You’re destined for the ability to create positive change, within yourself and your community.
Ruth Limkin is a highly regarded executive, accomplished company director, and captivating presenter. With a diverse background spanning private equity, finance, government, not-for-profit, and media, Ruth brings a wealth of experience and expertise. Her exceptional leadership abilities and proven track record make her a sought-after choice for executive and non-executive roles. As a captivating presenter, Ruth’s compelling communication skills and passion for inspiring audiences set her apart.
A rare mix of personal, political, business and wellbeing, Ruth’s story telling ability, and track record of healthcare entrepreneurship, start ups and scale ups, along with navigating health challenges as a senior leader, Ruth brings a wealth of warmth and wisdom.
With over 25 years of experience, Ruth is a passionate and visionary leader who helps people and organisations find solutions and achieve outcomes in the field of mental health and addiction. As the Founder of The Banyans Healthcare, Ruth has grown the organisation to a world-renowned destination for premium and personalised treatment since 2015, serving clients from around the globe and representing the model of care to UHNW and high-profile individuals. Drawing on this experience, expertise and industry awareness, Ruth is the Founder and Chief Commercial Officer at Sana Health Group, a group of behavioural treatment providers, to facilitate the ongoing cohesion, strengthening, marketing, and development of this network of treatment centres.
A survivor of Breast Cancer, Ruth is a compelling advocate for proactive approaches to personal wellbeing and preventative healthcare, and her experience as a patient fuelled her passion for providing person-centred healthcare.
Alongside these roles, Ruth contributes to the education, research, and innovation in the field of wellbeing, mental health and addiction as an Adjunct Professor at Torrens University Australia, a member of the workforce reference group at the National Centre for Education and Training on Addiction, and an advisory board member at Recovery.com.
Talking Points
Why We’re Burning Out – and What to Do About It
Workplace burnout is at an all-time high. This keynote unpacks the root causes of burnout and provides practical, science-backed strategies for reclaiming energy, focus, and purpose in a demanding world. Whether focused on executive level audiences, or the wider workforce, Ruth will assist her audience to manage this for themselves as well as how to positively influence their workplace and lead their teams.
Why We’re Burning Out – and What to Do About It
The Resilience Blueprint: Building Mental Strength for Leaders
In an era of unprecedented challenges, resilience is the ultimate leadership skill. This session equips leaders with tools to navigate uncertainty, adapt under pressure, and cultivate a mindset that turns obstacles into opportunities. Exploring the profound shift from hustle culture to high-performance living, this talk offers actionable strategies to thrive in both work and life.
The Resilience Blueprint: Building Mental Strength for Leaders
The Science of Self-Optimisation: How to Level Up Your Life and Leadership
High performance begins with self-mastery. This keynote dives into cutting-edge research on human performance, exploring habits, routines, and mental frameworks that help individuals optimize their potential and achieve extraordinary outcomes in every aspect of life. It also helps high-level leaders understand the science of how improved well-being provides positive productivity returns—for themselves, their teams, and their organizations. Covering six dimensions of well-being, the session provides evidence-based strategies for designing a life that drives personal and professional success.
The Science of Self-Optimisation: How to Level Up Your Life and Leadership
The Integrity Advantage: Emotional and Mental Stewardship in Leadership
An exceptional life begins with inner strength. This keynote explores the transformative power of emotional and mental stewardship, equipping the audience with ideas and insights to navigate challenges with clarity, purpose, and resilience. With stories from her diverse professional experience, Ruth helps her audience address the subtle pitfalls of negativity, entitlement, and fear, and learn how to align their decisions with core values, inspire trust, and create a flourishing environment for themselves and their teams.
The Integrity Advantage: Emotional and Mental Stewardship in Leadership
Workshop: The Life That Thrives: A Framework for Sustainable Well-Being
This workshop-style session provides a comprehensive approach to building a thriving life. Whether her audience is social entrepreneurs, senior executives or women’s organisations, Ruth adjusts her approach and takes her audience through a targeted framework, supported by research and personal experience. Participants will develop a personalized well-being plan, including an action oriented worksheet and access to a downloadable workbook. This session always provides practical, lasting impact.
Workshop: The Life That Thrives: A Framework for Sustainable Well-Being
Student Workshop: From Floundering to Flourishing: Moving past stuck
Designed for senior high school and university students, this workshop takes students through simple ways they can move past stuck and take small, sustainable steps to manage stress and promote a flourishing life. Facilitating input from the audience, and working through development of a personal wellbeing plan, this workshop is grounded in reality, and is a regular reoccurring booking for private schools.
Student Workshop: From Floundering to Flourishing: Moving past stuck
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We have run an annual conference for over 20 years drawing 300-400 charity leaders from around Australia. We invited Ruth to bring one of five plenary sessions to our conference a few years ... keep reading CMA
Ruth has spoken at our leadership events numerous times and is always one of the first speakers on our invite list. Our emerging leaders love hearing from Ruth and, in particular, have found her insights regarding leadership and self-care invaluable. Ruth is incredibly genuine and speaks with deep wisdom from many years of leading others. I would not hesitate to recommend Ruth as a must have speaker.
