Jim Ylisela

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Jim Ylisela

Co-owner and senior partner

Ragan Consulting Group

Jim Ylisela is co-founder and senior partner of RCG. He is an award-winning veteran Chicago journalist and a former publisher of Ragan.com. He brings more than 30 years of experience in writing, editing, communications research and consulting. Ylisela has designed and organized newsrooms for many companies and organizations, including Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism, where he served as a faculty member and co-director of Medill News Service from 1988 to 2001. He works with communicators to create brand journalism news sites, organize and train writers and editors and restore reporting (and creative storytelling) to internal and external communications.

Talks About
#strategiccommunications #socialmedia #publicspeaking

Preferred Locations
#NorthAmerica

Speaking Engagements

Ragan's Employee Communications 101 Virtual Conference

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Employees are your most important stakeholder, so it behooves any forward-thinking communicator to fully understand what drives internal communications success. To that end, Ragan has gathered veteran employee communications trainers and senior-level comms executives for a fast-paced one-day virtual conference on Jan.

31-31 January 2023

Human Resources

Social Media Conference 2024

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Is social media flatlining? Is X (formerly Twitter) dead? What about the metaverse? Is Threads overhyped? Either way, there’s no doubt that social media is on pace for its most transformative — even tumultuous — year since Facebook and then-Twitter launched over 15 years go. The good news: You can convert the chaos of continued economic pressures (

27-29 March 2024

Marketing & Advertising

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Jim Ylisela

Co-owner and senior partner

Speaking Engagements

Ragan's Employee Communications 101 Virtual Conference

Social Media Conference 2024