About Liz Guthridge, The LEAN COMMUNICATOR
Helping You Communicate Better by Adding More Value
So who is The LEAN COMMUNICATOR™?
Liz Guthridge, is the creator of The LEAN COMMUNICATOR™ the popular monthly eNewsletter on how to do add more value with less resources to improve your communications and your outcomes. She is the author of LEAN Communications, the 5-Step LEAN COMMUNICATIONS System for Doing More With Less and Getting Great Results.
Liz also is the founder of Connect Consulting Group LLC, a boutique consulting firm specializing in strategic change communications based on LEAN COMMUNICATIONS™ practices and principles.
Liz has devoted herself to organizational communications ever since she realized she wasn’t cut out to be a professional journalist. She wanted to participate, not observe. She cared about solving problems, improving operations, and achieving outcomes. She was more intrigued with two-way communications, tools, templates, and multi-media options than with traditional reporting.
Her passion is helping organizations—companies of all sizes, non-profits and government entities—and the people within them communicate more effectively and efficiently. With her counsel, guidance and hands-on help, Liz’s clients are able to maximize their communication budgets and achieve their business goals while building more credibility and trust. Liz also works with clients to redesign their communication departments and functions.
Liz also is a change expert. Individuals at organizations undergoing major change, such as mergers, acquisitions, bankruptcies and takeovers often call on her. In fact, Liz created the LEAN COMMUNICATIONS™ philosophy, principles and basic practices while working with several bankrupt companies. She and her clients had to be clever to communicate quickly and inexpensively about critical issues.
She and Kathryn McKee are the authors of Leading People Through Disasters: An Action Guide for Preparing for and Dealing with the Human Side of Crises (Berrett-Koehler 2006).
Liz is an education junkie too. Her other claim to fame—besides being a successful consultant and the first female “peanuts, popcorn and crackerjacks vendor” at Tulsa Oiler Baseball Park—is her educational thrift. Liz has a BSJ, the Medill School of Journalism, Northwestern University; an MBA, the University of Connecticut; and an MA, the Annenberg School for Communication, University of Southern California–all for less than $5,000 cash. She was able to fund her higher education through scholarships, work/study, and company tuition reimbursement programs.
Today, Liz lives in the San Francisco Bay area with her husband David Matthews, a recreational cook, not the musician.
