Sep 2012 – Sep 2014 · 2 yrs · Denver, Colorado

• I wrote a print column and a blog for the Denver Post

Jun 2012 – Jun 2013 · 1 yr · virtual

• I led a free, monthly webinar series for the Northwestern University Alumni Association. The series is called "Your Journey, Your Career with Liz Ryan." We met once a month to talk about personal branding, career planning, networking, Human-Voiced Resume(TM)-writing, Pain Letters(TM), entrepreneurs and tons of fun stuff.

Mar 2012 – Present · 14 yrs 2 mos · Westchester County, New York, United States

• Human Workplace is a coaching, content and consulting firm. We are reinventing work with a human voice. We coach working people, job seekers, career changers, entrepreneurs & leaders and create job-search, branding, leadership, HR and career development courses, events and eBooks for individuals, employers, colleges and professional associations.
• Our Become a Career Coach program teaches amazing people from all career backgrounds to become independent career coaches and teach our Human Workplace curriculum.
• Our CEO, Liz Ryan, is a former Fortune 500 HR SVP and the world's most widely-read career authority. Liz is the author of "Reinvention Roadmap: Break the Rules to Get the Job You Want and Career You Deserve" and an electrifying public speaker.

Feb 2012 – Apr 2012 · 2 mos · Loveland, Colorado

• I helped Phil Forman and Karla Quinones, the amazing choir director and theatre teacher at Mountain View High School in Loveland, with the vocal coaching in their production of "Sound of Music" last year. I had just performed the Mother Abbess in the same show in an adult production of SOM in Loveland (not THAT kind of adult production - just a grownup as opposed to high school show) and so I helped the high schoolers with their vocal technique for the high school production of SOM, and played the Mother Abbess for the second time in a year. Fun!

Jul 2011 – Sep 2013 · 2 yrs 2 mos

• I sang opera and operetta with Opera on Tap, which performs in dive bars. Yeah, you have to experience that.

Mar 2011 – Jul 2011 · 4 mos · Loveland, Colorado

• I played the role of the Mother Abbess in "The Sound of Music" at the Rialto Theatre in Loveland. Wore the habit, sang "Climb Every Mountain."

Mar 2010 – Apr 2013 · 3 yrs 1 mo

• I wrote workplace and career advice for Kiplinger Washington Editors.

Jan 2010 – Aug 2014 · 4 yrs 7 mos

• I taught the Career & Professional Development course for MBA candidates.

Mar 2007 – Sep 2012 · 5 yrs 6 mos

• Career Advisor to job-hunters, career-changers and budding entrepreneurs
• Keynote speaker (to corporate, university and not-for-profit groups) on new-millennium workplace issues, Gen Y, leadership, transformational HR
• Consultant to employers on Human Resources initiatives, particularly attracting and retaining diverse employees and creating an inclusive culture
• Workplace advice columnist (Business Week, Yahoo!, Glassdoor.com)
• Media commentator on workplace, networking and work/life topics
• Author, Happy About Online Networking: the Virtual-ly Simple Way to Build Professional Relationships

Mar 2007 – Aug 2012 · 5 yrs 5 mos

• Ask Liz Ryan was a vibrant online community of professionals sharing workplace, business, career, technical, financial and life advice.

Jan 2007 – Jul 2010 · 3 yrs 6 mos

• I sang in "Man of La Mancha" in 2007 and in "A Little Night Music" and "How to Succeed in Business without Really Trying" in 2008

Oct 2006 – Apr 2013 · 6 yrs 6 mos

• Share job-search and networking advice

May 2006 – Mar 2012 · 5 yrs 10 mos

• I wrote career-advice articles.

Jan 2002 – Feb 2014 · 12 yrs 1 mo

• I wrote the "Corporate Provocateur" column for Bloomberg BusinessWeek

Jul 2001 – Mar 2007 · 5 yrs 8 mos

• WorldWIT was the world's largest online network for professional women, launched in Chicago with the ChicWIT discussion group in 1999. We grew to include 85 chapters around the world and over 50,000 members, and to be profiled in TIME magazine, on CNN, in the New York Times and most other major media outlets.
• WorldWIT enabled advice-sharing and networking among professional women to provide support "at the intesection of work and life." Our sponsors included Tyson Foods, Liz Claiborne, Merrill Lynch and many other Fortune 500 organizations.

Jan 1999 – Jan 2001 · 2 yrs

• Built the company from the ground up

Jun 1997 – Jun 1999 · 2 yrs

• HR and Organizational Strategy consulting for Fortune 500 and startup organizations including Aon Insurance, DDB Advertising, LookSmart, Snap.com/NBC Interactive, etc. Led Strategy planning workshops, implemented organizational restructuring, Talent Management programs, post-Acquisition integration, and other organizational initiatives.

Jan 1997 – Jan 1997 · 0 mo

• Once USR was acquired by 3com, I got out of there as fast as my legs would carry me

Jun 1988 – Jun 1997 · 9 yrs

• My principal responsibility was to spread pixie dust around

Jan 1988 – Jan 1997 · 9 yrs

• I had a blast.

Jan 1988 – Jan 1997 · 9 yrs

• Worked among the smartest people ever.

Jan 1988 – Jan 1997 · 9 yrs

• It was all U.S. Robotics. As soon as 3com came in, I fled.

Jan 1979 – Jan 1988 · 9 yrs · Chicago, Illinois

• My boss, John Brady, the VP of Operations, plucked me out of the Order Processing department and put me in charge of HR. I made up the job as I went along.

Jan 1979 – Aug 1979 · 7 mos · NYC and Chicago

• I was at Manhattan School of Music, and my beloved roommate Bev left school in the middle of our sophomore year. I was bereft. I put up a 3 x 5 card on the bulletin board at Manhattan School of Music, and I got a new roommate that way -- a grad student named Janet, who played the clarinet. Janet joined a woodwind quintet called La Strada Quintet, and I went to their concerts as a kind of booster/roadie. The bassoon player in the quintet, Greg, became a good friend of ours (mine and Janet's).
• Greg played classical bassoon and taught at a tony Upper East Side elementary school in the daytime, and at night he had a punk rock band. I started to sing with the band, while I was earning money waitressing at Brew & Burger and other places where German businessmen bought overpriced burgers and steins of beer. (Good tips.) Through Greg, the band, and the confidence gained through waitressing at three or four different places, I found the mojo to quit school and move to Chicago when I was 19. I waited tables there, too, until the outdoor cafe where I was working (Melvin's, at the corner of Rush and Cedar) shut down for the winter, and someone told me that you have to be 21 (or had to be, back then) to serve alcohol. That drove me indoors, to office work, and all sorts of office-type adventures.