Rebecca Ryan
Rebecca Ryan is an energetic entrepreneur and the founder of Next Generation Consulting. Corporate and community leaders rely on Rebecca and her team to understand “kids these days.” NGC helps clients design strategies to retain their young, future leaders; they have helped some of America’s best workplaces achieve rankings in the Fortune 100 Best Places to Work, and helped cities including Nashville, Milwaukee, and Columbus, OH design award-winning workforce strategies.Ryan summarized her firm’s research in her 2007 book, Live First, Work Second: Getting Inside the Minds of the Next Generation.
When you hire Rebecca for your event, she won't:
- Read her slides to the audience;
- Act like a demanding diva before, during or after the event;
- Project charts with 12-point font and expect the audience to see it;
- Insult your audience or their intelligence.
Here's what Rebecca will do (and has done consistently for audiences around the world since 1998):
- Tell the truth about what it takes to engage the next generation. (And when the truth is hard to hear, she'll make it funny.)
- Make data dance. Rebecca knows that executives love numbers, but she takes it a step further and animates the research with stories, wit and insight about how NGC's clients make that data come to life;
- Have fun, and help your attendees see their strengths as the next generation sees them; and
- Invest more time after her presentation with the key decision makers who can help bring about change. In this smaller, more intimate meeting, Rebecca welcomes a candid discussion where key officials can ask the tough questions, and she can offer more specific advice and counsel.
Rebecca's message and speaking style is not for everyone. If you have uptight, change-resistant participants who can't laugh, and aren't willing to make investments in their future, please stop reading right now and google "speakers who make us feel comfortable with the status quo."
Keynote Topics
- Seriously...You Don't Get Me, Do You?
- Education: Is There an App for That?
- Unite and Ignite: Bringing Generations Together
- Cities 3.0: Reflecting, Responding and Redesigning for an Uncertain Future
- Thinking Around the Corner: Five Trends in 50 Minutes
Reviews
"I am a HUGE Rebecca Ryan fan. If you've ever seen Rebecca speak, as I have, you know that she has an engaging and cutting edge style of giving companies and comunities realistic and candid advice."
-Richard Florida
"Even leaders of 'Great Places to Work' sometimes need someone to turn to for advice on how to keep the next generation stoked about work. For us, Rebecca and her team at NGC are our go-to people. They've provided us with data to direct our recruiting efforts, and have gently gotten me back on course when I've made minor missteps. Any firm committed to being a great workplace has NGC in their smartphone."
- Andy Armanino, Managing Partner, Armanino McKenna, one of the San Francisco Bay Area's "Best Places to Work," 2002-2008
More on Rebecca
Accolades:
- Top 100 Most Influential People, Accounting Today
- Communicator of the Year, Women in Communication
- Woman of Influence, Business Journal of Greater Milwaukee
- Entrepreneur of the Year, U.S. Association for Small Business and Entrepreneurship
Education: Bachelors of Arts in Economics, Bachelor of Arts in International Relations, Drake University, Kozgaz University Budapest, Hungary Institut fur European Studiern, Freiburg, Germany
Rebecca was raised in West Bend, Wisconsin, by members of the “greatest generation.” Her father retired from the West Bend Company in 1988 after 33 years of service, the last generation to expect lifetime employment with one company. She returned to Wisconsin after living, working, and playing professional basketball in Iowa, Minneapolis, Germany, and Hungary, respectively.
Rebecca serves on the boards of the Greater Madison (WI) Chamber of Commerce (GMCC) and the World Academy for Entrepreneurship & Enterprise (WAE2). She lives with her partner and three labrador retrievers in Madison.
Since 2002, NGC has enjoyed triple digit year over year growth. For this, Rebecca was named 2004 Entrepreneur of the Year by the U.S. Association for Small Business and Entrepreneurship. Many people are surprised to learn that NGC – which consults in dozens of communities and whose speakers appear at more than 40 organizations each year – has only three employees, distributed in Nashville, Boston, and Milwaukee-Madison.
In addition to her leadership at NGC, Rebecca serves on the Boards of Spirit of Milwaukee, the Women’s Fund of the Greater Milwaukee Foundation, and the Greater Madison Chamber of Commerce. She is the youngest ever trustee appointed at Alverno College (Milwaukee, WI). The Milwaukee Business Journal refers to Rebecca as a “Woman of Influence” and Milwaukee Magazine has identified her as one of 35 faces of the future. Richard Florida, author of the best-seller The Rise of the Creative Class refers to Rebecca’s work as “cutting edge.”
Rebecca’s ideas and insights appear regularly in Madison Magazine and Worthwhile Magazine. She has been a guest author or expert in Business X’pansion Management, Entrepreneur Magazine, the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal and numerous local and regional media outlets.
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