Lisa Ryals

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About Lisa Ryals

Certified Scrum Master (CSM) and dynamic executive leader with 20+ years of experience leading multimillion‑dollar programs, building high‑performing teams, and scaling nonprofit operations statewide. As an executive leader, I secured $35M+ in funding, streamlined operations, and inspired teams to deliver measurable impact for youth and families.Now expanding my expertise with Agile practices, I integrate Scrum facilitation into program and project leadership — aligning strategy with execution, accelerating delivery, and fostering collaboration across nonprofit and tech‑adjacent sectors. My focus: helping organizations achieve outcomes that matter, faster and smarter.Open to remote opportunities across the U.S. and globally in English‑speaking countries”The Paradoxical Commandments by Dr. Kent M. KeithPeople are illogical, unreasonable, and self-centered. Love them anyway.If you do good, people will accuse you of selfish ulterior motives. Do good anyway.If you are successful, you will win false friends and true enemies. Succeed anyway. The good you do today will be forgotten tomorrow. Do good anyway. Honesty and frankness make you vulnerable. Be honest and frank anyway.The biggest men and women with the biggest ideas can be shot down by the smallest men and women with the smallest minds. Think big anyway. People favor underdogs but follow only top dogs. Fight for a few underdogs anyway. What you spend years building may be destroyed overnight. Build anyway.People really need help but may attack you if you do help them. Help people anyway.Give the world the best you have and you'll get kicked in the teeth. Give the world the best you have anyway.Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want-Randy Pausch