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Achieve your goals without Losing Yourself

Meet Ruth Pearce

Ruth Pearce helps professionals under pressure to find clarity, courage, and capacity under pressure. A transplanted Brit who has lived and worked in the U.S. for more than half her life, Ruth brings over two decades of experience in complex corporate, legal, and project-driven environments—along with lived experience of burnout that reshaped her life and work.


After a highly visible professional collapse abruptly ended her first career, Ruth became deeply curious about how capable, effective people lose their footing—and what it actually takes to rebuild from the inside out.
Today, she works with chronically over-functioning “misfits”: intelligent, sensitive, intense, analytical people who look accomplished on paper but are often exhausted, self-doubting, and quietly asking, “Is this all there is?”

More than anything, Ruth is a "synthesizer". She integrates science, lived experience, education, training, a lifetime of being "the responsible one" and the "peacemaker". She has received training from experts such as Rob Kelly (The Thrive Programme), Robert Biswas-Diener (Positive Acorn), and more. She has received awards for her coaching, and is currently working and studying with the team at Nervous System Economy

Ruth is a wife, a mother, a grandmother, a nature lover, she lives off grid and delights in seeing her dogs romp and play on her five acre property in North Carolina. She is a deep listener, problem solver, irreverent, generous and a leader. She values integrity, loyalty and playfulness.
Clients describe the work as life-changing, challenging, and expansive.
"Let me be honest, [Ruth] is not for the faint at heart... she is ruthless in her quest to help you achieve, thrive and not just survive. If this is what you need she is the best at it. She will question, probe and help you to self discover your own path for success" L.B. State Farm

Ruth's clients are:

⇒ Leaders who look like they’re “firing on all cylinders” but feel like a shadow of themselves inside
⇒ Mid‑career professionals who’ve checked all the boxes and still feel a quiet “Is this it?”

⇒ Organizations who see their best people delivering results but showing signs of burnout, disengagement, or loss of spark

If that’s you — or your leaders — you’re in the right place.

My own story of collapse (a.k.a. burnout)

I wasn’t the first person to realize I was burned out.

My husband noticed first. He described me as “absent.” Then my dogs seemed puzzled by me — looking for the human they signed up for, not the distracted person rushing past them.

The last people to see it were my colleagues. In a high‑stakes offsite meeting, surrounded by senior leaders, I suddenly stood up and spoke out. It wasn’t a planned act of bravery. It was my body, my integrity, my spirit refusing to stay silent any longer.

It cost me. And it saved me.


From that moment five questions have guided me:
  1. How did I end up there?
  2. What choices and ignored signals led to that collapse?
  3. How can others avoid crashing as hard as I did?
  4. How do they move forward if the worst happens?
  5. How can I become the resource others need to avoid this kind of experience?
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What Ruth does now

Today, Ruth brings that lived experience and years of study into:

  • Keynotes and workshops for organizations who want their leaders to perform at a high level without burning out

  • Coaching for mid‑career professionals who want to feel like themselves again

  • Frameworks and tools that help people move from “I can’t keep doing this” to “I know what’s next and how to get there”


Ruth's work lives inside two core frameworks:

  • Be Hopeful, Be Strong, Be Brave, Be Curious® – my registered trademark book and philosophy, built around four powerful leadership mindsets.

  • The Six Levers of Sustainable Success™ – a practical leadership model that helps high‑achievers adjust how they use strengths, hope, courage, curiosity, purpose, and alignment so success becomes sustainable.

Together, they form a whole‑person operating system for leaders and professionals who want to thrive, not just cope.

Want to Know More About my Experience & Education?

Check out my LinkedIn Profile here: Ruth Pearce

Ready to Talk?

If any part of my story resonates with you — or sounds like your leaders — let’s talk about what sustainable success might look like for you or your organization.
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