Liz Guthridge
Senior Strategic Consultant
Liz Guthridge, known as the Lean Communicator, applies lean concepts and other business processes to improve communication effectiveness across organizations. In her role with the L.M. Dulye & Co. team, she works closely with communication departments and functions to help them operate more effectively, add more value and build greater credibility and trust inside and outside their organizations.
Liz has more than 25 years’ experience working across a variety of industries, including consumer products, technology, telecommunications, financial services and manufacturing. She works with organizations undergoing major changes--such as mergers, acquisitions, bankruptcies, and takeover. Constant in Liz’s work is a focus on the customer, disciplined problem-solving skills, practical ideas, flexibility, and a bias toward action and outcomes.
Before joining L.M. Dulye & Co., Liz founded Connect Consulting Group, specializing in lean communications, crisis communication and change management. She also was a principal with Mercer Delta, Mercer HR and Towers Perrin.
Liz started her corporate communications career at Amoco, now BP. She also worked as an investigative reporter for a Gannett newspaper in Huntington, W Va. Liz began her career in sales—selling peanuts, popcorn and crackerjacks as the first female vendor for the Tulsa Oilers, a Triple A baseball team. She is the co-author of the 2006 book, Leading People Through Disasters: An Action Guide for Preparing for and Dealing with the Human Side of Crises (www.leadingpeoplethroughdisasters.com). Her upcoming book is The Lean Communications Manual: the Simple 5-Step System for Doing More with Less and Getting the Results, Respect and Trust You Deserve.
A native of Tulsa, Okla. with family in Louisiana, she has encountered her share of tornadoes and hurricanes. In 1989 while living in New York City, she was displaced from her apartment after the city’s first major steam pipe explosion. She, her husband and dog Tomas now live close to the Hayward Fault in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Liz is active in community affairs in her village of Kensington. Also, she and Tomas, a therapy pet, visit nursing homes and assisted living communities. She is involved in alumni relations and student counseling with her three alma maters: the University of Southern California, Annenberg School for Communication (MA in communication management); the University of Connecticut (MBA); and Northwestern University, the Medill School of Journalism (BSJ in journalism).