Meet our coaches
Ruth enables leaders to respond and adapt to change, recognising the struggles people can face during disruption and the potential impact on how they work and on the success of change.
A very experienced coach-mentor, consultant and facilitator with over twenty-five years' of experience, Ruth enables improvement in the way leaders and their teams lead to meet organisational and individual needs. She engages with leaders to create change and transformation, to facilitate transition into new roles and to empower teams to develop the collective intelligence they need to address the complex and multifaceted challenges they face.
Specialising in working with leaders on how they lead, engage and motivate their teams. EMCC accredited to Master Practitioner level and through her PhD research, Ruth is working alongside senior leaders to facilitate their development and to embed sustainable changes into how they live and lead
COACHING STYLE
Ruth’s clients describe her as being pragmatic, direct, skilled, flexible and empathetic. She has high credibility, and creates supportive, challenging relationships which catalyse higher levels of resilience and adaptability to sustain productivity through disruption and change.
- Drive through and enable change at individual, departmental and organisational levels
- Release the energy required to improve levels of resilience and adaptability to improve productivity through disruption and change
- Gain clarity and set direction to achieve required outcomes and results
- Transition to Senior Leadership and Board level roles and sustain outstanding performance
- Develop effective collaborative ways of working that benefit individuals and their organisations
Examples of Ruth’s client work in both the private and public sector include enabling a Board to develop focus and find clarity in a crisis situation, embedding new cultures and ways of working within teams and organisations and helping teams prepare to and then implement change.
On an individual level she has worked with a number of leaders to thrive as they take on new executive roles, specifically as they take on more strategic responsibilities and develop collaborative practices.
Clients in the private sector have included BAE Systems, Pfizer, Boots, Vodafone and L’Oreal, as well as small financial and design companies. In the public sector she has worked with board members and senior leaders in the NHS and the FCO.
When I'm not in work
In the summer I love open water swimming and in the winter skiing. Whatever time of year it is, I really enjoy a good cup of coffee and can be persuaded to do a wicked rendition of Barry Manilow’s Copacabana.