My email address is liz@humanworkplace.com If you send me a LinkedIn invitation, please include a joke in it. Thanks! FOLLOW us on Twitter: @humanworkplace LIKE us on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/humanworkplace Our company is Human Workplace. We are designing the Human Workplace for employers, institutions and individuals to make organizations healthier and more productive. We are reinventing work for humans. We invite you to join us! We teach courses from Team Mojo and Put a Human Voice in Your Business to Interviewing with a Human Voice, and work with leaders at the intersections of business and the arts, government and community, and work and life. We consult with, teach at, collaborate with and coach for organizations from startups to the Fortune 100. We collaborate with universities, incubators, employers, government agencies, arts organizations, and vendors whose products and services resonate with the Human Workplace message. We produce events on new-millennium workplace topics like Breastfeeding at Work, Creating the Human Workplace, Recruiting in the post-Back-Hole World, and Business Theatre. We teach HR leaders to become Ministers of Culture in their organizations, and coach individuals to rebrand, reframe and reboot their careers in line with their passions. Check out our 12-week virtual courses, eBooks and private coaching offerings for job-seekers, career-changers, budding and established entrepreneurs and leaders, at http://www.humanworkplace.com. I was a corporate HR exec forever, and after that a startup person and consultant. My articles appear in lots of media outlets: Forbes, LinkedIn, the Huffington Post, the Denver Post, Harvard Business Review, Inc, TIME.com, Business Week and Yahoo! among them. I share on-air commentary for CNN, MSNBC, NPR, BBC Radio and FOX Business. I live in Boulder, Colorado. My husband and I have five angelic bratty kids.I sing opera and draw the images you see in our columns, eBooks and lessons I competed at NATS and took first place for musical theatre singing "Losing My Mind" from "Follies" and "This Place is Mine" from the Maury Yeston "Phantom." I took second place for opera singing "Morro" from "Ballo in Maschera."
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Northwestern University From September 1990 to May 2002 Manhattan School of Music From 1977 to 1997 Loyola University From 1983 to 1986 Liz Ryan is skilled in: Singing, Constructive Feedback, Musical Theatre, Rebranding, Argumentation, Wordplay, Human Workplace (TM) Design, Human-Voiced Resume (TM) writing, Energy-building, Pain Letter (TM) writing, Re-Inventing HR, Making business fun, Re-Inventing Business, The Whole Person Job Search (TM), Pain-Spotting (TM), Reframing, fun, Telling the truth, Celebrating people, Team Mojo (TM), satire, punditry, opera, expert witness, Teaching people how to bring themselves to work, Reducing fear, Building trust, The Electric Classroom (TM), Exploding the Box (of 'thinking out of the box' fame), Perspective-taking, empathy, Dismantling Black Holes, Right brain thinking, friendly debate, banter, rhetoric, jokery, Mojo replacement, Pixie dust distribution, criticism, drama, Business Theatre (TM), discourse, Drawing, Doodling, Illustration, Leadership, Mojo-building, Encouragement
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