Ruby Wax

Improving Your Communication Skills

Human Behaviour

Psychological Functioning

After three decades working on stage, television and radio, Ruby Wax has recently changed direction.

She completed an MSc in Psychotherapy and a course in Neuroscience at UCL, and now now runs management workshops for business leaders enabling them to find a deeper and more direct level of communication with their clients and colleagues. Her workshops combine humour with scientific and theoretical learning and normally involve practical exercises. Ruby's participants leave with a set of tools helping them create a climate of positivity, more effective teams, so directly impacting their organisation.

As Ruby says, "to engage with colleagues in stressful circumstances and positively motivate their actions through your own presence requires a deep understanding of yourself, your own potential and your ability to influence others. But where does this presence come from and how can it be harnessed to positively lead others? Credibility, authenticity and genuineness are characteristics that followers want from their leaders. But authenticity requires a willingness to take risks, stay open to fresh ideas and be completely present in a situation. To be successful you need to become aware of yourself, your people and the world around you. We can all talk at each other but rapport means reading under the radar below the words to understand what people really mean and being transparent enough for them to understand you. When you begin to relate as a human to another it helps build better teamwork, better connections with the public, your clients, your shareholders and your employees. It’s your humanness that works as a glue to hold relationships together, not your intellect."

After arriving in Britain from America in 1977 and training as an actress, Ruby began her career acting alongside the likes of Helen Mirren with the Royal Shakespeare Company before developing her own brand of highly amusing "attitude TV". In addition to performing and presenting Ruby has contributed, written and edited numerous scripts for TV shows such as French and Saunders, Happy Families and Absolutely Fabulous. With her outrageous show, Ruby Wax Meets, she broke all the rules and conventions and created some of television's most memorable moments.

She became one of the best known and popular faces on television. In her own unique and inimitable style Ruby has confronted Imelda Marcos, irritated Donald Trump and been intimate with Pamela Anderson, she is one of the few television personalities who has cracked Cannes and Hollywood. Her TV shows got under the skin of celebrity and seek out the wackier side of life.

Ruby now speaks regularly at corporate conferences, where her sharp brain, wittiness and humour helps get her important messages across.