I bring
I understand the promise, the people, and the operation behind the experience.
My career has moved through hospitality, cinema, tourism, municipal government, immersive attractions, live events, communications, brand leadership, and creative entrepreneurship. That range lets me see the entire journey rather than one isolated function.
Guest Experience & Operations
Service culture, standards, recovery, training, workflows, launches, and the day-to-day systems that make the brand promise real.
Leadership & Organizational Clarity
Helping teams understand purpose, priorities, expectations, and how their work connects to the broader experience.
Brand, Story & Reputation
Positioning, campaigns, earned media, internal communication, community relationships, and storytelling people remember.
Leadership in the real world
The work happens with people, in the room, and in the moment.
Selected chapters
From the frontline to executive strategy.
Each role added a different lens: the guest, the team member, the operator, the communicator, the creative, and the leader responsible for bringing it all together.
Brand, Growth & Guest Experience
Incredible Food & Fun
Executive leadership connecting a company-wide rebrand, guest experience, national earned media, project management, partner onboarding, campaigns, operations, and organizational standards.
Immersive Attractions
Van Gogh Experience
Leading guest-facing operations across box office, retail, VR, security, accessibility programming, and the complete visitor journey.
The Through Line
Themed Entertainment
A lifelong belief that story, operations, culture, and human connection can transform an ordinary interaction into a lasting memory.
Recognition & perspective
Work that has earned attention—and trust.
Recognition matters most when it reflects collaborative work, clear strategy, and a better experience for guests and teams.
Industry Recognition
Pizza Marketplace 2026 Top 100 Movers & Shakers
Incredible Food & Fun’s transformation was recognized among industry leaders driving innovation. I was proud to help lead the brand strategy and operational rollout behind that evolution.
Leadership Perspective
Designing Brand Experience in Modern Hospitality
Manage Marketing featured my perspective on aligning brand strategy, operations, culture, and people to create memorable guest experiences.
400+
Earned Media
Stories reaching national audiences
Across Arkansas Tourism and Incredible Food & Fun, I have helped generate more than 400 earned-media placements, including national distribution through Yahoo Finance and other outlets.
Speaking & events
Ideas are meant to move beyond the page.
IAAPA Expo 2026 · Young Professionals Education Session
Leading Before the Title: Building Trust, Influence, and Impact
Countdown to Ryan's IAAPA Expo 2026 session
Tuesday, November 17 · 2:30 p.m. ET · W303ABC
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Co-presented with Joseph ShepardFinance & Development Manager · Time Mission
An IAAPA Expo 2026 Young Professionals education session on leading without formal authority, building trust, and turning everyday ownership into influence and impact.
The story behind the work
Chasing Magic
Chasing Magic: How Experience Changes Lives and Shapes Leaders is part memoir, part leadership reflection, and part love letter to the people and places that teach us who we are. It is now available in print, Kindle, and audiobook formats.
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How Experience Changes Lives and Shapes Leaders
“You do not remember the moment because it was perfect. You remember it because of how it made you feel.”
Chasing Magic Insights
Weekly reflections on leadership, experience, and the human side of the work.
Community Is Not a Campaign. It’s a Relationship.
Community partnerships work when hospitality brands listen first, keep commitments, share credit, and build relationships that last beyond a campaign or event.
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The Quiet Moment Is Part of the Experience
Memorable guest experiences need more than excitement. Practical ways to offer quieter choices, clearer routes, and more useful support in hospitality and attractions.
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The Best Mentorship Starts With a Better Question
Practical mentorship advice for emerging hospitality and attractions leaders: bring a real question, translate frontline experience, and turn perspective into action.
Read the articleIdeas built to be shared
A growing community around leadership, creativity, and experience.
I share practical leadership observations, creative lessons, career reflections, and stories about the experiences that shape people and organizations.
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TIFFIN · Music & Creative Work
The creative thread
Music taught me how to read a room. Leadership taught me how to change it.
Years behind the decks taught me how to sense energy, adapt in real time, build momentum, and create a shared emotional arc. Those same instincts shape how I approach teams, brands, events, and guest journeys.
About Ryan
A leader shaped by the experiences he learned to create.
Ryan Tiffin is an author, experience and brand leader, consultant, speaker, storyteller, DJ, and creative strategist. His career spans themed entertainment, hospitality, tourism, cinema, live events, communications, operations, public service, and experience-driven brands.
Now based in Orlando, Ryan is bringing those chapters together through select consulting and speaking engagements while exploring the right full-time leadership opportunity.
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Experience-led consulting for brands, leaders, and teams.
Guest Experience, Brand Pulse & Team Culture Consulting
The guest experience begins backstage.
Ryan helps experience-driven organizations strengthen team confidence, communication, service culture, social media pulse, and the everyday operations guests can feel.
Team & guest-experience diagnostics
Leadership alignment
Communication & handoffs
Workshops & implementation support
Brand pulse & social review
The next chapter
Available for select consulting and speaking engagements—and the right leadership opportunity.
For employers, Ryan brings cross-functional leadership across guest experience, operations, projects, attractions, hospitality, entertainment, communications, and brand strategy. For organizations, he offers practical consulting and workshops that strengthen the team experience behind the guest experience.