Keynote Speaker Lisa Ryan - IRN 2015 Kickoff - Thursday afternoon January 22, 2015.
Thursday, January 22, 2015Lisa Ryan
Lisa Ryan, MBA, is Chief Appreciation Strategist at Grategy. Featured in the award-winning film, “The Keeper of the Keys” with Jack Canfield of Chicken Soup for the Soul, she shares techniques to harness the power of gratitude in business and in life with her audiences. She also co-stars “The Gratitude Experiment” with several other experts from the smash book and movie “The Secret.”
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han twenty years of sales, marketing and training experience, Lisa Ryan works with organizations, corporations and non-profits. Her goal is to help them keep their top talent and best customers from becoming someone else’s. She achieves this by teaching employers how to build a stronger, more profitable, lasting relationship between a company and its employees and customers by creating a culture of appreciation. After all, when employees feel appreciated, they like to come to work, they work harder and will stay with that employer for a much longer period of time. When customers feel appreciated, they are easier to work with, provide more referrals and are loyal to the organization. Ultimately this leads to higher profits for the company.
Her sales career has spanned a variety of industries including executive recruiting/staffing, industrial and healthcare. From growing a brand-new territory into a top selling region while in the welding industry to conducting over 500 continuing education programs to healthcare professionals while selling medical consumable products, she has had a diverse and very successful career.
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peaks on a variety of topics, and her specialty is presenting programs which focus on her proven gratitude technology, called “grategies.” These strategies generate employee and customer engagement, retention and recognition by creating a culture of appreciation in the home and in workplace.
She is the author of six books, The Upside of Down Times: Discovering the Power of Gratitude, Express Gratitude. Experience Good: A Daily Gratitude Journal, From Afraid to Speak to Paid to Speak: How Overcoming Public Speaking Anxiety Boosts Your Confidence and Career, Thank You Notes: Your 30 Days of Gratitude Workbook, 52 Weeks of Gratitude: From Appreciation to Transformation, and With Excellence, which she co-authored with Dr. John DeMartini.
Lisa serves on the board of the Ohio Chapter of the National Speakers Association and is an active member of her Toastmasters International Club. She holds a Bachelor’s Degree and an MBA in marketing from Cleveland State University.