Bob Ryan

Bob is a business leader and executive advisor at Shields Meneley Partners, a unique and specialized consulting firm helping the  most senior executives with career transitions, their post-corporate lives  and in-position leadership development.

Throughout Bob’s career in business, including roles at P&G,  Bombardier, and Griffith Foods, he has been known as “Coach.” As trusted  advisor for all levels of the organizations, he helps develop leaders and  future leaders, his passion for more than 30 years. Since 2014, Bob has been  doing this work full-time. He brings a unique perspective to the table with  an education in engineering and several decades of experience as a human  resource leader.

Born on Montreal, he attended college at McGill and Carleton Universities.  Bob brings a global viewpoint having held positions in four different countries and responsibilities in the Americas, Eastern and Western Europe  and Asia.

He recently served on his first corporate board, Madison-Kipp Corp., until  the sale of the firm. He is a managing director of The Sierra Institute, an “invitation-only” group of senior CHROs whose mission is the advancement of  their organizations, the HR community and each other.  

Bob is an ICF-certified coach, graduating from the Hudson Institute of  Coaching in Santa Barbara, California. He has held numerous not-for-profit board positions in the arts, economic development, human resources and the British  American Business Council, the Union League Club of Chicago and the 786 Club,  a group of civilians and former Navy veterans supporting the crew of the  attack submarine, USS Illinois. Bob is a member of the Executive Club of  Chicago and the Human Resource Management Association of Chicago. He lives in  Chicago with his wife, Viki, a well-being coach. Bob has two daughters both  with careers in Human Resources.