WORK WITH RUTH
Let’s start with one conversation.
Ruth works with leaders and organizations moving through trust strain, public rupture, leadership overload, and the kind of conflict that ordinary facilitation cannot hold. Below is what she offers. The fastest path: The Bridge — a free 30-minute call where you’ll know if you can work together.
THREE WAYS TO WORK
What Ruth offers
For leaders
For leaders rebuilding after rupture.
Private coaching for people moving through cancellation, public shame, leadership overload, or a season where the old identity no longer fits. You work 1:1 by video, typically weekly.
Who it’s for:
- Public backlash — you’ve become a focal point of a story bigger than you
- Career unraveling — between roles, after a firing, after a step-down
- Leadership fatigue — you’ve been holding too much for too long
- Rebuilding after betrayal — colleagues, boards, communities that turned
Pricing:
$250/hr · Weekly cadence
Sliding scale available for active crisis
For organizations
When the people problem is actually the work.
I help leaders, teams, and communities work through trust strain, backlash, identity friction, cultural fragmentation, and hard conversations that ordinary facilitation cannot hold.
Who it’s for:
- VP People / L&D · XR, gaming, tech leaders
- Community teams · Founders
- Mission-driven groups under strain
- Companies between 50 and 5,000 people
Pricing:
~$300/hr · Scoped per engagement
Monthly advisory retainers custom
For your event
Keynotes, workshops, panels.
Ruth speaks about conflict resiliency, social VR design, community building, and the inside of being canceled. She’s keynoted AWE, GatherVerse, Educators in VR, and appeared on Voices of VR #1397.
Topics:
- The DOT Model: A Map for Moving Through Conflict
- The Group Creature: How Communities Turn on Their Own
- Designing for Belonging in Social VR
- Cancellation, Recovery, and What Comes After
Pricing:
Half-day workshops · Full-day intensive · Keynote
Pricing custom per engagement
Not sure which fits? Start with The Bridge. In 30 minutes, you’ll both know.
THE BRIDGE
A free 30-minute consult. No performance. No pressure.
The Bridge is the fastest way to know if Ruth can help. You call. You talk. You listen. By the end, you’ll know whether you can work together and what shape that work would take. If she’s not the right fit, she’ll tell you that too, and point you somewhere that is.
There is no performance required on this call. You do not need to have your life together. You need enough steadiness to tell the truth about what is happening, what it is costing, and what kind of self you want to become inside it.
Bring the messy version. This call is for clarity, not performance.
Book The Bridge
To book The Bridge — a free 30-minute conversation — email ruth@ruthdiaz.world with the subject line “The Bridge” and two or three times that work for you. Ruth responds within 48 hours.
Questions? Email ruth@ruthdiaz.world
QUESTIONS
Asked often
How quickly can we start?
Coaching: as soon as you both have open calendars. Typical rhythm starts weekly. Consulting: depends on your timeline and Ruth’s current capacity — discuss in The Bridge. Speaking: depends on your event date. Book it early.
Do you work outside the US?
Yes. Coaching and consulting happen by video (currently Zoom). Ruth is based in the San Francisco Bay Area. She’s worked with leaders and organizations across Europe, Asia, Canada, and Australia. Time zone math applies, but it works.
What if my situation is unusual?
Good. The situations Ruth works with are often unusual — public rupture, community fracture, identity transitions that don’t fit into standard frameworks. If your situation feels too complex or niche, bring it to The Bridge. If she can hold it, you’ll both feel it. If she can’t, she’ll say so and point you to someone who can.
This isn’t therapy, right?
Correct. Ruth holds a Psy.D. in Clinical Psychology and ran a private practice before pivoting to consulting in 2020. In this work, she’s not your therapist — she’s your leadership coach and consultant. If you need clinical care, she’ll help you find it. This is leadership coaching anchored in psychological depth, with a different boundary and different goal.
If we’re not the right fit, I’ll tell you in the first call and point you somewhere that is.
You deserve someone who can hold what you’re carrying. If that’s Ruth, The Bridge will be clear. If it’s not, you’ll know that too.
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