Your Path to Success with Ruth Kearns Wollmann

Your Path to Success Podcast is here to inspire, encourage and equip you on your personal leadership journey. On this podcast you’ll hear: 💡Personal stories and life lessons from accomplished leaders💡Leadership growth case studies and 💡Real-life examples of how to apply evidence-based techniques to grow your own leadership impact and presence.Ruth 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 Hosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.

Your Path to Success with Ruth Kearns Wollmann is a business podcast hosted by Ruth Kearns Wollmann, with 38 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

Ruth Kearns Wollmann hosts Your Path to Success with Ruth Kearns Wollmann, a business show with 38 episodes published.

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  Michelle Wright on Reinventing Her Professional Identity and Career Abroad

  Aug 19, 202630 min

  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 to Your Path to Success for more leadership stories and practical insights Subscribe to my LinkedIn newsletter 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 on World Radio Switzerland for over 15 years, making evidence-based health information accessible to the wider public. Find out more about HealthFirst and listen to Michelle's own podcast, Health Matters . 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 Hosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.

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

  Jun 24, 202616 minS4

  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 Book a curiosity call: yourpathtosuccess.ch/book-appointment Hosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.

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  Delphine Donné on sustainable success — for people, planet and business

  May 21, 202633 min

  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 of just 29% of women in tech who reach executive level. But what struck me most in our conversation wasn't the scale of what she leads. It was how she leads it. What we cover: The three career moments that genuinely tested her — including getting close to burnout — and what she learned about herself each time How a single consumer insight transformed her portfolio, grew her team from 28% to over 50% women, and delivered stellar business results Why managing yourself first is not optional — it's the foundation of everything else The three leadership lessons she'd pass on to anyone building a long career: passion, perseverance, and compassion Listen and connect: 🎧 Enjoyed this episode? Subscribe to Your Path to Success for more leadership stories and practical insights 📩 Subscribe to my LinkedIn newsletter for monthly leadership insights 📅 Looking to build healthy leaders and healthy teams? Book a curiosity call to hear more about how I can help More about Delphine: Delphine Donné is VP and General Manager of Logitech's Personal Work Solutions, the company's largest business group. A people-first leader with over 25 years in consumer electronics, she has lived and worked in China, North America, and Europe, leading global teams and driving innovation across some of the world's most recognised tech brands. Under her leadership, her organisation has grown to 56% female — against a global industry average of 26% — and hosts over 30 nationalities. She has led Logitech's sustainability agenda within her business group, taking recycled plastic from zero to over 80% of products, and helping Logitech reach the top 1% of sustainable companies globally. Delphine is a mother of two and a passionate advocate for more equal and inclusive leadership in tech. Hosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.

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  Healthy Leaders, Healthy Teams — Episode 1: The Inner Work of Leadership

  Apr 23, 202610 minS2

  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. yourpathtosuccess.ch Book a curiosity call: yourpathtosuccess.ch/book-appointment Hosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.

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  Holly O’Driscoll on Unleashing the potential of people AND ideas

  Mar 5, 202636 min

  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 leadership before launching her own business. During that pivotal maternity leave, she turned the design thinking tools she used with clients on herself and asked: what's my why? Her answer — unleashing the potential of people AND ideas — became the north star that guided everything that followed, including the founding of her company. In this episode, Holly shares her journey from engineering to design to entrepreneurship, and the principles she learned along the way about asking for what you want, prototyping your next chapter, and redefining success on your own terms. Resources: Finding Your Why 1. Explore the approach Holly used The book Designing Your Life by Bill Burnett and Dave Evans is a great starting point. You can explore their resources, including the Odyssey Plan framework, at Stanford University's Life Design Lab: https://lifedesignlab.stanford.edu/resources 2. Join me for a live online session Free 75-minute Connect to Your Purpose session on 2 April at 8am CET. Move your purpose from concept to lived reality — we'll work with what you already know and go deeper, reconnecting to when you've felt most aligned and exploring what that tells you about who you are and the impact you have. Register here: https://yourpathtosuccess.ch/events/ Want to stay connected? Subscribe to Your Path to Success wherever you listen to podcasts to hear more leadership stories and practical insights. If you're curious about how coaching could support your own leadership journey, you can book a free 30-minute curiosity call at https://yourpathtosuccess.ch/book-appointment — or explore workshops and resources on the site. Hosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.

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