Mari Ryan is a workplace well-being expert, international speaker and award-winning author. She is the CEO and founder of AdvancingWellness. For the past 15 years, Mari has been creating thriving workplaces, through her consulting work and speaking on worksite well-being. Mari is the author of award-winning book The Thriving Hive: How People-Centric Workplaces Ignite Engagement and Fuel Results.
Entrepreneurial Role Models:
Non specific
When business started difficulties overcame:
“when I finished that degree in 2008, I probably would not have started my business… We were at the beginning of a deep recession and I am a single person, I owned my home and have some assets but any time you start a new business you really need to have a couple of years’ worth of savings – whatever you need to run your operation and pay yourself in savings and I didn’t have that. So, I went kind of blindly into starting this business”…[Listen for More]
Favourite Books:
- Patrick Lencioni Books
- The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable Book by Patrick M. Lencioni
- The Advantage: Why Organizational Health Trumps Everything Else in Business Book by Patrick M. Lencioni
Favourite Quote:
“Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so you shall become. Your vision is the promise of what you shall one day be; your ideal is the prophecy of what you shall at last unveil.” James Allen
Recommended Online Resources:
- Get Abstract – The world of business, summarized. The world’s largest library of business book summaries. Expand your business knowledge with summaries you can read in 10 minutes or less
Also mentioned:
- National Speakers Association (NSA) – Where professional speakers connect. NSA provides professional speakers with the comprehensive resources, mentoring and professional connections they need to become more efficient and more effective in all aspects of their trade.
Best Advice to Other Entrepreneurs:
“be thoughtful about what you do. Understand why you are making the decisions that you are making and really take the time to be prepared for the decisions you are making. And no that the work that you do has to be meaningful for your customers, you have to solve a customer problem. So, make sure that you are thoughtfully approaching how you are solving that problem for your customer in a way that going to be unique and that will differentiate you”…[Listen for More]
More About Mari Ryan:
Neil’s Quote at the Beginning:
“Do what you feel in your heart to be right – for you’ll be criticized anyway.” Eleanor Roosevelt
Other Quotes From the Chat with Mari Ryan:
- “it’s hard to sort out what I know now from what I wish I knew then”
- “I am clearly a risk to because I entered into this business proposition without a lot of financial support and I was doing it all on my own. And I would think that the financial piece is really important.”
- “Having a board of advisers, people who may have been entrepreneurs, successful entrepreneurs that you could ask for advice and get advice from. I would say that would be the piece that I probably should have done early in my business”
- “never, never, never, never give up”
- “dream lofty dreams”
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