Who We Are

Amy Lynne Ratnow, Founder & Owner  
Amy has always enjoyed the spirit of competition and being a team player. As a child she was the only girl on an all boys hockey team from age 6-12. And then as a college student she left Indiana University to play soccer and lacrosse at Lake Forest College, where she ultimately graduated. 

With her flair for creativity and a drive to succeed, Amy started a corporate gift company and that blossomed into meeting and event planning. She met several women at various stages in their careers, looking for employment and realized she needed to help bridge the gap. Amy knew it was time to open her own company where she could build on her relationships with her client partners and support women joining the workforce. It was a great way to combine her entrepreneurial side and her passion for helping people. In 2017 birthed the creation of ALR Connections. 

Amy enjoys yoga, spinning, pickle, music, traveling, entertainment and sporting events with her husband, three kids and two dogs.

Ruth Joseph, Staffing Consultant 

Ruth is caring, thoughtful and passionate about helping others. After college, she was a media maven, coordinating and booking media tours for Edelman Public Relations. This blossomed into her working with many Chicago public relations firms, large and small, where she achieved the media results they wanted. She also had a constant stream of her own clients to publicize as well.  She always had a dream to match candidates with opportunities. She was constantly "connecting" people this way throughout her life and jumped at the chance to perform these tasks professionally with Amy.  Ruth enjoys Pilates, yoga, and travel. She lives in Deerfield with her husband David and daughters Sophie and Talia. 

Carly Ubersox, Staffing Consultant

Carly is a communicator at heart. At the start of her career she spent more than a decade in the entertainment public relations industry, which culminated with several years working for Oprah Winfrey and Harpo Productions. Her relationships with clients, writers, reporters and colleagues depended heavily on trusted communications. Later when social media started to change the PR and media landscape, Carly began exploring ways to pivot into a more balanced lifestyle, one that allowed her to flex unique workplace strengths while also enjoying personal growth (which included a growing family!). She understands how it feels to devote oneself to a career and then change it later in life, and she joins Amy and Ruth in helping other women navigate their own professional paths with new focus. She is passionate about great fiction, vinyasa yoga, dance fitness, and creative food. A lifelong Chicagoan, she currently lives in Evanston with her husband and two daughters.