Ruth has more than 25 years experience as an executive and team coach, and workshop facilitator, working with leaders, owners, young emerging leaders, and senior management teams (including working virtually with global teams), supporting them through organisational change, rapid growth, succession, starting up and pre/post acquisition.
In 1991 she became one of the original coaches at The Coaching House, one of the UK’s first executive coaching companies. She was instrumental in building the company’s approach and led many projects for them during their first eight years of business. She started up, and for five years was the MD at the UK hub of Insight, an international training company. She launched Creation in 1999.
Ruth often collaborates with colleagues; she designs, leads, delivers and project-manages short and long-term coaching projects for individuals and teams through Leadership Coaching Limited and Acumen Global Partners.
Alongside her corporate work, she is one of a small global team of facilitators presenting transformational development seminars around the world to groups of up to 200 people. Ruth has coached over 10,000 people in this dynamic format.
She is currently a faculty member for Psychosynthesis Coaching's 'Certificate in Psychosynthesis Leadership Coaching' and recently served as a Board Director for APECS (Association of Professional Executive Coaching and Supervision).
Over the years Ruth has developed her own philosophy, models and coaching style. She prides herself in her ability to listen at the deepest level in order to fully identify and address the core of any issue. She has a special interest in enabling her clients to form, grow and maintain mutually rewarding, motivating, high-performing relationships inside and outside their teams. She focuses on expanding perspectives to help her clients thrive in ever-increasing complexity, and to discover new realms of possibility beyond perceived and real limitations.
Ruth is an APECS Accredited Executive Coach, has a Master Practitioner Diploma in Systemic Team Coaching with the Academy of Executive Coaching, is an Integral Development Coach with New Ventures West, has diplomas in NLP and Psychosynthesis, is experienced in R2 Strengths Profiler, and is certified in The Leadership Circle and MBTI profiling tools.
associates & affiliates
We have formed an international group of associates and affiliates, each of whom brings a different approach to unlocking individual, team and corporate potential.
We select coaches to suit particular programmes and client personalities. We draw from a rich spectrum of expertise and use each other for design input.
Our backgrounds and experience include advertising, the oil industry, personal development, psychology, drama, recruitment, design, finance, law, the outdoors, and the computer industry.
We share a common interest in bringing out the best in people, creating brave results and improving the quality of life experienced in the workplace.