From HR Leader to Influential Author, Speaker, and Entrepreneur
Laurie Ruettimann is a former human resources leader, author, and keynote speaker who helps people fix work by fixing themselves first. She wrote “Betting on You: How to Put Yourself First and (Finally) Take Control of Your Career” (Henry Holt, 2021), a guide to taking control of your career without waiting for your employer to save you.
Laurie has worked in HR for over twenty years, holding leadership roles at companies including Monsanto, Alberto-Culver, Kemper Insurance, and Pfizer, before leaving corporate America to tell the truth about work. CNN recognized her as one of the top career advisors in the United States, Forbes named her blog a Top 100 Website for Women, and her work has been featured on NPR, Fox Business News, The Washington Post, The New Yorker, The Wall Street Journal, USA Today, Vox, and other national outlets. She hosts the Punk Rock HR Podcast, writes a self-named newsletter on Substack, and teaches on LinkedIn Learning, where her flagship course, “Be the Manager People Won’t Leave,” has reached more than 2 million learners.
As an executive coach, Laurie works with leaders and job seekers on career strategy, communication, and professional detachment. As a keynote speaker, she has addressed audiences at Microsoft, Google, Instacart, SXSW, 92Y, Lush, SHRM, and HR Tech, along with conferences and companies around the world.
Laurie co-founded and exited two companies, Glitchpath and HRM Today, and chairs the board of the ITSA Foundation, a nonprofit focused on universal basic income. She lives in Raleigh, North Carolina, with her husband, and a cat named Spicy.
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