Ruth Paris MA MCC
Executive Leadership Coachingtrusted ally & "angel at my shoulder" of leaders who value integrity
About Ruth Paris MA, MCC
transformational coaching with rigour, insight & wisdom - with a touch of humour along the way
Background
With over 3,500 hours of professional coaching experience, I've been an executive and leadership coach since the early 1990s, working in partnership with leaders in an eclectic spread of industry sectors and corporate structures internationally.
I work at a generative level, seeking to stimulate fresh thinking that aligns purpose and values with intentional behaviour.
My particular expertise is in supporting people at all levels to develop congruent leadership - of themselves and others - to mobilise energy, build rewarding relationships, develop conscious influence through appropriate communications and so to generate sustainable achievement.
Clients variously describe my style as incisive, kind yet challenging and technically rigorous - experienced in a relationship of genuine trust and partnership.
In the early '90s I co-founded a niche business consultancy developing leadership, team and individual performance, during which time I worked increasingly as an executive coach and mentor. In 2007 I was a founding partner of global coaching provider Coaching on Call International, which continues to entail valuable experience in developing and managing coaching best practice for complex organisations worldwide.
I have an MA in Linguistics and Social Anthropology from Edinburgh University, am a qualified counsellor through Surrey University (1992), NLP Master Practitioner (1993), accredited coach (2001), graduate of the AC programme Applied Neuroscience for Executive Coaches (2014) and have a Diploma in Team Coaching from the Executive Coach Studio (2018).
I am a longstanding Member of the Association for Coaching and Master Certified Coach with the International Coach Federation (<3% of over 38,000 ICF credentialed coaches in the world are certified MCC).
Other training I have undertaken includes Time to Think, non-violent communication, transactional analysis, spiral dynamics, systems theory, systemic constellations, somatic coaching, embodied neuroscience, hypnosis, NLP based health and wellbeing, time line therapy, equine guided leadership, Gestalt, the bi-hemispheric brain, ontological coaching and transpersonal psychology. I integrate key principles of such learnings seamlessly into my coaching practice to support the smoothest pathway for clients' success.
I'm based in Surrey, near London, UK and undertake primarily 'virtual' coaching across the world.
For more about me, see here.
What Clients Say
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In my experience Ruth is unique amongst business coaches. She has an extraordinary ability to listen to my ideas, challenges and opportunities with
intense concentration.
Her summary of the situation and steps to move ahead are insightful and concise.
I emerge from our dialogue with renewed confidence, an ability to acknowledge and confront self-limiting beliefs and, by the end of the session, I can visualise the path that will lead to the achievement of my goals.
Over the course of a few months I worked with Ruth in some very intense and at times emotional sessions that have given me a far better understanding of why I behave and communicate with others in the way I do.
I was treated with great kindness, compassion and sensitivity through some very vulnerable moments.
I have been left with a renewed enthusiasm not only for my career but my life in general.
We could have thrashed around endlessly, getting it wrong even as we tried our hardest, if not for you.
Working with Ruth gives me real space to be fully myself, to formulate and believe my own vision with tremendous clarity. Coaching is absolutely not self-indulgent, rather an exciting journey of discovering for myself how to think ahead and plan the future I want through a process that is positive, challenging and thought provoking.
Any organisation or individual lost in a dense wood will call it a lucky day to have come upon Ruth and her clear insight and wisdom. Ruth gives the overview and re-finds your resources. You'll arrive where you want to be without damaging foliage and wildlife. She's unique.
At critical times in my career, Ruth has been the angel at my shoulder, providing a completely supportive yet rigorous space for me to get clear and determine
my best way forward.
... feeling safe with you, respected by you, encouraged and valued and seen by you. And from this place, I've been able to access real shifts and insights.
Powerful stuff.
PRIVACY POLICY
I will never give or sell your contact details to any third party, nor use them for any purpose other than to send you relevant updates, and any major announcements relating to my work. If you wish to either be removed from my contact list, or change your preferences, please contact me via the website contact form or direct at ruth@ruthparis.com.
This privacy policy sets out how Ruth Paris uses and protects any information that you give us when you use this website or, where applicable, otherwise join one of my mailing lists or become a client of Ruth Paris.
Ruth Paris is committed to ensuring that your privacy is protected. If I ask you to provide certain information by which you can be identified when using this website, then it will only be used in accordance with this privacy statement.
I may change this policy from time to time by updating this page. You should check this page from time to time to ensure that you are happy with any changes. This policy was last updated October 11th, 2018.
I may collect the following information:
name
contact information including email address
demographic information such as postcode, preferences and interests
other information relevant to professional interest in coaching
What I do with the information:
I require this information to understand your needs and provide you with a better service, and in particular for the following reasons:
Internal record keeping - this is done with strict security in line with my membership of the International Coach Federation
Improve products and services.
I may (rarely) send promotional emails about new products, special offers or other information which we think you may find interesting using the email address which you have provided. I will only do this if you have subscribed to an appropriate list.
Security
I am committed to ensuring that your information is secure. In order to prevent unauthorised access or disclosure, there are suitable physical, electronic and managerial procedures to safeguard and secure the information collected online.
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You may choose to restrict the collection or use of your personal information in the following ways:
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I will never sell, distribute or lease your personal information to third parties unless we have your permission or are required by law to do so.
You may at any time:
request details of personal information which we hold about you under the Data Protection Act 1998. A small fee may be payable.
request that we make changes to the information we hold to ensure that it is accurate and up to date. If you believe that any information we are holding on you is incorrect or incomplete, please contact us as soon as possible – we will promptly correct any information found to be incorrect.
ask that we delete your information if we do not have a good cause to retain it; or
otherwise object to the way in which we use your information.
If you wish to exercise any of these rights, or if you have any questions about our use of your information, please email us using this form. You also have a right to complain to the Information Commissioner’s Office or other appropriate regulatory authority in relation to your information held by us, and how we use it (contact details can be found here https://ico.org.uk/).