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Your Path to Success with Ruth Kearns WollmannChristina Bouglass on Reimagining Purpose after BurnoutChristina Bouglass is originally from the UK and raised in Switzerland. She began her marketing career at Procter & Gamble in Geneva and spent 20 years as a marketing executive shaping some of the world’s most iconic beauty brands, working with celebrities and fashion houses. She held global, regional, and local roles at P&G, Coty, and The Wella Company, spanning every category of the beauty industry.Then, in Christina's own words:"After a toxic private equity takeover, the absence of values and purpose my work led to burnout — and to a complete re-e...
2025-10-1033 min
Your Path to Success with Ruth Kearns WollmannVicky Ferrier on Writing Herself Into Being: Mid-Career Reckoning, Courage and Leading for Good Vicky Ferrier on Writing Herself Into Being
- Mid-Career Reckoning, Courage, and Leading for GoodWhat if your mid-career reckoning became an awakening — a chance to realign your strengths, values and purpose?In this episode, Ruth Kearns Wollmann speaks with Vicky Ferrier, Chief People and Commercial Officer at Konsileo — a commercial insurance firm with no managers. Vicky shares insights from her rich and varied career. In particular, she shares how she navigated the messy middle of her career, rediscovered what truly mattered, and began writing her way...
2025-05-2839 min
Your Path to Success with Ruth Kearns WollmannShed Shedletzky on Leadership that Makes a Difference & Speak Up CultureStephen (Shed) Shedletzky is an author, speaker, facilitator, and coach whose work is all about empowering leaders to cultivate trusting, purpose-driven workplaces.His first book, Speak Up Culture, explores how and why great leaders make it “safe and worth it” to speak up—and why it matters.In our conversation, Shed shares the formative experiences that led him to his purpose, including:🔹 Growing up with a stutter and how it shaped his perspective🔹 Witnessing 1,000 colleagues let go on his fi...
2025-02-1444 min
Your Path to Success with Ruth Kearns WollmannMarina Parris on Lessons from Horses: Showing Up Authentically and PowerfullyMarina Parris is a coach who works with horses as her co-facilitators, supporting business leaders to grow in authenticity, emotional intelligence and effectiveness. Having trained as a coach in equine-facilitated learning was with Linda Kohanov, a pioneer in this field, based in Arizona, she draws on nearly two decades of experience with horses to develop leaders who are not only respected but also genuinely followed. But while today, Marina could not imagine a life without horses, her career started on a very different path. In our conversation she tells the story of her journey...
2024-12-1736 min
Your Path to Success with Ruth Kearns WollmannMILESTONE MOMENTS 3: Will Hogg on the Wake-Up Calls that Drove His Vision into ActionWelcome to Milestone Moments: Short extracts from my podcast interviews to inspire, encourage and equip you on your personal path to success.Founder and managing director of Kinetic Consulting, Will Hogg, has always been motivated to create opportunities for those born into less fortunate circumstances than himself. However, when his father died too young at 61, Will decided to leave his comfortable corporate job to start his own company determined to fulfil his dream.Nine years later he had another wake-up call. As he lay in a hospital bed recovering from brain surgery...
2024-11-1911 min
Your Path to Success with Ruth Kearns WollmannRichard Pascoe on the Path to his True Calling, and the Art of Saying Things BrilliantlyToday’s guest, Richard Pascoe is founder, managing director and lead trainer at Making Presentations: The Science and Art of saying things brilliantly. Richard is warm, wise, and a wonderful storyteller so you’re in for a treat. He is also a great example of someone who has navigated his career in a way that has fully integrated his talents, passions and values both inside and outside work.After 18 years at Procter and Gamble working in Sales, Consumer Insights and finally Corporate training, he managed to pluck up the cour...
2024-09-1835 min
Your Path to Success with Ruth Kearns WollmannFadzi Whande on "Do it afraid": A journey of courageFadzi Whande is chief of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion at the UNHCR (The UN refugees agency) in Geneva. She was born in Zimbabwe, brought up in USA, has lived on 4 continents, and refers to herself as an Afro-Aussie.Fadzi is an expert in her field, encouraging and inspiring many, many people, including me, to create inclusive spaces and open up to learning from one another whatever our background. In this interview, Fadzi talks about her personal and professional journey. She begins by talking about how her life experiences have...
2024-05-0234 min
Your Path to Success with Ruth Kearns WollmannMILESTONE MOMENTS 2: Simon Guillebaud on choosing to stay in a conflict zone and take a stand for non-violenceWelcome to Milestone Moments: Short extracts from my podcast interviews to inspire, encourage and equip you on your personal path to success. In 2015, during the failed coup in Burundi, Simon Guillebaud, founder of an NGO called Great Lakes Outreach faced a milestone moment: Would he stay, or would he take his family and flee to safety as others were doing? Surrounded by gunfire and burning roadblocks he decided to stay. He then gathered his leaders in a room, and together they decided to use their influence to advocate for peace a...
2024-03-2110 min
Your Path to Success with Ruth Kearns WollmannMILESTONE MOMENTS 1: Virginie Hélias on creating her Chief Sustainability Officer role in P&GWelcome to Milestone Moments: Short extracts from my podcast interviews to inspire encourage and equip you on your path to success. My first ever interview on “Your path to success” 4 years ago was with P&G Chief Sustainability Officer Virginie Hélias.In this 10-minute extract you’ll hear Virginie talk about a Milestone Moment in her journey back in 2011 when in a 20-minute meeting with the CEO of P&G she laid out the rationale for appointing a Chief Sustainability Officer and proposed herself for the job. She explains the importance of having abs...
2023-12-1509 min
Your Path to Success with Ruth Kearns WollmannJenny Rushmore on founding a mission-led business after a corporate careerJenny Rushmore founded Cashmerette 8 years ago after 15 years of working in corporate brand management.
She is a smart, successful, mission-driven entrepreneur who is an amazing example of someone who has combined their talents, skills, experience and passion to make a difference in the world, and is thriving while doing it.
In this podcast episode you will hear Jenny talk about:
What she learned from the first part of her career
How she made the shift to become an entrepreneur and founder of a mission-led business
The advice she...
2023-11-0136 min
Your Path to Success with Ruth Kearns WollmannMarisa Kamall on finding purpose through adversityBy the age of 35 Marisa Kamall was a successful c-suite executive at a FTSE-100 company. Then in 2021 a series of challenging events caused her to stop and question what she really wanted from life, and particularly from her career.
Motivated by a renewed sense of purpose Marisa now works as a certified coach and consultant driving cultural change within organizations and empowering individuals and teams to overcome barriers and realise their full potential.
In this episode you'll hear us talk about how Marisa established herself in the first stage o...
2023-07-1038 min
Your Path to Success with Ruth Kearns WollmannMaria de la Hera on Embracing Your ChoicesMaria de la Hera has over 25 years of experience in International Marketing, Sales and General Management with 18 of those years working in the luxury sector.
Several years ago, Maria chose to leave the corporate world and found her sweetspot as a board member. She serves on the board of advisors for several companies including Valeur Absolue perfumes and Familia Torres.
In this interview, she shares with me how she navigated her career over the past 30 years and how she made and embraced choices at each stage. Her story took u...
2023-06-1633 min
Your Path to Success with Ruth Kearns WollmannRebecca Wardell on the Power of Audacious GoalsRebecca Wardell is a former New Zeland Olympic heptathlete and extreme cyclist who currently works at the International Olympic Committee in Lausanne.
Rebecca's career so far has been quite the ride, literally and metaphorically. Her story is one of pursuing her dreams and goals through passion, adventure, perseverance, and re-invention.
Rebecca has always enjoyed sport, and competing in the Olympics was a childhood dream. After leaving school she focused on athletics, but it was only in 2004, having missed out qualifying for 400m hurdles in Athens, that she chose to...
2023-05-0531 min
Your Path to Success with Ruth Kearns WollmannThe Power of Connectedness with Nadine HackNadine Hack has been named a “master bridge-builder” by Harvard University and IMD business school where she was the first ever female executive in residence.
It has been her life work to partner with governments, large corporations, and NGOs to enable them to solve some of their toughest challenges through the power of connectedness.
Nadine's company beCause Global Consulting helps people and organizations connect with their core purpose and each other. It's sister nonprofit Global Citizens Circle convenes diverse, intergenerational, cross-sectoral dialogue to find sustainable solutions and create constructive change...
2022-12-2031 min
Your Path to Success with Ruth Kearns WollmannLearning to show up as your best self at work with Bethany ForesmanBethany Foresman is a Director of Analytics & Insights at Procter & Gamble.
A few years ago, Bethany was working in a team where she was well-established and respected by her business partners when she had a change of line manager. Her new boss was really good at what she did, and Bethany admired her. She both wanted to learn from her and impress her. However, her boss had a very different profile in terms of strengths, and Bethany found herself losing her confidence in her own ability to add value.
It's not...
2022-09-3025 min
Your Path to Success with Ruth Kearns WollmannSummary Clip from Ruth Kearns Wollmann on Change & TransitionIn this short 3-min clip from the end of the previous episode Ruth summarises the interaction between change and transition and gives 3 tips for navigating uncertain times in our lives.
Listen to the full episode "Ruth Kearns Wollmann on the Inner & Outer Journeys of Change and Transition" to hear her talk to her husband Daniel about her own personal experience of navigating big life changes.
If you'd like to find out more about Ruth's work and upcoming events check out her website at yourpathtosuccess.chHosted...
2022-08-3002 minYour Path to Success with Ruth Kearns WollmannRuth Kearns Wollmann on the Outer & Inner Journeys of Change & TransitionRuth is a Leadership Development Coach, Facilitator and Podcaster. She loves coaching established and emerging leaders to step up to new challenges in work and life from a place of strength, authenticity and purpose.
In previous roles Ruth has been a postdoctoral research psychologist, a consumer insights leader, a business executive and a pastor. Ruth's career may have had its fair share of twists and turns, but there is core thread: Her passion for understanding people and empowering them to show up more fully, stand up for what matters, and step up to make...
2022-08-1835 min
Your Path to Success with Ruth Kearns WollmannZaid Al-Qassab on How to Navigate your Path to a Successful CareerZaid is Chief Marketing Officer and Diversity and Inclusion Director at Channel 4 in the UK. He is an amazing leader, marketeer and strategist and has had a diverse career spanning both marketing and commercial roles in various industries. He is also on the board of the Advertising Standards Authority, the Creative Diversity Network, Water Aid and is a champion for Men's Health and Mental Health.
You will discover in our conversation that Zaid clearly loves what he does and has built a diverse and fulfilling career around what he enjoys, what he is good at...
2022-07-0833 min
Your Path to Success with Ruth Kearns WollmannLorraine Smith van Lin on Finding her Voice and Empowering Victims to find theirsLorraine Smith van Lin is an International Human Rights Lawyer who is also the Founder and Executive Director of "Tallawah, Justice for Women," an NGO that empowers women leaders and survivors of conflict and gender-based violence in the Global South.
Lorraine started her legal career in Jamaica where she was born and raised. She went on to study international law, became a judge and later director of the international bar association in the Hague. As Lorraine continued through her legal career she became increasingly frustrated with well-intentioned systems that didn’t work for victims. Her...
2022-05-2433 min
Your Path to Success with Ruth Kearns WollmannSonsoles Gonzalez on launching a business in her 50s and busting the myths about agingSonsoles Gonzalez is the Founder & CEO of Better not Younger, a Hair Care brand for women who believe that beauty is not defined by age. https://better-notyounger.com
Sonsoles has boundless energy for what she does. She launched Better not Younger nearly 4 years ago, after a successful 27 year corporate career at Procter & Gamble and L'Oreal where she worked on some of the world's biggest Beauty Brands.
In this conversation we talk about her transition from the corporate beauty world to entrepreneurship. In particular:
Her experience of launching a bu...
2022-04-1233 min
Your Path to Success with Ruth Kearns WollmannSilvia Cerolini on Applying your Skills to have an Impact for the Greater GoodSilvia Cerolini works as a coporate director of analytics and insights. She is also the founder of Through Vicky's Eyes.
Silvia's daughter Vicky was diagnosed with a rare congential disease that causes progressive blindedness at the age of 2. Silvia committed to do everything she could to help her to see for longer. 4 years ago Silvia founded "Through Vicky's Eyes" a charitable organisation dedicated to helping Vicky and children like her see for longer.
Silvia's journey is a remarkable one. She has raised more than 1 million US dollars for research p...
2022-03-2226 min
Your Path to Success with Ruth Kearns WollmannLorraine Smith van Lin on Tallawah - Justice for WomenLorraine Smith van Lin is an International Human Rights Lawyer who is Founder and Executive Director of Tallawah, Justice for Women.
In this special episode recorded on International Women's day 2022 Lorraine shares the vision and purpose of Tallawah, an organisation which exists to empower Women Leaders and Survivors of conflict and gender-based violence in the global south.
She talks about the 3 pillars of Tallawah: Connect women, equip them to lead, and amplify their voices. She also shares why and how you can support women and children who are victims o...
2022-03-0818 min
Your Path to Success with Ruth Kearns WollmannBarbara Lax on how Growth Mindset fuelled her journey as an Entrepreneur & CEOBarbara Lax is the founder and CEO of Little Green House: A group of multilingual pre-school day care centres in Switzerland with a focus on creativity, play and being in touch with nature.
The idea for Little Green House was born in 2010 when Barbara was working in a large corporation. She launched the first Little Green House in 2012. It was a huge success. Little Green House was in the top third of fastest growing businesses in Europe between 2012 and 2015. Today there are 6 Little Green Houses in Switzerland. Barbara has won many accolades as an e...
2021-12-0332 min
Your Path to Success with Ruth Kearns WollmannDavid Brühlmann on taking the leap from Corporate Scientist to Humanitarian, Entrepreneur and AuthorDavid Brühlmann is a scientist, a humanitarian and a published author. He left his successful corporate career in the biotech industry nearly 2 years ago to lead an education programme for an NGO in Cambodia. Since then he's gone from strength to strength. Not only has he made a significant impact through ICF Cambodia's education programme (ICF = International Christian Fellowship), but he has also set up his own biotech consultancy and become a published author of a book for Christian Singles called "Single for a Season."
During this interview he shares some of what he...
2021-07-1530 min
Your Path to Success with Ruth Kearns WollmannSylvie Moreau on Leading with Head, Hands & Heart and Creating a Fulfilling Life.Sylvie Moreau has a track record of successfully managing multi-billion dollar businesses over her 25+ year career, most recently as President of Coty Professional Beauty.
Sylvie is high energy and full of positive, practical wisdom about success and fulfilment in work and life. In this interview she shares:
How she defines success and what she has learned about how to create a fulfilling life
Her leadership style and her aspiration to lead with "Head, Hands & Heart"
How she has maintained her passion throughout her career and her purpose and vision for the future.
2021-06-1540 min
Your Path to Success with Ruth Kearns WollmannGill Whitty-Collins on Strengths-Based Leadership & How to make Gender Inequality HistoryGill Whitty-Collins is a Consultant, Board Chair, expert in business & Brand building and former Senior Vice President at the consumer goods giant P&G where she led the Beauty Care business in EMEA. She is also a self-confessed "Gender Equality warrior" and published author of the book published author of the book "Why Men Win at Work."
In this interview Gill talks about some of the personal leadership lessons she learned during her successful 26-year career at P&G, and what drove her to take a stand to make gender inequality history.
Listen on to h...
2021-04-2943 min
Your Path to Success with Ruth Kearns WollmannWill Hogg on the Doing & Being of Great LeadershipWill Hogg founded Kinetic Consulting in 2008 with a vision to create, build and promote meaningful connections between business and social impact. He brought with him 10 years strategic leadership experience in P&G, and 7 in the British Army. 12 years later, Kinetic continues to grow from strength to strength as Will and his team take "Vision to Action" for an impressive list of international clients.
So what has driven Will’s path to success?
In this interview, recorded in September 2019, Will demonstrates some timeless aspects of Great Leadership: Balancing vision and action, relationships and process, being and doin...
2020-12-1529 min
Your Path to Success with Ruth Kearns WollmannJane Hoskisson on how the “can’ts” in our lives shape us as leadersJane Hoskisson, Director of Learning and Development for IATA is a wonderful example of someone who leads with authenticity and authority. She is genuinely warm and she is courageous in showing up to reality both in herself as a leader and in her industry to drive change for good.
She says of herself: "The red thread throughout my career seems to be working in traditionally male-dominated industries. I've worked in Tobacco, Oil, Pharma, and now Aviation. All of them have challenges around sustainability and diversity, and as a protagonist for both, I have always felt it is b...
2020-11-2036 min
Your Path to Success with Ruth Kearns WollmannDominique Barral on Finding your Voice & Success in Family & CareerDominique moved countries 4 times with her family during her successful 30-year career at P&G, sometimes for her husband’s job and sometimes for hers. Now a board member and consultant, she recently published a book called “Family and Career: What an Adventure!"
This interview is packed with stories, examples and principles for leadership at work and in your personal life.
One of the key themes of our discussion was knowing yourself and how understanding your strengths, your values and your style helps you to become a strong authentic leader, make life choices consistent with your...
2020-10-0230 min
Your Path to Success with Ruth Kearns WollmannLeading through Covid-19 - Will Hogg & Robert Jongstra on How to lead through an existential crisis and move from surviving to thriving.In this episode recorded in April I talk with Will Hogg and Robert Jongstra about How to lead through an existential crisis and move from surviving to thriving.
Will founded Kinetic Consuting 10 years ago after a career as an HR leader in Procter & Gamble and previously in the British Army. Robert is Executive Chairman of Kinetic and is 30-year P&G veteran with experience of leading multiple billion dollar businesses.
During the interview you’ll hear us talk about:
🎯Leading the business and how to balance the short and long-term needs
🎯Leading...
2020-07-2230 min
Your Path to Success with Ruth Kearns WollmannLeading through Covid-19 - Erin Clymer Lessard on Decision-making in Turbulent TimesIn this episode of my special series of “Conversations on leading through the Covid-19 Crisis" I talk to Erin Clymer Lessard about decision-making in turbulent times. Erin is an Executive Coach and Author of Decision Flow: the authentic leader's guide to making the right decision when the stakes are high.
We discuss some of the common challenges leaders face when making decisions, how to overcome them, and how to develop a healthy decision-making mindset.Hosted by Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.
2020-05-2030 min
Your Path to Success with Ruth Kearns WollmannLeading through Covid-19 - Debbie Croft on Thriving while Working from Home including How to have Courageous ConversationsDuring the past few months we have all been adjusting to a world impacted by the global Covid-19 pandemic, both personally and professionally.
As leaders we need to step up to lead ourselves, our teams and our organisations through an uncertain and shifting landscape, while holding the reality of the personal cost of this situation to so many.
That's why I decided to invite leaders and experts to share their thoughts on leading in during these unprecedented times in a special series of “Conversations on leading through the Covid-19 Crisis."
In this first inte...
2020-05-0131 min
Your Path to Success with Ruth Kearns WollmannSimon Guillebaud explains Relationship is EverythingI was fortunate enough to be able to interview today's guest, Simon Guillebaud, back in October 2018 about his take on leadership and success after 20 years working in Burundi as a social entrepreneur.
Simon knows what it's like to take personal risk for the sake of a greater cause. He left a comfortable life in the UK to go to Burundi in 1999 when it was considered one of the most dangerous places on the planet.
In 2003 he founded an NGO called Great Lakes Outreach (GLO) with the vision to transform Burundi, one of the poorest...
2020-01-0724 min
Your Path to Success with Ruth Kearns WollmannVirginie Hélias on being Brave not PerfectIn today's episode I interview Virginie Hélias, the chief sustainability officer of the consumer goods giant Procter & Gamble, about her leadership journey and the principles that she lives by.
Eight years ago Virginie decided that she was going to make sustainability her job. Two weeks after making this decision she wrote a job description for a corporate sustainability role and booked a 20-minute meetings with the CEO in Cincinnati. The rest, as they say, is history, or in this case her story.
In this interview, recorded in June 2019 she shares her story, and how b...
2019-11-2630 min