Activating Curiosity

Activating Curiosity is the podcast for forward-thinking construction leaders who want to lead change with clarity, connection, and confidence. Host Ryan Ware, Construction Industry coach, keynote speaker, and founder of Connective Consulting Group and Connecting Coaching, sits down with innovators to ask: What’s the most important problem you’re trying to solve and why? Explore real stories, hidden challenges, and practical tools to help you lead through change. New guest episodes drop monthly with bonus episodes. Subscribe, share and help us build what’s next with curiosity.

Contributors

Host

Ryan Ware

Founder, CEO, and business owner with over two decades working across every segment and level of management/leadership in the construction industry. His career began in Architecture and shifting to construction and prefabrication manufacturers. These different experiences had a commonality, a struggle with change management implementations.

His passion and purpose to help the construction industry advance, combined with his experience, Ryan took to the stage to help and support as many as possible; beginning with helping his audiences build stronger relationships with change. His voice in the construction industry is one that challenges the way leaders think about change, innovation, and leadership. His speaking, coaching, and consulting mission is simple: to help the construction industry evolve by helping those that shape it better navigate change.

https://ryanware.me/

Guests

Guest

Jessica Krause

Jessica’s passion for the construction industry stems from its place in her childhood, growing up in the family sheet metal business. Her career began in public accounting before she eventually became CFO for a Commercial Electrical Contractor based in Kansas City. While in that position, she realized the need for a specialized accounting firm within construction, one that understood the industry’s complexities, processes, and people. From that discovery, Jessica founded her firm, New Lyfe Accounting (NLA), in 2017. Jessica holds a Masters of Science in Accounting from the University of Missouri, Kansas City, and has been a Certified Public Accountant for 15 years. She’s been a member of CFMA since 2013, holds a CCIFP designation, and is an active member of the Specialty Trade Committee of CFMA.

https://newlyfekc.com/

Guest appearance on:

Projects vs. Business: The Truth About Construction Financials

Guest

Mandy McGill

A Global Capital & Built Environment Strategist, tracking how money, talent, and technology flow through the built world—from skyscrapers and mixed-use developments to the workplaces and communities they shape. She bridges industries that rarely connect: corporate real estate, development, construction, private capital, and emerging tech.

With over a decade advising Fortune 500 real estate teams, developers, contractors, and family offices, she translates insider trends into strategies that anticipate capital shifts, position portfolios to win in changing markets, navigate the decentralization of work, and apply AI, blockchain, and emerging tools for an edge.

Founder & CEO of Aedifico ai and Host of Decentralized Everything, she shares unfiltered insights on the future of the built environment and the forces reshaping it—helping clients and audiences make bold, informed moves before the market catches up.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/mandymcgill