Jim Ylisela

Jim is co-founder and senior partner of Ragan Consulting Group. He is an award-winning veteran Chicago journalist and a former publisher of Ragan.com. He brings more than 30 years of experience in writing, editing, communications research and consulting.

Ylisela has designed and organized newsrooms for many companies and organizations, including Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism. He served as a faculty member and co-director of Medill News Service from 1988 to 2001. He also served as the consulting editor to The Chicago Reporter, an investigative publication focused on race and poverty, from 1990 to 2000. He is a member of the advisory council of Investigative Project on Race and Equity.

After years of providing consulting services ad hoc, Jim and Mark Ragan founded Ragan Consulting Group in 2016 as a full-service agency for Ragan customers and others. Michael Duff, former global managing director of emerging market equities at HSBC, became co-owner