OUR TEAM

Making a Difference with Results, Expertise and Flexibility

LISA D. RYAN

PRINCIPAL

In 2018, LISA D. RYAN, LLC launched to provide human resource consulting services to family enterprises and wealth management firms.  Lisa has 20 years’ experience assisting sophisticated clients and senior executives attain goals and enhance organizations through executive recruiting/talent acquisition, talent management, career transition coaching, executive coaching, leadership development and human resource advisory services.  

She is recognized nationally as an expert in providing human capital solutions to family enterprises/wealth management firms and for her ability to understand their business strategies and their unique cultures. She genuinely cares about people and building long-term relationships with individuals and organizations.  Lisa’s track record of success, along with her commitment to integrity, honesty and confidentiality, has resulted in satisfied clients, long-term relationships and client referrals.  Her high emotional intelligence, along with her pragmatism from 30 years of business experience, help her to engage with clients in an impactful way.

With 20 years of executive retained search experience, Lisa has served as a Managing Director at two boutique retained-search firms, as well as Family Office Exchange (FOX), where she managed their recruiting and human resource consulting area.  She is seasoned at placing executives in leadership roles in family enterprises and wealth advisory firms, nationwide.

Additionally, Lisa has executed consulting assignments related to assessing client/families’ needs, 360-degree feedback assessments and compensation benchmarking for family office executives.  Lisa is a certified administrator of the following behavioral evaluations: DISC/PIAV, the Hogan Assessment and the Leadership Versatility Index. Using behavioral assessments, she is effective in team-building and improving communications; executive coaching and leadership development; and third-party 360 review assessments.

She was introduced to the executive search business through her prior career providing M&A advisory services to a family-owned commercial real estate company. She helped the company expand nationally through acquisitions and recruiting efforts.  Previously, Lisa worked in real estate finance for 10 years.

Lisa is an adjunct career coach with Kensington International and an Executive in Residence at Dominican University’s Brennan School of Business in River Forest, Illinois. She also is an active community leader – serving as chair of the River Forest Planning Commission, trustee of the River Forest Development Review Board and board member of Thrive Counseling Center in nearby Oak Park.

Lisa received her Masters of City Planning degree from Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, and her Bachelor of Arts degree from Hollins University, Hollins, Va.

MARIAN R. JOHNSON

CONSULTANT

Marian joined Lisa D. Ryan LLC in December 2019 after over thirty years in the financial services industry, with demonstrated success developing and managing relationships with corporate executives, high net worth individuals/families and sophisticated investment professionals, including mutual and hedge fund managers, both in the United States and the United Kingdom. She has excelled at establishing strong partnerships, cultivating long-term relationships and creating robust marketing initiatives. Due to Marian’s high emotional intelligence, strong client service orientation and empathic listening skills, she has been a trusted advisor and partner to her many clients, addressing their individual and unique needs.

She possesses a deep knowledge of financial markets across broad market sectors and is skilled in Securities, Asset Management, Securities Regulation, Trading and FINRA.

Marian started her career with The Robinson-Humphrey Company in Atlanta. She then segued into the capital markets arena as an Institutional Equity Salesperson with Alex. Brown & Sons International in London initially, then with Wheat, First, Butcher & Singer and its successor companies First Union Capital Markets and Wachovia Securities, where she built and substantially grew the firm’s international presence and worked with management teams of publicly traded companies to share their growth strategy with buyside firms. More recently, Marian worked as a Senior Vice President with Davenport & Company LLC, spending ten years in Institutional Equity Sales and the last six as a Wealth Advisor to high net worth individuals and families.

Currently, Marian is utilizing her wealth management knowledge, her relationship management skills and her broad network to work with and support the executive recruiting efforts of Lisa D. Ryan, LLC.

Marian received her Bachelor of Arts in French and Art History from Hollins University where she was elected to Phi Beta Kappa.