About Ruth
For over 20 years Ruth has focused on developing talent and supporting learning and leading the training function in professional services firms and healthcare. She has expertise in design, development, and facilitation of training curricula, performance consulting, measurement of learning outcomes and as well as a new hire and new leader, engagement, and succession planning programs.
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About The Willow Tree
The Willow Tree has special meaning for me. When my mother and father married, they moved to my father’s hometown to begin their life together and moved to a home my grandparents gifted them for their wedding. That first year, my father planted a weeping willow as a gift to my mother.
The Willow tree symbolizes strength, stability, adaptability, and resilience as it bends to accommodate and withstand strong winds and adverse weather. As the tree grew, their family grew too with my birth followed by my brother’s arrival and our sweet dachshund Sam. The summer I celebrated my firth birthday, my mother was diagnosed with cancer, and the willow got sick. Two years later as summer turned to fall and the tree lost its foliage, the tree struggled for life while my mother lost her battle. Miraculously the tree survived, regained its strength and has thrived in the years since.
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-Ruth Alexandor
Qualifications
Ruth is a Professional Certified Coach (PCC) with the International Coach Federation, a Registered Corporate Coach™ (RCC™) with the Worldwide Association of Business Coaches™ (WABC™) and a Certified Training and Development Professional (CTDP) with the Institute for Performance and Learning. In addition, she studied Adult Education at St. Francis Xavier and has a post-graduate certificate in business management from York University. Ruth works with PeopleDynamics Learning Group (PDLG) as an associate coach and facilitator of the Business Coaching Advantage (BCA) Coaching Essentials for Leaders Program™, is on the coaching roster of BetterUp and several other firms who consult in workplace transformation and is a certified facilitator of The Ken Blanchard Companies’ SLII Experience™.
Ruth's Strengths
Emotional Awareness
Compassion
Service-Orientation
Strong
work ethic
Integrity, empathy, and confidentiality are the cornerstones of Ruth's coaching practice.
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Ruth works with PeopleDynamics Learning Group (PDLG) as an associate coach and facilitator of the Business Coaching Advantage (BCA) Coaching Essentials for Leaders Program™, is on the coaching roster of several firms who consult in workplace transformation, and is a certified facilitator of The Ken Blanchard Companies’ leadership programs.
When not working, Ruth enjoys the company of her three (almost adult) children and stays active at the gym as well as getting outside playing tennis, cross-country skiing, and hiking. Accompanied by her dog, she has a daily mindful walking meditation practice and is an avid reader of non-fiction.
Currently, Ruth helps people leaders in middle management roles work more effectively with their teams to increase engagement and productivity. When individual contributors are promoted to a leadership position, they frequently lack the leadership skills to be effective in their new roles. In fact, the research (Franklin Covey) indicates that on average, new leaders will not be provided with formal leadership development for the first 10 years following promotion into a leadership role. Through leadership learning and coaching, Ruth is able to support people leaders with both their competency and commitment to be successful in engaging their teams resulting in happier leaders and happier team members doing more work and meeting their goals.
When working with clients to design, develop, and implement/facilitate learning programs, Ruth focuses on delivering training to create change and transfer it into real business results. Beginning with the end in mind, Ruth helps organizations to create and implement a strategy for a successful return on training investment. Using coaching as one strategy to support behavioral change, Ruth works with individuals and teams to enable them to apply their learning and explore what may be getting in their way. Using a strengths-based approach, she serves as a thinking partner with her clients.
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When not working, Ruth enjoys the company of her three (almost adult) children and stays active at the gym as well as getting outside playing tennis, cross-country skiing, and hiking. Her volunteer commitments include the annual OneWalk for Princess Margaret Hospital Foundation and Canadian Blood Services donor and is an avid reader of non-fiction. Ruth has an intentional meditation practice to support productivity and overall happiness.