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RESUME OF RUTH TEARLE

Ruth Tearle is an international strategy and change management consultant, and the author of numerous books including “Blackboards, Bubbles & Cappuccinos”, “Ride the Wild Tiger” and “Mastering Personal change.” She is known for her ability to work with groups and individuals, mixing rational, emotional and spiritual intelligence. She is able to turn negative energy of groups, leaving them excited and inspired about a new project, strategy or change. Her skill is in practicing the art of ‘less is more.’ She is able to craft seemingly simple workshops and interventions that provide many focused benefits simultaneously. With her publishing company, she is able to custom design tools that make it easy for clients to achieve any change.

Ruth obtained her M.B.A. Cum Laude from the University of Stellenbosch in 1987. Previously she headed the strategic planning and market research department of Southern Life and was a principal consultant in strategy at Ernst & Young. She founded Change Designs in 1991. Today Ruth is a consultant, a publisher and a trainer.

THE CONSULTANT

Ruth has consulted both in South Africa and internationally in the fields of strategy and change management. She has clients in South Africa, Africa, South East Asia and the Middle East. In her 20 year consulting career, she has worked in just about every industry - from banking to mining, from construction to government, from NGO’s to parastatals. Today she has the experience to custom design interventions to meet just about any clients goal’s and work with people at any level.

Less is more. Achieve many focused benefits with limited workshop time, in a relaxed, creative environment.

The types of work done in the last 19 years include:

• Formulating strategy. Helping clients to develop corporate strategic plans and visions that are practical, creative and implementable. Plans that excite your team and give your company a competitive advantage. See our approach to doing strategy here.
• Implementation. Helping clients to develop implementation plans, human capital strategies, engagement plans, change strategies, and people strategies that ensure that corporate strategies and projects can be implemented successfully.
• Developing change strategies. Working with project teams to develop a comprehensive change strategy to ensure their project works. Ensuring that the people who will be affected by a change:
  • Know what they have to do to make the project work.
  • Want to make the project work.
  • Are excited and inspired about what they need to do.
  • Take action.
• Training the various stakeholders of a change or project on the roles they need to play to ensure the project achieves the benefits intended.
• Designing and publishing practical tools to ensure it is easy for each role player to be successful in a change.
• Setting up change infrastructure in companies such as developing change agent networks, management forums, innovation champions, steering committees...
• Sustaining change. Ensuring people related changes are measured, and recognized. Sustaining change through creating heroes, sharing lessons learned and magical moments, creating rewards and celebration of milestones.
• Coaching heads of strategy, change, and innovation departments. Ruth acts as a mentor to many in house change managers and strategists. She helps them to establish their own ‘internal consultancies’ and provides them with training, tools and coaching.

THE TRAINER

Ruth has presented programmes in leadership, strategic planning, strategy implementation, innovation, change management and facilitation for a number of business schools in South Africa. Today she runs the highly popular Public Change Master Series of workshops under the Change Designs brand. These practical workshops are designed to train internal and external consultants and coaches in practical strategy, change management, facilitation and innovation.

Ruth facilitates a number of highly practical, in house training courses. These which can be seen in the training section of this website. All of these courses can be customized to meet your organizations goals and requirements. All of these courses have a train-the-trainer option.

THE PUBLISHER.

Change Designs Publishing produces practical tools, charts, and books for consultants, coaches, leaders and facilitators in strategy, change and innovation. These tools are used by Ruth Tearle in her own consulting – providing extra value to her clients. The tools allow a group to achieve more benefits, with less effort, and in far less time than traditional facilitation. Using these tools, a group will achieve in 2 enjoyable days, what would normally take other facilitators 5 days of hard work, to achieve. These tools are available for purchase from our shop.

PHILOSOPHY

We believe that the journey to achieving anything can become an exciting adventure of self discovery, empowerment & achievement - with a little imagination and expertise.

Our tools, training, and interventions are designed to take the drudgery out of strategic planning, change management, innovation or facilitation.

Our 20 years of experience means we don't waste time on doing what doesn't work practically in the real world.

By focusing on the practical, and by knowing what is needed for you to achieve your goals, we are quickly able to build trust with your teams.

We provide real results with full engagement from your team.

We provide a space within which your teams can contribute in creative ways, to creating and achieving any strategy, culture or project. By mixing and matching our beautiful yet powerful tools and training courses, your teams will experience the delight that comes from achieving far more than they ever imagined possible. But the legacy we leave behind, is the excitement and confidence that your teams have - in their own ability, their own creativity, and their own power.