Liz Ryan is the voice of the new-millennium workplace. Here are Liz's most recently-added speaking topics:

  • Leadership in the MySpace Era: Technology, Community and Motivation for a Post-Millennium Workplace
  • HR as Minister of Culture: Bringing Human Factors to the Fore
  • Leading Globally: Managing the Virtual, Diverse, Connected Workforce
  • The New Talent Frontier: Online Networking and Community for Corporate Leaders
  • Beyond Women and Minorities: Inclusion in a Global Workplace 
  • Social Networking for HR Leaders: How Community and Knowledge-Sharing Build Culture 
  • Entrepreneurism as a Skill Set: What Corporate Leaders Need to Know 
  • Me at Work and Me at Home: A New Vision for Work/Life Balance 
  • Online Persona in the Workplace: Blogs, Networking and Identity in the MySpace Era 
  • The Next Generation of Talent: Re-Thinking Recruiting in a Post-Millennium

 

Here is a selection of Liz's recent program topics, with program notes:

Tapping Your Personal Power
Businesspeople in the new millennium are learning the limits of "conferred power" - the kind that is bestowed upon us by others, that's represented by titles, big staffs, big budgets and other trappings of corporate success. Today, the critical asset is Personal Power, and workplace expert Liz Ryan will share insights on how to build, reinforce, and use your Personal Power in the workplace. From saying what needs to be said in tense situations to developing a powerful network, Liz's sharp, witty observations on the true sources and uses of power will inspire and entertain - and provide useful how-tos for a dozen common workplace power struggles.

 

Women  & Self Sabotage

How many evenings after work have you re-played your business day and thought "Now why did I say THAT?" Liz Ryan, workplace expert and founder of Ask Liz Ryan, the global career- and workplace-advice community, shares advice on avoiding the pitfalls that can turn professional women into their own worst enemies: including second-guessing yourself, choosing excessive deference over confidence, and undermining your own best ideas. Come and learn with us, and laugh over the self-sabotage traps that have gotten almost all of us at one time or another.

 

The HR Leader as Minister of Culture

Nearly through the first decade of the new millennium, an HR leader's role as cultural caretaker has never been more critical. How do you grab the reins of your Minister of Culture post and move your organization into productive cultural transformation? How do you build organizational support, which formal and informal communication channels are most effective in culture-building, and how do HR practices and standards reinforce or detract from your culture-development efforts? Former Fortune 500 HR leader, entrepreneur and workplace expert Liz Ryan will share observations and insights on HR's critical role in the development of a talent-retaining, customer-focused organizational culture. Liz is a former Fortune 500 HR executive, a workplace expert, award-winning entrepreneur, mother of five and the CEO of Ask Liz Ryan, the global online community dedicated to supporting professionals at the intersection of work and life. Liz is the workplace columnist for Business Week online, the on-air workplace commentator for BBC Radio, and a frequent workplace analyst on CNN, MSNBC, Comcast and other major broadcast outlets. 

 

Social Networking: Business Relationships Built Here

How are savvy networkers leveraging the power of social networking sites to build and sustain profitable business relationships? Online networking guru Liz Ryan, CEO of the global online community Ask Liz Ryan, author (Happy About Online Networking) and popular keynoter on workplace and networking topics, shares her advice on building an online network and making fruitful connections. Liz's talk will cover creating your online profile; reaching out to other online networkers; using social networks like LinkedIn, Facebook, and Twitter; making, requesting, and accepting introductions; and dozens of useful online networking etiquette tips. Join us for this lively and practical workshop to get your own online network growing! 

 

Women & Corporate Leadership: Where We've Been and Where We're Going

Liz Ryan entered the corporate world "sideways," after completing her conservatory training as an opera singer, rising to become an officer in a Fortune 500 company in her early thirties. After attaining the role of HR leader for a Fortune 500 corporation, Liz started her own business to support working men and women at the intersection of work and life, along the way creating the world?s largest online community for women and raising her own five children. Liz will share her insights on where corporate women have made the greatest strides to date and what's ahead for us. What will be the Power Skills for corporate women over the next decade, and how can we mesh corporate roles with our outside-of-work goals and obligations? Corporate leader, entrepreneur, and mother of five kids, Liz's insights will shed light on what's in store for women in the corporate arena. How women are changing the face of corporate culture, and how do we take advantage of these changes? Liz will provide insights into characteristics of the most successful women in business, as well as tips on what NOT to do.

The New Corporate Ladder: How to Succeed in the Post-Millennium Workplace

We all know that globalization, the internet, and the 24/7 workplace have created dramatic change in the relationships between corporate people and their jobs. What's next? Liz Ryan, HR executive, workplace commentator and CEO of the global online community Ask Liz Ryan, will share observations on how to succeed in the fast, virtual, around-the-clock corporate workplace. Liz's tips and stories, gleaned from conversations with working people around the world, her own leadership and consulting experiences, and daily interaction with 25,000 Ask Liz Ryan members and five small children of her own, will give participants a new framework for thinking about career success.

 

To Learn to Juggle, Start with One Ball: Managing Life's Many Tasks

A majority of working women reporting that juggling priorities is the hardest part of their job - and it's not getting any easier. Liz Ryan, workplace expert, leader of the global online network WorldWIT and mother of five small kids, will share insights on getting your obligations and tasks under control. Combining insights on setting boundaries, prioritizing based on your needs, and getting more done in less time, Liz's advice will provide lots of techniques for juggling more effectively and with less stress.

 

Your Great Idea is the First Ten Percent-How to Build a Business Around Your Dream

Every day, mid-career professionals have personal "ahas!" that drive them to take the plunge and start their own small businesses. Liz Ryan, a former Fortune 500 corporate executive, serial entrepreneur and founder of the global online community Ask Liz Ryan, will share wisdom and inspiration for all that must follow your great idea - the other 90% of the energy supply that will drive your business success. From guerilla marketing ideas to the five essential people needed to help steer your business as it grows, Liz's tips, real-life stories and observations will be valuable for would-be and budding entrepreneurs and seasoned business owners alike.

 

Corporate Careers: Recreating the Corporate Workplace for Humans

 Liz Ryan, a 25-year corporate HR leader, workplace expert and founder of the global online network Ask Liz Ryan, shares her observations and learnings from the corporate front lines. Even as mid-career professionals are leaving the corporate world in droves, others are using their hard-won influence to re-engineer their employers' corporate cultures toward a more authentic, work-life balanced and human workplace environment. How do they do it, what's working, and how do you embark on such a mission in your own organization? Liz's pithy, edgy real-world approach has earned her praise from audiences across the U.S. and abroad; join us to celebrate the possibilities for humans in corporate America!

Browse the following list of Liz's most commonly-requested speaking topics, or suggest a new-millennium workplace-related topics of your own for Liz to address!

    Networking Topics

 

·             Networking at Work - An Internal View

·             Business Cards Optional ? People-Focused Networking that Works

·             Women and Networking ? Relationships First

·             Networking Online - Reaching Out Globally

·             Teach Your Employees to Network

 

Human Resources Leadership Topics

 

·             HR and Business Leadership - Beyond Strategic Business Partner

·             Networking your Organization from the Inside Out

·             HR and Internal Communication ? Setting the Tone for a Winning Team

·             The HR Leader as Minister of Culture

·             The Same and Different ? A Diversity and Inclusion Perspective for HR Leaders

·             What Orchestral Conductors Know: Toward a New Vision for HR Leadership

 

Entrepreneurial Topics

 

·             Your Great Idea is the First Ten Percent - How to Build a Business Around Your Dream

·             Women and Small Business - From the Dining Room to the Boardroom

·             Network Your Way Into Your Best Markets

 

Corporate Leadership Topics

 

·             Creating the Organization Your Customers Would Ask For

·             Understanding the Post-Millennium Workforce

·             Leadership That Builds A Winning Culture

·             Employees as Evangelists - Expanding the Conversation

·             Creating Community Inside Your Organization

 

Work and Life Topics

 

·             Juggling, Balance and Your Internal Barometer

·             When Work and Life Collide - New Strategies

·             Design and Build Your Work-Life Reality

·             Moms, Kids and Life-Cycles: A Primer

 

Women in Business Topics

 

·             Women and Entrepreneurism - We Know a Better Way

·             Creating Global Community ? Women and Online Networking

·             Women and Self-Sabotage (How We Shoot Ourselves in the Foot)

·             Juggling, Balance and Your Internal Barometer

·             Creating an Environment that Unleashes the Potential of Women

·             Women and Corporate Leadership - Where We've Been and Where We're Going

·             Work and Life Collide for Business Women 

 

Careers Topics

 

·             Social Networking is the New Career Essential

·             Creating Your Career Plan and Sticking To It

·             Managing Up, Across and Over Barriers

·             How to Negotiate a Job Offer or a Raise

·             Proposing a Flexible Place or Time Schedule Successfully

·             Interpreting Your Boss--strategies for dealing with this sticky situation

·             New-Millennium Job Search Strategies That Work

·             Interviewing is Not for Wimps ? How to Ace any Job Interview

·             Effective Networking In Any Job Market

·             Job Search for Candidates with Gaps, Blemishes or Checkered Resumes

·             Moms Returning to the Workplace ? Job-Search Essentials

·             Coping with Workplace Stress

·             Romance in the Workplace ? Tips on the Do?s and Don?ts

·             Breastfeeding in the Board Room?business is changing fast, too fast for some

For more information on Liz Ryan or to have her speak at your event, contact Liz here.