Your Path to Success with Ruth Kearns Wollmann

In this episode, Ruth picks up the thread from Episode 1 with a closer look at two of the 6Cs — Calm and Compassion — and why they only really work together. She opens with a story from leading an organisation through uncertainty which became a turning point in how she thinks about what calm leadership actually requires. She unpacks what calm really means — not the absence of emotion, but emotion...

What does it take to lead sustainably — for yourself, for your people, and for the planet? In this episode I sit down with Delphine Donné, VP and General Manager of Logitech's largest business group, Personal Work Solutions — a business worth over two billion dollars. With more than 25 years in consumer electronics and leadership experience across China, North America, and Europe, Delphine is one...

Healthy Leaders, Healthy Teams — Episode 1: The Inner Work of Leadership In this first solo episode, Ruth introduces a new series running alongside her leadership interviews: a space to explore what healthy leadership actually looks and feels like from the inside out — and to share frameworks, tools and reflections to help you grow. Ruth takes a stand for something she deeply believes: that health...

Have you ever felt like you need to pause and ask yourself: what do I really want my career to be about? That's exactly what Holly O'Driscoll did during her fourth maternity leave — and it changed the course of her career. Holly is an innovation strategist, facilitator, and founder of Ampersand Innovation. She spent over 20 years at Procter & Gamble in engineering, design, and innovation leade...

Christina Bouglass is originally from the UK and raised in Switzerland. She began her marketing career at Procter & Gamble in Geneva and spent 20 years as a marketing executive shaping some of the world’s most iconic beauty brands, working with celebrities and fashion houses. She held global, regional, and local roles at P&G, Coty, and The Wella Company, spanning every category of the beau...

 Vicky Ferrier on Writing Herself Into Being 
 - Mid-Career Reckoning, Courage, and Leading for Good What if your mid-career reckoning became an awakening — a chance to realign your strengths, values and purpose? In this episode, Ruth Kearns Wollmann speaks with Vicky Ferrier, Chief People and Commercial Officer at Konsileo — a commercial insurance firm with no managers. Vicky shares insights from...

Stephen (Shed) Shedletzky is an author, speaker, facilitator, and coach whose work is all about empowering leaders to cultivate trusting, purpose-driven workplaces . His first book, Speak Up Culture , explores how and why great leaders make it “safe and worth it” to speak up—and why it matters . In our conversation, Shed shares the formative experiences that led him to his purpose , including: 🔹...

Marina Parris is a coach who works with horses as her co-facilitators, supporting business leaders to grow in authenticity, emotional intelligence and effectiveness. Having trained as a coach in equine-facilitated learning was with Linda Kohanov, a pioneer in this field, based in Arizona, she draws on nearly two decades of experience with horses to develop leaders who are not only respected but al...

Welcome to Milestone Moments: Short extracts from my podcast interviews to inspire, encourage and equip you on your personal path to success. Founder and managing director of Kinetic Consulting, Will Hogg, has always been motivated to create opportunities for those born into less fortunate circumstances than himself. However, when his father died too young at 61, Will decided to leave his comforta...

Today’s guest, Richard Pascoe is founder, managing director and lead trainer at Making Presentations: The Science and Art of saying things brilliantly. Richard is warm, wise, and a wonderful storyteller so you’re in for a treat. He is also a great example of someone who has navigated his career in a way that has fully integrated his talents, passions and values both inside and outside work. After...

Fadzi Whande is chief of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion at the UNHCR (The UN refugees agency) in Geneva. She was born in Zimbabwe, brought up in USA, has lived on 4 continents, and refers to herself as an Afro-Aussie. Fadzi is an expert in her field, encouraging and inspiring many, many people, including me, to create inclusive spaces and open up to learning from one another whatever our backgrou...

Welcome to Milestone Moments: Short extracts from my podcast interviews to inspire, encourage and equip you on your personal path to success.   In 2015, during the failed coup in Burundi, Simon Guillebaud, founder of an NGO called Great Lakes Outreach faced a milestone moment: Would he stay, or would he take his family and flee to safety as others were doing? Surrounded by gunfire and burning road...

Welcome to Milestone Moments: Short extracts from my podcast interviews to inspire encourage and equip you on your path to success.    My first ever interview on “Your path to success” 4 years ago was with P&G Chief Sustainability Officer Virginie Hélias. In this 10-minute extract you’ll hear Virginie talk about a Milestone Moment in her journey back in 2011 when in a 20-minute meeting with th...

Jenny Rushmore founded Cashmerette 8 years ago after 15 years of working in corporate brand management. She is a smart, successful, mission-driven entrepreneur who is an amazing example of someone who has combined their talents, skills, experience and passion to make a difference in the world, and is thriving while doing it. In this podcast episode you will hear Jenny talk about: What she learned...

By the age of 35 Marisa Kamall was a successful c-suite executive at a FTSE-100 company. Then in 2021 a series of challenging events caused her to stop and question what she really wanted from life, and particularly from her career. Motivated by a renewed sense of purpose Marisa now works as a certified coach and consultant driving cultural change within organizations and empowering individuals an...

Maria de la Hera has over 25 years of experience in International Marketing, Sales and General Management with 18 of those years working in the luxury sector.  Several years ago, Maria chose to leave the corporate world and found her sweetspot as a board member. She serves on the board of advisors for several companies including Valeur Absolue perfumes and Familia Torres. In this interview, she sh...

Rebecca Wardell is a former New Zeland Olympic heptathlete and extreme cyclist who currently works at the International Olympic Committee in Lausanne. Rebecca's career so far has been quite the ride, literally and metaphorically. Her story is one of pursuing her dreams and goals through passion, adventure, perseverance, and re-invention. Rebecca has always enjoyed sport, and competing in the Olymp...

Nadine Hack has been named a “master bridge-builder” by Harvard University and IMD business school where she was the first ever female executive in residence.  It has been her life work to partner with governments, large corporations, and NGOs to enable them to solve some of their toughest challenges through the power of connectedness. Nadine's company beCause Global Consulting  helps people and o...

Bethany Foresman is a Director of Analytics & Insights at Procter & Gamble. A few years ago, Bethany was working in a team where she was well-established and respected by her business partners when she had a change of line manager. Her new boss was really good at what she did, and Bethany admired her. She both wanted to learn from her and impress her. However, her boss had a very different...

In this short 3-min clip from the end of the previous episode Ruth summarises the interaction between change and transition and gives 3 tips for navigating uncertain times in our lives. Listen to the full episode "Ruth Kearns Wollmann on the Inner & Outer Journeys of Change and Transition" to hear her talk to her husband Daniel about her own personal experience of navigating big life changes....

Ruth is a Leadership Development Coach, Facilitator and Podcaster. She loves coaching established and emerging leaders to step up to new challenges in work and life from a place of strength, authenticity and purpose. In previous roles Ruth has been a postdoctoral research psychologist, a consumer insights leader, a business executive and a pastor. Ruth's career may have had its fair share of twist...

Zaid is Chief Marketing Officer and Diversity and Inclusion Director at Channel 4 in the UK. He is an amazing leader, marketeer and strategist and has had a diverse career spanning both marketing and commercial roles in various industries. He is also on the board of the Advertising Standards Authority, the Creative Diversity Network, Water Aid and is a champion for Men's Health and Mental Health....

Lorraine Smith van Lin is an International Human Rights Lawyer who is also the Founder and Executive Director of "Tallawah, Justice for Women," an NGO that empowers women leaders and survivors of conflict and gender-based violence in the Global South. Lorraine started her legal career in Jamaica where she was born and raised. She went on to study international law, became a judge and later directo...

Sonsoles Gonzalez is the Founder & CEO of Better not Younger, a Hair Care brand for women who believe that beauty is not defined by age. https://better-notyounger.com Sonsoles has boundless energy for what she does. She launched Better not Younger nearly 4 years ago, after a successful 27 year corporate career at Procter & Gamble and L'Oreal where she worked on some of the world's biggest...

Silvia Cerolini works as a coporate director of analytics and insights. She is also the founder of Through Vicky's Eyes. Silvia's daughter Vicky was diagnosed with a rare congential disease that causes progressive blindedness at the age of 2. Silvia committed to do everything she could to help her to see for longer. 4 years ago Silvia founded "Through Vicky's Eyes" a charitable organisation dedica...