State Contacts

Ryan Underwood
Nevada FBLA-PBL Executive Director
director@nevadafbla.org

Ryan has been the Executive Director of Nevada FBLA-PBL since 2001 and is the President and Chief Leadership Officer of TRI Leadership Resources, LLC (TRI is the management company hired by the Nevada Department of Education to manage Nevada FBLA-PBL operations).

Ryan is a FBLA-PBL expert and veteran leader of association management. In 1988 he was elected the youngest state officer in Oregon FBLA history and later went on to serve as State President and National Vice President of the Western Region and placed first nationally in the Local Chapter Annual Business Report competition.

Ryan was nominated by National FBLA-PBL and was selected to be a volunteer leader of the distinguished March of Dimes National Youth Council. In this position he served as Chair of the FBLA-PBL Partnership and over a four year period led an increase in fundraising from $200,000 to more than $500,000 annually and increased chapter participation by over 1300%. He has been involved in various volunteer and consulting projects for the March of Dimes helping to raise more than $1 million to benefit their mission.

While earning his bachelors degree cum laude from Pepperdine University, Ryan founded TRI Leadership Resources, LLC a nationwide leadership development and management company specializing in nonprofit and student organizations. He coached the FBLA and PBL National Officer Teams for seven years and co-founded FBLA-PBL’s Institute for Leaders national training program in 1997. In addition to his leadership role in Nevada, Ryan is a founding Trustee and member of the Oregon FBLA Foundation, Secretary of the California FBLA, Inc. Board of Directors and Director of their Gold Coast Section serving chapters in Los Angeles, Ventura, and Santa Barbara Counties.

Ryan and his company TRI have consulted, trained, and worked for all Career Technical Student Organizations (CTSO’s) and have trained more than 2 million national, state, and local chapter officers, members, staff, and educators throughout the U.S. since 1991. In addition to FBLA-PBL, TRI has conducted the national training for DECA and FCCLA and worked closely with TSA, SkillsUSA, BPA, FFA, and HOSA on the state and national level. TRI has extensive experience working with all facets of association management and leadership development—especially in FBLA-PBL annually serving states like California, Oregon, Washington, Nevada, Georgia, Pennsylvania, Colorado, North Dakota, Florida, Mississippi, Louisiana, Kansas, and more with a complete portfolio of event, online, fundraising, training, marketing, and program development services.

In addition to nonprofit student organizations, TRI provides consulting, training, and speaking services for organizations like the Walt Disney Company, FedEx, Carl’s Junior Restaurants, US Bank, Nova University, Departments of Education, School Business Officials Associations, school student body officers, and high school and college leadership programs.