Experience

Ruta’s unique skill is supporting people and organisations through major change. She has successfully led large complex change programs andprocess re-engineering across many business units and cultures.

Ruta’s international HR experience includes Asia, North America and Europe, opening offices in New York and Luxembourg, and postings in Hong Kong and Shanghai. She was the first female manager in a coal generating station in Canada. Moving to Australia, Ruta established a new function for Myer and supported acquisition integration. Ruta then moved to Hong Kong and led the global HR function for the merchant bank arm of HSBC, across 14 countries.

Continuing her fascination with how to integrate, motivate people and drive organisational change, Ruta returned to Australia and joined AMP, implementing an international HR function and integrating insurance processing. Ruta then went to Westpac where she centralised mortgage processing and introduced culture management. Most recently, at IBM, Ruta merged two companies, set up IBM’s first Asia Pacific Service Centre and integrated recruitment across 17 countries, with significant savings.

Mentoring and coaching individuals for many years, Ruta formally certified as an executive coach over a 3 year program. Ruta is passionate about supporting women to attain leadership positions and board appointments. She is a member of the NSW Premier’s Advisory Council on Women and Women on Boards.

In her coaching, Ruta listens intently, drawing on her business understanding and coach training and often surprising clients with her intuition. She works towards helping people become the best they can be. Ruta has helped executives to improve sales, get promoted, balance work and life, plan next career steps, develop leadership capabilities, identify and overcome career derailer behaviours, build high performing teams, transition into a new role, and manage a difficult boss.

Coaching & behavioural science qualifications

• Certified Professional Co-Active Coach (Coaches Training Institute), ICF accredited, 2007
  
• Collective Leadership (PresenceAtWork), 2011

Business qualifications and business experience (selected)

• Graduate, Australian Institute of Company Directors, 2010
  
• MBA, York University, Toronto, Canada, 1979
  
• Masters of Library Science (Business Libraries), University of Toronto, 1974
  
• Bachelor of Arts, University of Toronto, 1972
  
• Human Resources Director, IBM Australia and New Zealand
  
• General Manager Human Resources, Westpac
  
• Senior Manager Human Resources, AMP
  
• Associate Director, Human Resources, Wardley Ltd, Hong Kong (HSBC Group)
  
• Human Resources and Administration Executive, Jardine Engineering (Hong Kong)
  
• Corporate Remuneration Manager, Myer Ltd

Selected client organisations

Clients include: IBM, Telstra, Queensland University of Technology, Talent International, AstraZeneca, Spinifex Group.

Registrations, Memberships and Affiliations

• Member, International Coaching Federation (ICF)
  
• Member, Australian Institute of Company Directors (AICD)
  
• Member, Women on Boards
  
• Member, NSW Premier’s Advisory Council on Women

Instrument Accreditations

Genos EI, Investment in Excellence (Lou Tice), Leadership Styles and Organisation Climate (Hay McBer), Team Diagnostic Assessment Team Coaching International (TCI)