Coach · cohort programmes
Ruth Baptiste
Groups of eight to twelve, twelve weeks at a time
Ruth built and ran the leadership pipeline for a regional bank with sixty branches, which taught her that most emerging-leader programmes fail for the same reason: they teach a curriculum instead of coaching a cohort.
She designs and runs Wolcott's cohort programmes, and coaches directors moving into their first multi-team role.
She works in English, French and Haitian Creole, and coaches for two Twin Cities nonprofits pro bono each year.
Structured, generous, and quietly demanding of the group. Nobody hides in Ruth's cohort.
What Ruth is most often asked for
- I have just stepped up a level
- I need a bench behind me
- My leadership team is not working
- Feedback landed badly and I need to move
Sectors Ruth has worked inside
Financial services · Public sector & nonprofit · Professional services · Healthcare & life sciences
How Ruth works
Structured, generous, and quietly demanding of the group. Nobody hides in Ruth's cohort.
Typical shape
Six months, twelve sessions, an eight-interview Stakeholder Read and a mid-point review.
Where you would meet
The North Loop rooms, on video, or a mix — about half of Ruth’s engagements run entirely remotely.
Before you commit
A free thirty-minute chemistry call, without your sponsor. Use it to disagree with Ruth and see what happens.
The rest of the roster
You will meet up to three of them before anything is signed. Chemistry is real, and it is not a euphemism for liking someone.
ICF MCC
Marguerite Okonjo-Fell
Founding partner & head of coaching
Before coachingSVP Operations, an 11,000-staff Midwest health system
ICF PCC
David Ferrante
Partner
Before coachingCFO of a public industrial distributor; led two post-deal integrations
ICF PCC
Priya Raghunathan
Senior coach · lead, team practice
Before coachingVP Engineering at a logistics software company (140 engineers)
ICF PCC
Coleman Wright
Senior coach
Before coachingGeneral Manager, consumer packaged goods — fourteen years of P&L
Chemistry call
Meet Ruth, and two others
Thirty minutes each, free, with no sponsor in the room. Use the call to find out how this person handles the moment you disagree with them.