Laurie Ruettimann's bio and career highlights.

1. Laurie Ruettimann, SPHR, SHRM-SCP
• Laurie Ruettimann is a former Human Resources leader turned influential speaker, writer and strategist.
She owns a human resources consultancy that offers a broad range of HR services to human resources
leaders and executives. You may know Ruettimann as the creator of the websites The Cynical Girl and
Punk Rock HR, which Forbes named as a top 100 website for women. You may also have read her book, I
AM HR: 5 Strategic Ways to Break Stereotypes and Reclaim HR. (RepCap Press, 2014.)
• Ruettimann has been published in a variety of places including AOL, Business Insider, The Conference
Board Review, CFO Magazine, Entrepreneur, Forbes, The New York Times, Reader’s Digest, Suicide
Girls, The Wall Street Journal, US News and World Report and USA Today. She has keynoted, lectured a
nd participated in business events around the world held by Harvard Business School, SXSW, Microsoft,
Google, NBCUniversal, American Marketing Association, MediaBistro and many others. She is also
recognized as one of the Top 5 career advisors by CareerBuilder and CNN.
• Ruettimann has been an international speaker and HR diplomatic ambassador, and she has addressed
live audiences across the United States, Canada, Great Britain, France, the Cayman Islands, Turkey and
Cuba.
• Ruettimann has worked in staffing, recruiting, and Human Resources at Leaf Candy Company (Hershey
Chocolate), Yoh Staffing, Monsanto, Spherion, Zurich NA, Alberto-Culver (Unilever), Kemper Insurance
and Pfizer. She studied at Regent’s University London and holds a B.A. in Literature from Webster
University in Webster Groves, MO.