Executive Coaching

Even the strongest leaders can find themselves stuck—overextended, second-guessing, or wondering if they’re making the right moves. Coaching creates the breakthrough that shifts everything.

Ruthie Kim is a strategic partner to powerful leaders at the highest levels of business and culture.

She equips executives, founders and change-makers to break past limits, expand their vision, and reimagine what leadership can be.

As an Executive Coach with Novus Global—a firm trusted by Fortune 500 companies, professional athletes, global non-profits, and industry-shaping entrepreneurs—Ruthie partners with leaders who are determined to go beyond high performance and create lasting impact. Her clients span tech, finance, health, energy, and global non-profit sectors—leaders who are not only running companies but reshaping industries.

Beyond coaching, Ruthie draws on decades of experience founding and leading organizations, building teams, and empowering women. She is a wife and mother of two, and makes her home in San Francisco—a city that continues to shape her vision for resilience, innovation, and possibility.

COACHING SERVICES

1:1 Coaching

Trained as a Meta Performance™ coach, I work with leaders to break past limits, clarify vision, and achieve results they once considered impossible. In these personalized engagements, we uncover blind spots, reframe obstacles, and create the conditions for sustainable, transformational growth.

Company Training

Experience the power of culture-shifting training designed to transform the way your organization thinks, communicates, and executes. Through 1- and 2-day immersive experiences, we build a shared language and equip your people with tools that unlock performance at every level.

Team Offsites & Workshops

In just one session, your team can align around vision, accelerate trust, and accomplish more in less time—with greater joy and satisfaction. These offsites and workshops create space for powerful conversations that drive clarity, collaboration, and momentum.

TOGETHER WE WILL…

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    Clarify your vision

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    Develop a powerful leadership mindset

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     Build a strategy to execute with excellence

Sachi Singh, Founder & CEO Rootless

“Working with Ruthie has unlocked my ability to become a better, more authentic, values-driven leader and manager. As a solo founder, I've found the experience of building a company to be exhilarating, lonely, and challenging - both personally and professionally. In our six short months together, regular sessions with Ruthie have helped me gain a deeper understanding of myself and address my limiting beliefs so I can show up as the leader and human that I want to be! Ruthie has been a game-changer for me, and I'm forever grateful for her astute, empathetic, effective style of coaching.”

Andrea DeLuca, Deputy Director, the Institute for Global Health Sciences

"Before working with my executive coach, I was serving as Deputy Director of the UCSF Institute for Global Health Sciences, leading complex global health initiatives, operational strategy, and international partnerships at a time of extraordinary visibility and responsibility. I sought coaching during unremitting attacks on global health — funding instability, political pressures, and sector-wide uncertainty — knowing I needed to strengthen my executive presence, resilience, and strategic clarity to lead through sustained crisis rather than simply manage it. I had previously relied on self-study, leadership literature, and informal mentorship, but none provided the depth, rigor, and real-time strategic partnership required to navigate challenges of this magnitude.

Working with Ruthie Kim has been transformative — she has been not only a coach, but a trusted mentor and advocate. She asks the hardest questions — the ones that cut through noise and defensiveness — creating moments of clarity I’m not sure I could have reached on my own. She pairs deep insight with practical tools, helping me metabolize pressure, strengthen my presence, and reframe obstacles as strategic leverage points rather than threats. Through our work together, I have shifted from reactive crisis management to proactive, values-driven leadership — strengthening institutional partnerships, group resilience, and turning a period of sector instability into an opportunity to clarify mission, galvanize our team, and lead with greater courage and conviction. If you are leading in complex, high-stakes environments and want to transform pressure into purposeful impact, I cannot recommend working with Ruthie highly enough — the investment will change not only how you lead, but how you experience leadership itself." 

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  • Extremely Encouraging

    Ruthie's an instrumental part of my quest to be the best possible leader I can be for my teams. She pushes me, helps identify me blind spots, and works with me to develop solutions to ongoing organizational issues. And she does all this with an extremely encouraging demeanor that always leaves me feeling like 'I can do this!' no matter what the task.

    Ben Chelf, CEO Sol

  • Invaluable Coach

    Ruthie has been an invaluable coach who has helped me find my authentic self and transformed me as a leader. I'd strongly recommend working with Ruthie to any founders/leaders looking to level up.

    Steve Lee, Co-founder & CEO Aura Health, Forbes 30U30

  • Wise Insights and Careful Discernment

    Ruthie has guided me on a path to greater emotional health, openness to the Lord, and effectiveness in my role as founder/director of a Christian ministry. I have grown so much through wise insights and careful discernment as well as her personal encouragement and loving challenges. Working with Ruthie has made me a better leader.‍ ‍

    Denise Lee Yohn, Co-Founder Center for Faith, Work & Tech

  • Encouragement, Challenge, Accountability

    Taking that leap to invest in myself coaching with Ruthie was the perfect collision of practical tools, clarity, encouragement, challenge, accountability and confidence that I needed to be revived. Her dedication to help me discover myself in new ways and suss out my best fit has given me confidence to proceed forward into my next season.

    Vanessa Coburn, Founding Pastor of Society Church & Spiritual Director

  • Game-Changer

    Working with Ruthie has unlocked my ability to become a better, more authentic, values-driven leader and manager. As a solo founder, I've found the experience of building a company to be exhilarating, lonely, and challenging - both personally and professionally. In our six short months together, regular sessions with Ruthie have helped me gain a deeper understanding of myself and address my limiting beliefs so I can show up as the leader and human that I want to be! Ruthie has been a game-changer for me, and I'm forever grateful for her astute, empathetic, effective style of coaching.

    Sachi Singh, Founder & CEO Rootless

  • The best investment

    My journey with Ruthie has allowed me to embrace my long-buried dreams as a leader and as a child of God. It’s been a gift to rediscover my passion and address frustration points to help me lead my team more authentically and with greater clarity. Her poignant questions, thoughtful guidance, and practical tools have equipped me to take bolder and more intentional steps towards shaping my professional and personal future. Working with Ruthie has been the best investment I made for myself.

    Jieun Lee, Hope International