Healthy Leaders, Healthy Teams — Episode 1: The Inner Work of Leadership
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 healthy leaders create healthy teams, and healthy teams create better, more sustainable impact in the world.
She introduces the 6 Cs of healthy leadership — Calm, Compassion, Curiosity, Clarity, Connection and Courage — and explores what these look like in practice, through the contrast between recognisable patterns of unhealthy leadership and what becomes possible when leaders do their inner work.
She also gets personal — sharing her own experience of the parts of her that would rather hide than go public with a point of view, and what it took to record this episode.
The episode closes with a reflection exercise — which you'll want to listen to first before coming back to these questions in your own time.
Reflection exercise — for your journal or a quiet moment:
What experiences from your past have shaped who you are as a leader today?
On the positive side, you might think of your best boss, your favourite assignment, or a place or community where you felt truly at home as yourself. What did those experiences teach you about who you are at your best? In what ways do they still show up in how you lead today?
On the more difficult side, you might think of an experience that was harsh, hurtful or humiliating — a moment where you came away with a quiet promise to yourself never to let that happen again. What did that teach you — or your nervous system — about what to watch out for? In what ways might that still be showing up in how you lead today?
There is no right answer. The invitation is simply to notice.
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.
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