Ryan Durkin
CEO & Founder @ The Operators
An uncaged animal that will destroy anything that slows him down. He's started companies, he's exited high growth companies (Drizly acquired by Uber for $1.1 Billion), worked at multi billion orgs, and he's helped others raise tens of millions of dollars. He can build. He can recruit and he can inspire. He’s now reinventing the recruiting industry by bringing agents, managers, and coaches to tech.
Domain Expertise: People Ops & Product Management
Most passionate problem sets:
Building dream teams
Operator coaching & aligning organizations
Doing the work (I like getting my hands dirty)
Career Experiences: The Operators, Drizly, Wayfair
💪🏽 COACHING COURSES
1X1: Employee Lifecyle Coaching
Let’s ramp up your People Ops function from 0-to-60. We will cover topics throughout the entire employee lifecycle, including employer branding, talent acquisition, onboarding, talent management, L&D, offboarding, compensation, leveling, performance reviews, etc, etc, etc, etc, etcccccc.
$2,500 per month
(Typically two sessions per month + prep work + followup email/text time)
GROUP SESSION: Project People
Each week we run a group session on popular topics within the People Ops realm, particularly focused on building killer teams. We focus on not just the “tips and tricks” but unique long term strategies that SuperAgents and Superconnectors in Boston & NYC to harness the power of others to build your team.
2 hours
$325 per person
⭐ Core Values
Embrace the Champion Mindest
1. Dream big & build for the long term
2. Be a student of the game
3. Put in the work. #workethic.
4. Flourish in adversity
5. Move with urgency & make decisions
6. Be bostonian transparent. Tell it like it is.
7. Be a magnet for exceptional talent
8. Inspire innovation & creativity
9. Exist to serve your customers and team 24/7/365
10. Take care of yourself & take care of the family
Interests
🏍️ Passion areas: Building things, riding my motorcycle, crypto & blockchain DApps, mental health, running and keeping fit, piano, traveling, podcast listening, optimizing the mind and body to help us all live to 150.
📚 Favorite books: How to Win Friends & Influence People, The Score Takes Care of Itself, Atlas Shrugged, Lincoln the Unknown, A Christmas Carol
🆘 Causes I support: National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI), Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Massachusetts Soldiers Legacy Fund, Wayfund
🌍 Fun goals in 2021: Have a fluent conversation with a friend in Spanish, live and work remotely in Europe for 90 days, feel at peace with my meditation practice.
A Peak Inside My Life
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