Julie Ridl

Julie Ridl studied ancient history, classical literature, storytelling, folk tales, fiction writing, and journalism. These are all related pursuits. She has worked in every kind of communications office that the corporate and agency communities have conceived during the past three decades, including employee communications, investor relations, public relations, organizational dynamics, learning offices, marketing communications groups, knowledge management groups, web development groups, and information technology groups. Some of these groups she managed. She says her work boils down to one thing… storytelling. People respond to good stories and great timing, or at least sensitive timing. She’s really been working on that one thing in all these ways all this time. She is our chief empath, spending much of her time listening to our customers and their customers to figure out what they really need. When she’s not knitting stories together, she’s actually knitting, often while Jack reads to her, and with one or two of three possible pets on her lap, sometimes in the company of grownup type kids, Meridith and Jason, who do visit, but never often enough.