Liz Ring Carlson on Authenticity, Soft Skills, and What Makes Lincoln Work

Liz Ring Carlson has spent nearly thirty years in corporate communications, most of it in Lincoln. She is vice president of corporate communications and community relations at Ameritas, a founding board member of ECHO Collective, and a Kansas State history major who found her way into public relations more or less sideways.In this conversation with Randy Bretz and Dr. Marilyn S. Moore, she talks about the peacock mug that reminds her to stop trying to fit in, the pandemic dinner her three kids staged to cheer her up, and the soft skills she looks for in interns that she says she cannot teach. She also makes a case for why Lincoln is an unusually easy place to make something happen — two degrees of separation, she calls it — and what the city needs to attend to as it grows.Recorded in the roasting room at The Coffee Roaster in Lincoln, Nebraska.ABOUT THE SHOWCommon Grounds: Conversations from The Roasting Room is an ongoing series of unhurried conversations with people whose work and ideas shape the life of Lincoln, Nebraska and our surrounding community. Hosted by Randy Bretz and Dr. Marilyn S. Moore, recorded at The Coffee Roaster.Episode archive: https://coffeeroasterlnk.com/blogs/common-groundsListen on Spotify and Apple Podcasts.#LizRingCarlson #LincolnNebraska #EchoCollective #Ameritas #CommonGroundsPodcast