Liz's Bio

Business Week Online workplace columnist, Yahoo!Hotjobs Networking Expert, syndicated workplace advice columnist, Author, Speaker

Liz Ryan is an expert on the new-millennium workplace, a former Fortune 500 Human Resources executive and the author of Happy About Online Networking: The Virtual-ly Simple Way to Build Professional Relationships.

As a keynote speaker, Liz travels throughout the United States and abroad, speaking to groups ranging from Human Resources executives and entrepreneurs to the United Nations. As an advisor to corporations on workplace and leadership issues, she has worked with Omnicom, Tyson Foods, General Electric, NBCi and a long list of global employers. Liz's workplace-advice, job-advice and networking columns reach millions of readers in print and online.

Business guru and author Tom Peters calls Liz "a woman on a mission...the right mission."

Liz is the founder and leader of the Ask Liz Ryan Online Community, a forum in which 30,000 businesspeople get advice from Liz and from one another on business and career topics every day.

Liz's sharp, edgy, humorous and very current observations on the new-millennium workplace, the role of corporate leaders, entrepreneurism and networking have been featured by TIME magazine, Fortune magazine, The New York Times, USA Today and on CNN, CNBC and more.

Liz writes a weekly career column and a Q & A for Business Week Online and is the Yahoo! HotJobs Networking Expert. She is the workplace expert for the website LifeMeetsWork.com, where she contributes commentary and Q & A advice for visitors. She is a commentator for NPR's "Morning Edition" and for BBC Radio, and a syndicated columnist on careers and the workplace.

Liz lives in Boulder, Colorado with her husband and five small children, and is a professional opera singer. Reach Liz here.