I’m Ruth. And I’ve always been the person behind the scenes making things work.
My clients come from professional services, the performing arts and entertainment world, fitness and wellness, property and real estate, and beyond. What they have in common is that they're brilliant at what they do, and they need someone they can genuinely trust with the rest.
Most of my clients come to me at a similar point. Their business is growing, opportunities are coming in and the founder is stretched across too many things at once. This is usually when things start to slip through the net. They don't need a full-time Operations Manager yet. They’re not quite ready for a Chief of Staff, but they do need someone they trust to take ownership, create some order around it and keep things moving. That's usually where I come in.
I work with a small number of clients at any one time. That's a deliberate choice, not a capacity problem. The people I work with get all of me, not a fraction of my attention split across twenty different accounts. Seven years in recruitment taught me that the best professional relationships are built on trust, not transactions. I haven't forgotten that.
If you've read this far and something has resonated with you, I’d love to chat!
Growing up, performing arts was everything. I started dancing at age two and studied at The BRIT School, then the Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts. Sixteen years of dancing and a training ground that turned out to be far more useful than I expected. Performing arts didn't just shape my career, it shaped how I think. Discipline, resilience, reading a room under pressure. I learned all of that before I ever set foot in a boardroom.
Then seven years in legal and compliance recruitment, and honestly, this is where everything clicked. I wasn't just placing candidates. I was advising partners, managing relationships with some of the most demanding clients in professional services, and helping scale a boutique recruitment agency. Recruitment taught me how to ask better questions, spot problems quickly, and understand what people actually need rather than just what they're asking for. That skill is at the centre of everything I do now.
For the past decade I've also been quietly building my own property portfolio in the north of England. So if you're in property or real estate, I know that world too.
What I thought was a collection of very different careers turned out to be the same skill set, applied in different rooms.
Last year, I made the decision to leave London and build something on my own terms in Dubai.
I wanted to test whether what I'd been doing for other people's businesses for the past fifteen years could translate into something of my own, and it did.
Now I work with founders and growing businesses as a Fractional Operations Partner. The person who sits between the founder and everything the business needs, and makes sure it actually gets done.
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