Executive, Career & Leadership Coach

Ruth Singh

Helping professionals navigate career transitions, grow as leaders and thrive through change.

I combine 25+ years of corporate HR leadership experience with professional coaching to help individuals gain clarity, navigate career and workplace challenges, strengthen their leadership effectiveness and create purposeful next steps.

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  • PCCInternational Coaching Federation
  • 25+Years corporate HR experience
  • 1,000+Professionals coached
  • 2,000+Coaching hours
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“What you seek is seeking you.”Rumi

Coaching

Coaching for the moments that matter

Careers evolve. You may be considering a career move, stepping into your first leadership role, preparing for a bigger position, navigating organisational change, returning to work, or simply asking yourself, “What next?”

Coaching provides the space to step back, reflect, challenge your thinking and make intentional choices about your career, leadership and future.

I work with professionals across career stages — from new managers to senior executives and C-suite leaders.

  1. 01

    Career Development & Transition

    Gain clarity. Navigate change. Move forward with confidence.

    Whether you are considering a career move, changing direction or preparing for your next opportunity, coaching can help you understand what you want and create a practical path forward.

    • Career direction and clarity
    • Career transitions and pivots
    • Promotion and next-level preparation
    • Professional positioning and personal branding
    • Job search strategy and interview readiness
    • Career resilience during organisational change
  2. 02

    Executive & Leadership Coaching

    Lead with greater confidence, presence and impact.

    For experienced professionals and leaders looking to strengthen how they lead, communicate, influence and create impact.

    • Executive presence
    • Strategic thinking
    • Stakeholder management
    • Communication and influence
    • Leading through change
    • Leadership effectiveness
    • Building confidence and credibility
  3. 03

    New Manager Coaching

    From individual contributor to confident people leader.

    The transition into management brings a new set of challenges. Coaching helps new managers develop the mindset, skills and confidence needed to lead effectively.

    • Managing former peers
    • Delegation and accountability
    • Giving and receiving feedback
    • Difficult conversations
    • Building credibility
    • Managing performance
    • Building and developing teams
  4. 04

    Career Reinvention & Your Next Chapter

    Step back. Reassess. Create what comes next.

    Sometimes the question isn’t simply “What’s my next job?” It is “What do I want from the next phase of my career and life?”

    Coaching can help you explore possibilities, reconnect with what matters and make purposeful choices.

    • Career reinvention
    • Preparing for the next phase of a career
    • Exploring new directions
    • Rebuilding confidence after a career setback
    • Finding purpose and direction
    • Creating a meaningful next chapter
  5. 05

    AI-Ready Career Development

    Stay relevant in a rapidly changing workplace.

    AI is reshaping roles, skills and career paths. I help professionals understand how their work is changing, identify capabilities they need to develop and create a practical plan for staying future-ready.

    • Understanding how AI is changing careers and workplaces
    • Identifying future-ready skills
    • AI-enabled career development
    • CV and LinkedIn profile optimisation
    • Interview preparation
    • Identifying relevant learning and upskilling opportunities
  6. 06

    Workplace & EAP Coaching

    Support for the challenges that affect work, careers and wellbeing.

    Drawing on more than 25 years of corporate HR experience and extensive coaching practice, I support professionals navigating workplace and career challenges that can affect confidence, relationships, performance and career direction.

    • Workplace stress and overwhelm
    • Career uncertainty and transitions
    • Performance and confidence challenges
    • Difficult workplace relationships
    • Manager–employee challenges
    • Difficult conversations
    • Leadership transitions
    • Communication and interpersonal effectiveness
    • Organisational change and restructuring
    • Work-life integration
    • Building resilience
    • Return-to-work and career re-entry
    • Professional development and career planning
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How coaching works

Discover. Reflect. Grow. Transform.

Coaching is not about being given answers. It is about creating the space to think more deeply, see new possibilities and make choices that are right for you.

Together, we explore what matters, identify what may be holding you back, consider different perspectives and translate insight into purposeful action.

  1. 1

    Discover

    Clarify what you really want and define the outcomes that matter to you.

  2. 2

    Reflect

    Explore your assumptions, patterns, strengths and perspectives — and consider what may need to change.

  3. 3

    Grow

    Experiment with new approaches, build capability and learn from your experiences.

  4. 4

    Transform

    Turn insight into sustained action and create meaningful change in the way you work, lead and navigate your career.

Navigating a career move

Considering a new role, changing direction or making a career pivot? Gain clarity about what you want and develop a practical strategy for moving forward.

Stepping into leadership

Moving from individual contributor to manager, or from functional leader to Business Head or C-suite? Build the confidence, presence and leadership capability needed for the next level.

Creating your next chapter

Considering what comes after your current role or career phase? Explore possibilities, reassess what matters and create a purposeful plan for what’s next.

Mentor Coaching for ICF Level 1 & Level 2 Coaches

ICF Mentor Coaching

Working towards your ICF credential or looking to deepen your coaching practice?

I offer structured, reflective mentor coaching designed to help coaches strengthen their application of the ICF Core Competencies, develop greater coaching awareness and build confidence in their practice.

As an ICF-registered Mentor Coach, I work with coaches pursuing Level 1 (ACC) and Level 2 (PCC) credentials.

  • ICF-registered Mentor Coach
  • Level 1 & Level 2 Mentor Coaching
  • 10+ coaches mentored

Strengthen your coaching. Deepen your practice. Grow as a coach.

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What mentor coaching can include

  • Reflective mentoringExplore your coaching practice, choices and areas for development.
  • Session observation & feedbackReceive focused feedback against the ICF Core Competencies and relevant PCC Markers.
  • Practice & developmentStrengthen your coaching skills through structured practice and reflection.
  • Credential preparationBuild confidence and readiness for the ICF credentialing process.

My approach

Mentor coaching is a collaborative learning relationship. My role is not to tell you how to coach, but to help you observe, reflect, experiment and develop your own coaching capability.

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About Ruth

HR leader. Corporate insider. Professional coach.

I believe meaningful career growth begins with the willingness to pause, reflect and ask better questions.

I am an ICF Professional Certified Coach (PCC) with more than 25 years of experience across Human Resources, leadership and organisational development.

My corporate career gave me first-hand experience of the realities of organisations, leadership, workplace relationships, performance and career decisions. I have worked across manufacturing, financial services, FMCG, pharma, retail and other sectors, including senior HR leadership roles.

Today, I bring together three perspectives:

  • The HR professionalwho understands organisations and workplace realities.
  • The corporate leaderwho understands the pressures and responsibilities of leadership.
  • The coachwho creates the space for clients to think, reflect, discover and choose.

I help clients:

  • Gain clarity about their career direction
  • Navigate career transitions and pivots
  • Prepare for leadership roles
  • Strengthen executive presence and influence
  • Improve effectiveness and impact
  • Navigate workplace challenges
  • Build confidence and resilience
  • Develop future-ready capabilities

My approach is grounded in curiosity, reflection, practical action and continuous learning.

My coaching philosophy

I don’t believe coaching is about telling people what they should do.

It is about creating the space to think, reflect, discover and choose.

My role is to help you see possibilities, challenge assumptions, recognise your strengths and explore perspectives that may not be immediately visible.

Ultimately, the choices belong to you.

My responsibility is to create a thoughtful, confidential and non-judgmental space in which you can make those choices with greater clarity and confidence — and turn insight into purposeful action.

Why Ruth

Why work with Ruth?

Coaching grounded in real-world corporate experience

I don’t just understand leadership and career challenges from a coaching perspective. I have experienced the corporate world from within.

For more than 25 years, I worked in HR and senior HR leadership roles — managing people, advising leaders, building HR functions, navigating organisational change and dealing with the everyday realities of the workplace.

That experience gives me a practical understanding of the situations my clients bring to coaching.

  • 25+Years of HR & corporate experience
  • 2,000+Coaching hours
  • 1,000+Professionals coached
  • PCCProfessional Certified Coach, International Coaching Federation
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Corporate experience

Manufacturing · 12+ years

ACC

Managed HR for 1,800 management staff across 17 plant locations, gaining extensive exposure to multi-site manufacturing HR, plant culture, performance, workforce practices and leadership development.

FMCG / Pharma Manufacturing

Sapat Group of Companies

Built and led the HR function for a 600+ employee group, covering HR operations, talent acquisition, performance management, compensation and employee relations.

Financial Services

Emkay Global Financial Services

Led the HR function across Institutional Equity, Retail Broking, Insurance, Investment Banking and Wealth Management.

Experience across industries

I have coached professionals and leaders across a wide range of industries, functions and career stages.

  • Financial Services
  • Banking & Finance
  • Investment Banking
  • IT & Technology
  • Management Consulting
  • Consumer & Retail
  • Pharmaceuticals
  • Automotive
  • Manufacturing
  • Construction
  • Oil & Energy
  • Media

What clients say about working with me

In their words

Every coaching relationship is different. These reflections from clients highlight some of the ways coaching has helped them gain clarity, confidence and greater impact.

Ruth doesn’t offer generic advice. She tailors her approach to your specific situation. Her ability to listen deeply and ask the right questions helped me grow into my Director role with more confidence and clarity than I thought possible.
DirectorFinancial Services
Ruth helped me find my purpose. That soul-searching work is at the core of everything else. She pushes the limit, sets timelines, and makes sure learnings carry forward session to session.
CEOAutomobile Company
You anchored me out of the dense and dark jungle of uncertainty, low confidence, and self-doubt. Your experience and expertise were evident in every interaction.
Program ManagerIT Business Partner

Credentials

Credentials & professional development

  • Professional Certified Coach (PCC)International Coaching Federation · Renewed 2025
  • Master’s in Human Resource ManagementTata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS), Mumbai
  • Master NLP Practitioner
  • Group Coaching Practitioner
  • Thomas PPA / DISC Assessor

Experience

Professional experience

  1. 2018 – Present
    Executive & Leadership Coach
    Propel Consultancy Services
  2. 2020 – Present
    Career Development & Career Transition Coach
    Independent / Freelance
  3. 2009 – 2018
    Head of HR
    Emkay Global Financial Services
  4. 2004 – 2008
    General Manager – HR
    Sapat Group of Companies
  5. 2003 – 2004
    Director – Executive Search
    Mangalam Placements
  6. 2000 – 2003
    Human Resources Consultant
    Propel Consultancy Services
  7. 1999 – 2000
    Lecturer – Human Resource Management
    Defence Services Staff College, Wellington
  8. 1986 – 1998
    Manager – HR
    Associated Cement Companies Ltd. (ACC)

Insights

Questions worth asking

Thoughts and practical perspectives on careers, leadership, workplace challenges and the changing world of work.

  • Career

    Should I stay in my current role or look for a new opportunity?

  • Leadership

    Executive presence: what it really means

  • Future of Work

    How AI is changing careers — and what professionals should do about it

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Beyond coaching

I believe continuous learning, curiosity and stepping outside our comfort zones keep us growing — both personally and professionally.

Outside coaching, I enjoy sailing, scuba diving, yoga, cooking and reading.

“Making a difference to the lives and careers I connect with keeps my passion for coaching alive.”

Contact

Ready to explore what’s next?

Whether you are considering a career move, stepping into leadership, navigating a workplace challenge or thinking about your next chapter, let’s have a conversation.

You don’t need to have everything figured out before you reach out.

Our first conversation is an opportunity to understand what you are looking for, explore what coaching might offer and decide whether we are a good fit.

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Tell me a little about what you would like to explore. This will help me understand what you are looking for and make our initial conversation more useful.

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