Who is Marcia Ruben?
The signature of an effective leader is their organization's ability to rise to the challenge, amidst uncertain, complex, and ambiguous conditions. Marcia Ruben instills in her clients the confidence to lead and the conviction to build more resilient, responsive teams to face these conditions.

As an executive coach, consultant, and facilitator, Marcia brings 25 years of experience in untangling complex interpersonal and organizational dynamics. Whether the need is stronger leadership presence, increased conflict management skills, higher emotional intelligence, more persuasive influence, or higher-performing teams, Marcia's focused, direct, and warm approach wastes no time in facilitating a brain-friendly process in which both leaders and their organizations discover their best solutions.

Guiding Leaders from Stuck to Strong
Marcia's experience, skill, and knowledge of human and organizational dynamics in strategic contexts have repeatedly produced pragmatic change strategies and aligned tactics. Her one-on-one coaching with leaders consistently enables solid advances, whether the need is developing within their current position or advancing to the next level. Marcia's consulting engagements yield insight, guidance, and direction to individuals and organizations alike. And her facilitation quickens the untangling that's necessary for progress, whether the knots are within individuals, among team members, or arise from the complexities of the organization as a whole.

Where Experience, Expertise, and Education Converge
Marcia has experience with leaders in a variety of business sectors, including high tech, clean tech, biotech, healthcare, financial services, retail, private equity, government agencies, non-profits, and professional services firms. Coaching, consulting, and facilitation engagements include work with CEOs, EVPs, executive directors, general managers, vice presidents, and senior directors at organizations ranging from start-ups to Global 50 companies. She is a published thought leader in the executive coaching arena and has spoken at industry conferences. Her educational background includes a Ph.D. in Human and Organizational Systems, double Master's degrees (M.S. Counseling and M.A. Human and Organizational Systems), and Phi Beta Kappa graduation from U.C. Berkeley with a major in Anthropology and a minor in Mathematics.

Coaching Excellence, Certified and Recognized
Marcia earned the Certified Management Consultant designation from the Institute of Management Consultants USA in 2002. The Institute of Management Consultants USA awards this certification to select consultants who demonstrate a history of substantive client results, adhere to its canon of ethics, and uphold professional practice management.

In 2010, Marcia earned the Professional Coach Certification (PCC) from the International Coach Federation. The organization awards this certification to coaches who demonstrate proven expertise.

She completed a year-long Evidence-Based Coaching program in 2008 and has logged more than 2500 coaching hours, with scores of corporate clients.

Educator, Innovator, and Pioneer in Leadership Studies
Marcia currently serves as an Associate Professor and the Chair of the Management Department in Golden Gate University's graduate school of business. She is also the creator and Program Director of an M.S. Leadership program. She designed and teaches a popular course in team dynamics, both in-person and online. She also designed and teaches a very well-received course in Developing Personal Leadership for students completing their Executive MBA. Marcia teaches a Masters-level course in Executive Coaching and a doctoral-level course in leadership. Dr. Ruben was also the 2016-2018 Russell T. Sharpe Research Professor, and her areas of inquiry include the intersection of leadership, neuroscience, and complexity.

Marcia resides in San Francisco with her husband and works on assignments around the globe. She is active in non-profit leadership boards and provides pro bono services to local non-profits. Marcia is most passionate about unlocking each person's highest and best potential.

SERVICES

Customized NeuroSTROLL exercise
Want a fun and engaging way to make progress toward your most important business goals? The NeuroSTROLL experiential exercise engages all parts of your brain and senses and provides intact leadership teams with a set of tools to accelerate your leadership success. We can customize the experience to the unique needs of your team.

Executive Coaching
Studies demonstrate that a handful of competencies distinguish superior managers and executives from average ones. You can measure that competency gap in dollars — right in a company's bottom line. Executive coaching can help close that gap and improve a company's financial results. Several studies show that coaching produces an ROI of between six and seven times the cost of coaching. An outside coach offers executive-level feedback, sound leadership practices with a path for adopting them, and unbiased guidance. You can use it as a refinement tool to add polish to key executives, a retention tool to reduce turnover and reward star performers, and a development tool to prepare your next generation of leaders.

SPECIALTIES
We have facilitated scores of successful coaching processes with the following results:

• CEO's stay composed under pressure and more effectively communicate with their Board, their leadership team, and the broader organization

• Hard-charging executives gain emotional intelligence and collaboration skills

• Micromanagers gain confidence to let go and empower their teams

• Women leaders tangled in self-doubt gain confidence and executive presence and rise to new levels

• Leaders uncomfortable with conflict learn to give and receive difficult feedback effectively

• Leaders who are unable to persuade others demonstrate influence and political savvy skills