Hi, I'm Ruth Kudzi
MCC Coaching Psychologist and Founder of Optimus Coach Academy
When you look back it all makes sense:
I'm one of the few people I know who directly uses what I learned in my degree (Psychology & Business) in my day to day role. Both of these have had strong threads through my professional life. From an early age I was always looking at ways to earn some extra money and used to run parties and club nights at school and university as well as having my own tutoring business. I started off my career in recruitment and sales and helped build out our US and European operations before re-training as a Business Education teacher where I spent 4 years working with a range of businesses, schools, colleges and universities on developing partnership projects, entrepreneurship initiatives and career pathways. Even in my role as a senior leader in education I worked on the recruitment and marketing side looking at how we could differentiate and stand out increasing enrolment. I came into the online space in 2016 and established a successful coaching business relatively quickly : three years later I started my own training business and since 2021 both businesses have been making over 7 figures combined in sales. This has come with so many lessons:
- Building a running a virtual team including managing redundancies when we needed to change direction
- Scaling the processes in the business so we had consistency and were able to deliver quality across all products
- Designing marketing campaigns that get results (and looking at the data when they don't)
- Testing so many different approaches to find the right ones
- Balancing work and family life so I can show up in both places
This unique blend means I adapt my style to suit clients : we can be talking managing cash flow one moment and then deeper mindset work the next.
If you're looking for a commercial business mentor with excellent coaching skills and high levels of empathy I'd love to chat.
