Ruth De Souza
Empowering Change Through Facilitation, Coaching, and Conversation
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Ruth De Souza offers facilitation, consulting, mentoring, and speaking services that inspire meaningful change.
With expertise in fostering collaboration, guiding leaders, and addressing complex issues, Ruth creates spaces for creativity, connection, and action. Her authenticity and commitment to social justice resonate with diverse audiences across health, arts, and cultural sectors.
Facilitation
Supporting environments of liberation, creativity, and inquiry
Ruth brings decades of experience as an educator, group therapist, facilitator, and consultant, supporting environments of liberation, creativity, and inquiry. Ruth uses methods that support inventive and unique conversations and collective decision-making. She helps people through discomfort by connecting to their dignity and humanity, and using the knowledge and feelings in the room to help activate pathways to action.
Ruth is a trained therapist, skilled at communication, building connections, and generating collective energy and skills that enable respectful collaboration and navigation through conflict.

Ruth guided our attendees through challenging topics with energy and humility, maintaining a positive learning environment.


Building connections, and generating collective energy and skills
Ruth brings decades of experience as an educator, group therapist, facilitator, and consultant, supporting environments of liberation, creativity, and inquiry. Ruth uses methods that support inventive and unique conversations and collective decision-making. She helps people through discomfort by connecting to their dignity and humanity, and using the knowledge and feelings in the room to help to activate pathways to action.
Ruth is a trained therapist, skilled at communication, building connections, and generating collective energy and skills that enable respectful collaboration and navigation through conflict.

Consulting


Mentoring and Coaching
Bringing clarity, motivation and inspiration
Ruth is deeply embedded in contemporary leadership practices and is an experienced coach and mentor, both in one-to-one settings and as part of mentoring programs.
Ruth helps leaders and emerging leaders to connect to their sense of purpose and find authentic pathways to navigate complex issues and problems, bringing clarity, motivation and inspiration.



Leaving a lasting impact on diverse audiences
Ruth’s work as a public speaker, educator and podcaster enables her to make complex issues understandable and relevant to diverse communities. Ruth brings authenticity, presence, and warmth to the room, combining her passion for social justice and inclusion with wide-ranging expertise. Ruth’s talks inspire and motivate audiences and leave a genuine and lasting impact.
With her broad experience, Ruth can connect to specialist audiences across the health, arts, and cultural fields as well as the general public.

Keynote Speaker and MC
Courage begins with showing up and letting ourselves be seen.
It’s about creating space for transformative conversations that honor dignity and humanity.
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