What if the most powerful leadership lessons aren’t taught, but lived?

For Ryan Tiffin, leadership was never learned in a classroom. It was built through moments, through loss, through reinvention, and through the pursuit of something just out of reach.

Chasing Magic is a deeply personal and cinematic journey through the experiences that shaped a life in storytelling, guest experience, and leadership. From standing in a crowd beneath the fireworks at Walt Disney World to navigating identity, adversity, and ambition, Ryan shares the moments that defined not just who he became, but how he leads.

But this is more than a memoir.

It is a reflection on what it truly means to lead people in a world where experience is everything.

Through real stories and hard-earned lessons, Chasing Magic explores:

• Why experience is the foundation of leadership

• How transparency builds trust and culture

• The power of language in shaping human behavior

• What it means to lead with empathy, clarity, and accountability

• How the smallest moments create the biggest impactThis book is for leaders, creators, and anyone searching for meaning in the work they do and the lives they touch.

Because the magic was never just in the fireworks.

It was in the people who created them.

And the ones who chose to believe in them.