Your Path to Success with Ruth Kearns Wollmann

About Your Path to Success with Ruth Kearns Wollmann

Your Path to Success is here to inspire, encourage and equip you on your leadership journey. On this podcast you'll hear: 💡 Personal stories and life lessons from accomplished leaders 💡 Honest conversations about the moments that tested them — and what they learned 💡 Practical, evidence-based ways to grow your own leadership impact and presence, from the inside out Ruth Kearns Wollmann is an ICF-accredited professional coach and leadership development facilitator with a background as a cognitive psychologist, business executive and organisational leader in corporate and non-profit organisations. She believes the leaders who make the greatest impact are those who lead from a centred, integrated place — understanding their own patterns, hopes and fears deeply enough to respond rather than react under pressure. Ruth partners with established and emerging leaders ready to lead differently: breaking through their own ceiling, becoming a secure base for others, and making their greatest impact yet from a place of strength, authenticity and purpose. To find out more about Ruth's work with individuals and organisations, visit yourpathtosuccess.ch (http://yourpathtosuccess.ch) Hosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.

Publisher

Ruth Kearns Wollmann PhD, PCC

Category

business

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

26 Nov 2019

Latest episode

7 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

40 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   7 Oct 2026

   Healthy Leaders, Healthy Teams: Who You Are Is How You Lead — Self-Knowledge as a Pillar of Your Personal Leadership Journey

   Healthy Leaders, Healthy Teams — Who You Are Is How You Lead: Self-Knowledge as a Pillar of Your Personal Leadership Journey Have you ever felt like you were not being seen for who you truly are? In this third solo episode of the Healthy Leaders, Healthy Teams series, Ruth explores why being confident in who you are — and who you are not — is a key quality of leadership, and how getting to know who you are at your core can become a pillar of growth on your personal leadership journey. Perhaps you feel overlooked or underestimated at work, or that your values no longer fit your organisation. Or perhaps you're in transition, and asking yourself what you really want. Whatever your situation, knowing who you are allows you to step out of your comfort zone without losing your sense of integrity. And as you do that, you create the conditions for those you lead to do the same. Ruth introduces the idea of your Core Self — who you are at your best — as three overlapping circles: your strengths, your values, and your personality. At the centre, where they meet, is your purpose: what you bring to the world. Getting to know your Core Self is part of the inner work of leadership — the work of knowing and leading yourself before leading others. She looks back at Dr Michelle Wright's story from the last episode through this lens, and at how Michelle’s clarity about who she was, and who she was not, helped her navigate a major career transition. Ruth then turns to leadership more broadly. Knowing who you are and what you stand for is a key part of healthy leadership — creating a secure base from which you, and the people on your team, can stretch outside your comfort zone. She shares the story of a General Manager at Procter & Gamble whose leadership gave her a secure base to grow. A reflection exercise to come back to There is a guided reflection in the middle of the episode [starting at 08:07]. Ruth invites you to reflect on a situation of resonance with who you are, and one of dissonance — and to get curious about which of your strengths, values and personality traits are expressed, or held back, in each. You may want to re-listen to this part and journal on it in a quiet moment. Coming up next in Healthy Leaders, Healthy Teams — after next month's leadership interview — Ruth looks at the other side of self-knowledge: how you show up under pressure and criticism. If you'd like some support discovering more about your strengths, values and personality, and how they can guide your personal leadership journey, you can book a curiosity call at yourpathtosuccess.ch/book-appointment (http://yourpathtosuccess.ch/book-appointment) Ruth Kearns Wollmann is an ICF-accredited professional coach and leadership development facilitator with a background as a cognitive psychologist, business executive and organisational leader in corporate and non-profit organisations. She believes the leaders who make the greatest impact are those who lead from a centred, integrated place — understanding their own patterns, hopes and fears deeply enough to respond rather than react under pressure. Ruth partners with established and emerging leaders ready to lead differently: breaking through their own ceiling, becoming a secure base for others, and making their greatest impact yet from a place of strength, authenticity and purpose. To find out more about Ruth's work with individuals and organisations, visit yourpathtosuccess.ch (http://yourpathtosuccess.ch) Hosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy (https://ausha.co/privacy-policy) for more information.

2. 

   19 Aug 2026

   Michelle Wright on Reinventing Her Professional Identity and Career Abroad

   What does it take to reinvent your professional identity in a new country — while still holding onto everything that made you good at your job in the first place? This episode is a story of professional reinvention: Dr Michelle Wright, a British-qualified GP moved to the Lake Geneva region 22 years ago, leaving behind a busy East London practice to follow her husband's career. Today she's a respected health communicator and educator with over 15 years on Swiss radio, co-founder and director of HealthFirst, and still practises medicine at the International Labour Organization. What I loved about our conversation was hearing how Michelle navigated her professional reinvention — building on the knowledge and skills she'd developed in general practice, weaving in her early passion as a communicator and people person, and courageously stepping into new territory as she founded a company. What we cover: What it took to leave a career she’d already established and start afresh in a new environment Her professional reinvention: How she developed herself and her career at the intersection of her strengths, passions and a true consumer need Learning "the leadership side of things" — hiring, delegating, running a company — as someone who is, in her own words, “a doctor, not a business person” What she's most proud of over the past 20-plus years in Switzerland Listen and connect 🎧 Subscribe (https://podcast.ausha.co/your-path-to-success-with-ruth-kearns-wollmann/) to Your Path to Success for more leadership stories and practical insights 📩 Subscribe to my LinkedIn newsletter (https://www.linkedin.com/newsletters/your-path-to-success-7335312466249232384/) for monthly leadership insights More about Michelle: Dr Michelle Wright is a British-qualified General Practitioner with over 25 years of experience. Based in Switzerland, she works part-time as a staff doctor at the International Labour Organization in Geneva, supporting the physical and psychological health of employees. She is also Company Director of health education company HealthFirst, which she co-founded in 2012, and a certified Lifestyle Medicine practitioner. A skilled health communicator, Michelle hosted Health Matters (https://open.spotify.com/show/4berUtSE6BMD0vukjr4sMH) on World Radio Switzerland for over 15 years, making evidence-based health information accessible to the wider public. Find out more about HealthFirst (https://healthfirst.ch/) and listen to Michelle's own podcast, Health Matters (https://open.spotify.com/show/4berUtSE6BMD0vukjr4sMH). Ruth Kearns Wollmann is an ICF-accredited professional coach and leadership development facilitator with a background as a cognitive psychologist, business executive and organisational leader in corporate and non-profit organisations. She partners with established and emerging leaders as they seek to navigate their path to success from a place of strength, authenticity and purpose. To find out more about Ruth's work with individuals and organisations visit her website at: yourpathtosuccess.ch (http://yourpathtosuccess.ch) Hosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy (https://ausha.co/privacy-policy) for more information.

3. 

   24 Jun 2026

   Healthy Leaders, Healthy Teams — Episode 2: Why you need Calm AND Compassion

   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 sufficiently processed that a leader can be present for others. Unfortunately, not all of us grew up in environments that modelled healthy emotion regulation. In fact, only 35% of Americans say that, as children, they knew a compassionate, nonjudgmental adult. The good news, however, is that this can be learned — and learning it starts with understanding calm's essential partner: compassion. Ruth draws a clear line between compassion and empathy, and explains why calm without compassion can land as cold or judgemental — especially to someone who isn't expecting it. The episode closes with a practical pathway: how the 6Cs offer a sequence for navigating strong emotions in the moment — calm, compassion, curiosity, clarity, connection and courage — so that leaders can hold space for others without losing themselves in the process. Reflection — for your journal or a quiet moment: In what situations do you most need to cultivate more calm? Where does compassion — for yourself or for others — need more space? What support or practice will you put in place to help you navigate your emotions when it counts? There is no right answer. The invitation is simply to notice. Take it further — Join Ruth’s free 90-minute mid-year guided reflection on Friday 26th June 2026 It's a chance to pause, take stock of the first half of the year, and step into the second half with more clarity. Online, free, and open to all. Register here and choose your slot (8am or 12pm CET) to receive details of how to join. yourpathtosuccess.ch/events About Ruth Ruth Kearns Wollmann is an ICF-accredited executive and leadership coach and facilitator. Over the past decade she has worked with senior leaders and their teams across a wide range of organisations, helping them do the deeper inner work that creates lasting change — not just better behaviours, but a more integrated, grounded and courageous way of leading. Her path to this work has been anything but linear — but there's always been a thread. She started as a cognitive psychology researcher, fascinated by how people think, learn and change. That curiosity took her into the corporate world, where she spent 14 years at Procter & Gamble as a business executive — and where she discovered that the determining factor in her own success wasn't strategy or insight, but the ability to lead herself and others. That realisation never left her. It led her into a leadership role in the non-profit sector, and eventually into launching her independent coaching practice — bringing research, lived experience and over a decade of practice together in one place. She believes healthy leaders create healthy teams. And the world's biggest challenges need leaders operating from their truest, most integrated selves. yourpathtosuccess.ch (http://yourpathtosuccess.ch) Book a curiosity call: yourpathtosuccess.ch/book-appointment (http://yourpathtosuccess.ch/book-appointment) Hosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy (https://ausha.co/privacy-policy) for more information.

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