Ryan Colthorp is the Senior Director of Workforce Planning and Recruiting Operations at Okta, where he builds and leads people strategies that directly align workforce planning with business outcomes. With over 15 years of experience at global organizations like LinkedIn and JPMorgan Chase, he has built high-performing project management, operations, and analytics teams. His work has focused on developing strategic workforce frameworks and driving enterprise-wide transformation. A dedicated advocate for using data in strategic people decisions, he leverages his background in project and change management to translate those strategies into measurable results. Ryan holds a Master’s degree from Columbia University, is an avid runner, and is active in his local Chicago neighborhood community.