ABOUT US

Lydia L. Ramos-Mendoza

 

Lydia L. Ramos-Mendoza is managing partner of LLRM Creativa, LLC, an executive coaching and communications consulting firm. With three decades of combined experience in the journalism and education fields, Ramos-Mendoza helps leaders create the conditions for success in their professional and personal lives as an executive coach and communications consultant.

 

The third generation Mexican American is particularly focused on ways to directly impact leaders committed to anti-racism. She believes everyone is creative, resourceful and whole, and works to help leaders draw on their personal and professional strengths to design new ways of thinking and executing that include and celebrate marginalized voices.

 

Ramos-Mendoza started her journalism career as a reporter covering education and the Latino community for the Los Angeles Times. She transitioned to broadcast journalism as a producer for NBC News, covering national news, presidential politics, foreign affairs, and terrorism in the Burbank and Washington, D.C. bureaus, serving as producer to Andrea Mitchell and Gwen Ifill. She also helped launch MSNBC and later produced  “Nueva America,” an NBC News documentary about the emergence of Latinos in politics, culture and entertainment. 

 

In 2001, she left journalism to teach English and journalism at her alma mater in Los Angeles, Phineas Banning High School. She then served as a spokesperson, director of internal communications, special assistant to the superintendent, and director of communications for the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD). Ramos-Mendoza was recruited to assist then-Boston Public Schools (BPS) Superintendent Tommy Chang transition into his new role, serving as executive coach for 10 BPS cabinet members, and supporting his vision to bring equity, coherence and innovation into Boston’s schools as senior advisor to the superintendent between 2015-2017. 

 

Combining her varied professional experiences with her passion for helping leaders live from their essence, Ramos-Mendoza is committed to a life of learning and service.

 

Ramos-Mendoza earned her bachelor’s degree in Print Journalism in 1991 and her master’s degree in Education, Learning and Instruction, in 2004 from the University of Southern California. In 2018, she earned Harvard Business School alumni status with executive education courses focused on leadership development, public education and behavioral economics. She earned her Leadership Coaching Certificate from Georgetown University’s Institute for Transformational Leadership in 2019 and her Associate Certified Coaching (ACC) credential from the International Coach Federation in 2020. She lives with her wife, son, daughter and two dogs in Long Beach, CA.

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Lauren A. Ramos-Mendoza

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Lauren A. Ramos-Mendoza is managing partner of LLRM Creativa, LLC, an executive coaching and communications consulting firm in Long Beach, CA. Lauren has spent most of her career dedicated to sharing the power of public education ⎯  from the second largest school district in the nation to the largest public university system in the United States. 

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As the product of L.A. public schools and a daughter of a public school educator, Lauren grew up in and around schools. She experienced the dedication of her teachers at her own school and saw the tireless commitment of school staff, principals and teachers at her mom's school; and every day she was surrounded by hundreds of stories about how life-changing education can be. 

Lauren continued to experience the power of education first-hand as she earned her bachelor’s degrees in Political Science and Chicana/o Studies from the University of California, Los Angeles and her master's degree at the University of Southern California's Annenberg School for Journalism and Communication. Assignment after assignment, she constantly found herself writing articles or producing video packages about education. 

At the Los Angeles Unified School District, Lauren was not only able to share stories of the teachers, principals and school staff, she helped create a division dedicated to internal communications. Through new and creative approaches, she worked to engage employees, build awareness and motivate those that served L.A. students. 

Lauren expanded her storytelling skills for school systems across the country as the associate director of communications for The Broad Center at its founding city of Los Angeles. 

Most recently, at the California State University Chancellor’s Office, Lauren collaborated with colleagues and facilitated the development of communication projects to promote the CSU’s mission and brand. 

Outside of education, she also worked with numerous news outlets, and at the National AFL-CIO in Washington, DC to highlight the stories of union workers within the Department of Media Outreach. 
 

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