Should You Take a GLP-1 to Get a Job? by Laurie Ruettimann If you’re unemployed or stuck in a long job search, you may have found yourself asking a question you never expected to ask. Should I take a GLP-1 to get hired? People don’t ask this because they’re shallow. They ask it because job…
How I Actually Think About Building, Leading, and Sustaining Organizations By Laurie Ruettimann I’ve spent more than 30 years working in and around organizations. I’ve been an employee, a leader, a founder, an advisor, a consultant, and an entrepreneur. I’ve worked inside systems that functioned well and systems that quietly broke people while insisting everything…
My Leadership Philosophy After 30 Years of Work By Laurie Ruettimann I’ve spent more than 30 years working in and around organizations. I started as an HR assistant in the mid-1990s, worked my way through union environments and large corporations, and eventually left traditional leadership roles to write, teach, speak, and coach full time. Today,…
Every year there are a few people in HR who grab my attention and don’t let go. Jamie Jackson is one of them. Why Jamie? I trust her judgment. I learn from her. When she speaks on the HR Besties podcast, I find myself nodding along, not because she is pandering to me, but because…
Are You Ready For More? Most people wait for a promotion or a performance review to tell them it’s time to grow. You don’t need any of that because you already know it’s time. You need a reset, a plan, and the confidence to lead yourself into the new year. Join me on December 17,…
Stop posting your random thoughts and feelings to social media. It’s weird. I’m not saying that from a high horse. I’m saying it from the front seat of the same clown car. Who are you talking to? Who am I talking to? Why are we performing our loneliness in public like it’s a talent show?…
I’ve been giving a virtual talk called “Ready for More” to employees and leaders at learning events, lunch-and-learns, and sales meetings. It’s about taking ownership of your work, making wise decisions, inspiring others, and finding momentum in a world that won’t stop changing. I’ve shared it with Fortune 100 companies, tech firms, healthcare groups, nonprofits,…
“If you were my wife, I wouldn’t let you do this job.” A friend said that to me in 2010. We were offstage at a conference, and I’d just shown him the emails I was getting. Vulgar, obscene, stomach-turning messages. He was horrified. This was fifteen years ago. We were younger, optimistic, and the business…
There’s a lot of chatter on LinkedIn lately about how HR needs to be “AI fluent.” It sounds urgent. Strategic. Maybe even inevitable. It’s also mostly nonsense. The people pushing this idea often mean well. They want human resources and talent-focused professionals to understand how large language models (LLMs), automation, and predictive tools might reshape…
I won’t be attending SHRM’s annual conference this year. Instead, I’ll be at the beach, which is a better choice. But because I’m a nerd, I read through this year’s lineup, and it felt like flipping through a college coursebook—some required, some ridiculous, and a few surprising. I told my friend Jennifer McClure that these…
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