Your Path to Success with Ruth Kearns Wollmann

Lorraine Smith van Lin is an International Human Rights Lawyer who is Founder and Executive Director of Tallawah, Justice for Women.  In this special episode recorded on International Women's day 2022 Lorraine shares the vision and purpose of Tallawah, an organisation which exists to empower Women Leaders and Survivors of conflict and gender-based violence in the global south. She talks about the...

Barbara Lax is the founder and CEO of Little Green House: A group of multilingual pre-school day care centres in Switzerland with a focus on creativity, play and being in touch with nature. The idea for Little Green House was born in 2010 when Barbara was working in a large corporation. She launched the first Little Green House in 2012. It was a huge success. Little Green House was in the top thir...

David Brühlmann is a scientist, a humanitarian and a published author. He left his successful corporate career in the biotech industry nearly 2 years ago to lead an education programme for an NGO in Cambodia. Since then he's gone from strength to strength. Not only has he made a significant impact through ICF Cambodia's education programme (ICF = International Christian Fellowship), but he has als...

Sylvie Moreau has a track record of successfully managing multi-billion dollar businesses over her 25+ year career, most recently as President of Coty Professional Beauty.  Sylvie is high energy and full of positive, practical wisdom about success and fulfilment in work and life. In this interview she shares: How she defines success and what she has learned about how to create a fulfilling life He...

Gill Whitty-Collins is a Consultant, Board Chair, expert in business & Brand building and former Senior Vice President at the consumer goods giant P&G where she led the Beauty Care business in EMEA. She is also a self-confessed "Gender Equality warrior" and published author of the book published author of the book "Why Men Win at Work."  In this interview Gill talks about some of the perso...

Will Hogg founded Kinetic Consulting in 2008 with a vision to create, build and promote meaningful connections between business and social impact. He brought with him 10 years strategic leadership experience in P&G, and 7 in the British Army. 12 years later, Kinetic continues to grow from strength to strength as Will and his team take "Vision to Action" for an impressive list of international...

Jane Hoskisson, Director of Learning and Development for IATA is a wonderful example of someone who leads with authenticity and authority. She is genuinely warm and she is courageous in showing up to reality both in herself as a leader and in her industry to drive change for good.  She says of herself: "The red thread throughout my career seems to be working in traditionally male-dominated industr...

Dominique moved countries 4 times with her family during her successful 30-year career at P&G, sometimes for her husband’s job and sometimes for hers. Now a board member and consultant, she recently published a book called “Family and Career: What an Adventure!" This interview is packed with stories, examples and principles for leadership at work and in your personal life. One of the key theme...

In this episode recorded in April I talk with Will Hogg and Robert Jongstra about How to lead through an existential crisis and move from surviving to thriving. Will founded Kinetic Consuting 10 years ago after a career as an HR leader in Procter & Gamble and previously in the British Army. Robert is Executive Chairman of Kinetic and is 30-year P&G veteran with experience of leading multip...

In this episode of my special series of “Conversations on leading through the Covid-19 Crisis" I talk to Erin Clymer Lessard about decision-making in turbulent times. Erin is an Executive Coach and Author of Decision Flow: the authentic leader's guide to making the right decision when the stakes are high. We discuss some of the common challenges leaders face when making decisions, how to overcome...

During the past few months we have all been adjusting to a world impacted by the global Covid-19 pandemic, both personally and professionally. As leaders we need to step up to lead ourselves, our teams and our organisations through an uncertain and shifting landscape, while holding the reality of the personal cost of this situation to so many.  That's why I decided to invite leaders and experts to...

I was fortunate enough to be able to interview today's guest, Simon Guillebaud , back in October 2018 about his take on leadership and success after 20 years working in Burundi as a social entrepreneur.  Simon knows what it's like to take personal risk for the sake of a greater cause. He left a comfortable life in the UK to go to Burundi in 1999 when it was considered one of the most dangerous pla...

In today's episode I interview Virginie Hélias, the chief sustainability officer of the consumer goods giant Procter & Gamble, about her leadership journey and the principles that she lives by. Eight years ago Virginie decided that she was going to make sustainability her job. Two weeks after making this decision she wrote a job description for a corporate sustainability role and booked a 20-m...