Ruth Cook is an independent management consultant and trainer, with over 25 years experience working on leadership development and action learning across commercial and public sectors in the UK and internationally. Having set up Action Learning Associates in 1998 her company is now firmly established as one of the leading providers of training for action learning facilitators and at the forefront of cutting edge techniques such as virtual action learning.
Ruth founded ALA in 1998. She now has a non-executive role and continues to run facilitator training programmes for the business. Please contact Charlotte or Daisy with any programme enquiries.
Ruth specialises in action learning facilitation and training running regular ILM endorsed open courses for individuals or tailor-made courses for organisations who want to set up in-house networks of action learning sets. Ruth also delivers cross sector action learning sets for leaders as well as supporting organisations in designing and implementing action learning programmes. For experienced facilitators she offers CPD including training in virtual action learning and Masterclasses.
Ruth trains on a range of management development topics, including project management, leadership, creating high performance teams, strategic planning and evaluation, appraisal, business and service planning. She has undertaken extensive training in the voluntary and public sectors in the UK and internationally with Development organisations. She has trained action learning facilitators for VSO in Malawi, for Oxfam in the Lebanon and indigenous cultural leaders for the British Council in Australia. Ruth has also designed and delivered a programme of Learning Coach certification for Heineken operating companies which was rolled out globally.
Ruth has experience of delivering large scale action learning programmes for senior and middle managers to support leadership development initiatives. Customers include:
Watch Ruth’s webinar: Action Learning – Building Lasting Change here.
Ruth can be contacted at ruth.cook@actionlearningassociates.co.uk or view my recent articles and professional profile on LinkedIn
