About ProVeritas Leadership

Dr Ruby Campbell, MScCoachPsych, MBA (Exec), PhD - Founder and Managing Director

Dr Ruby Campbell is the founder and Managing Director of ProVeritas Leadership, and Executive Coaching and Consulting firm. She is also the author of the ground-breaking book Scientists in Every Boardroom: Harnessing the Power of STEMM Leaders in an Irrational World. A highly empathetic, warm and internationally sought after executive coach, Ruby invites her clients on a transformative journey to help them transition to senior roles through cutting edge coaching programs that produce long-lasting results. She has been coaching leaders and teams for more than 10 years from a wide range of sectors including corporate, academia, government and non-for-profit, with a special focus on STEMM disciplines. Having experienced the many challenges of academic and corporate life, she has a deep understanding of what is needed to succeed and be an effective leader, which is one of many reasons clients experience a “resonant” coaching relationship with Ruby.

Prior to becoming an executive coach, Ruby had a 25-year career as a transformational leader in pharmaceutical and biotech industries. She was one of the first female R&D Managers in the Australian pharmaceutical industry and played a pivotal role in building the Asia Pacific Centre of Excellence for a multinational, leading her team to launch new drug products in the 1990s. Ruby was later seconded to the US to lead international quality and regulatory compliance teams. Shortly after, she was asked to establish a contract services business unit for two US-based facilities, growing the business by 200% in 18 months. She later returned to Australia to hold general management roles in operations and scientific affairs in the 2000s, driving large-scale greenfield and transformational initiatives.

Ruby has a Masters in Coaching Psychology from the University of Sydney, an MBA (Executive) from the University of New South Wales, a both a PhD in Science and a Bachelor of Applied Chemistry (First Class Honours) from the University of Technology, Sydney. Ruby is the APAC Roundtable Convener, DEI Council Member and Fellow of the Institute of Coaching McClean Hospital/Harvard Medical School Affiliate, as well as a webinar presenter. She is also a member of the International Coaches Federation (ICF), a member of the University of Sydney Coaching & Mentoring Alumni (USCMA), and a member of the International Leadership Association as well as Global Conference academic reviewer and presenter. Ruby is a graduate of the world’s first EMCC Global Team Coaching program, is a certified Hogan Personality and 360 Assessments practitioner, and MTQ48 Mental Toughness practitioner. Ruby is also a Mental Health First Aider. She has been part of the UNSW Business School Adjunct Faculty since 2010. You can learn more about her leadership development and coaching work here.

Paul Saunders, MSc (Neuroscience Leadership) - Associate

Paul is a registered psychologist who works with organisations across the world delivering leadership development, executive coaching and professional development programs. With over twenty years’ experience he is highly regarded in the field of leadership development, executive coaching, resilience and change management. He works with leaders and their teams equipping them with the resilience and capability to lead transformational change, improve performance, be agile, innovative and grow as leaders. Paul has been engaged as an executive coach and facilitated several leaderships, team development and organisational cultural change programs for a variety of organisations: public listed companies, government agencies, law firms, consulting firms, and private organisations.

Paul uses his background in neuroscience, positive psychology, and organisational psychology to design and deliver evidence-based and highly effective organisational change programs, executive coaching programs, and leadership team workshops for clients. He facilitates workshops and coach’s senior management and their teams to become champions of their organisational strategy and change programs. He helps leaders use their strengths and build their capability to engage effectively with their teams; in influencing upwards with stakeholders; and in work collaboratively with their peers when leading change.

Paul is a registered psychologist with a Grad. Dip Applied Psychology, and B.A. Psychology & Legal Studies, and is a Member of the Australian Psychological Society. He has a Masters in Science (Neuroscience leadership). Paul is accredited in a variety of assessment tools: The Hogan profile and 360; HBDI; OPQ, the Korn Ferry leadership profile; the Watson Glasser Critical Thinking Assessment; and the Belbin Team Profile.

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Theresa Lim, MBA, BCom - Associate

Theresa has been coaching early-stage start-up founders since 2018, bringing approx. 25 years of corporate and start-up experience supporting clients in finding business solutions. She creates safe spaces with clients to increase their self-awareness and uncover blind spots that support them to improve their wellbeing, manage increasing uncertainty, develop critical thinking skills to solve wicked problems.

Theresa Lim is the founder and CEO of Play2Lead, a gamified mobile behaviour change platform. Prior to becoming an executive coach and leading her third software start-up, Theresa led sales, marketing, and product/operations teams, as well as consulting teams at companies like Vodafone, Andersen, ThoughtWorks in Silicon Valley, Sydney, and Singapore. Having experienced the challenges of corporate team leaders and early-stage start-up founders, she has a deep understanding of what is needed to succeed and be an effective leader of intergenerational, cross-cultural, on-site/remote/hybrid teams.

Theresa is in the final stages of the Masters in Coaching Psychology at the the University of Sydney. She has a Bachelor of Commerce and an MBA from the University of New South Wales. She is a scholarship holder of the Search Inside Yourself Leadership Institute program - a leading Mindfulness & Emotional Intelligence program which originated at Google. Theresa is especially passionate about helping improve focus, resilience, inclusivity, psychological safety, and compassion in the workplace.

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Dr Vivianna Rodriguez Carreon, PhD, MSW, BA Comm Sci

Meet Dr. Vivianna Rodriguez Carreon, a distinguished interdisciplinary scholar, facilitator, and consultant with a global perspective on human development, capabilities, and consciousness. In her leadership and team coaching work, Vivianna delves into the inner and outer dimensions of human experience, fostering agency in both individuals and systems. Her unique ability to seamlessly apply multiple approaches is a product of her keen interest in navigating the intricate balance between internal and external self in both theory and practice. Building on a decade of research focused on agency in the face of adversity, Vivianna honed her expertise during a visiting fellowship at the International Development Department of the University of Oxford in 2011.

Currently, Vivianna serves as the curriculum designer and lecturer for "Peace of Mind: The Psychology of Peace" at the University of Sydney since 2019, showcasing her commitment to advancing knowledge and understanding in her field. As a contemplative practitioner and scholar, she also contributed as a research fellow for the Mind and Life Summer Research Institute in 2016 and 2020.

Vivianna's academic journey includes earning a PhD in peace and conflict studies from The University of Sydney, where she was an Australia Postgraduate Awardee APA. Remarkably, she completed this challenging program while raising a newborn and toddler. She has also received the National Council for Scientific and Technological Development CNPq award in Brazil for her postgraduate stricto sensu degree. Her educational background includes a Master's in Social Work with a specialization in Social Policy from the Pontificia Universidade Catholica de São Paulo and a BA in Science Communications from La Universidad de Lima in her home country, Peru.

Dedicated to continuous learning, Vivianna has participated in various workshops and certifications with renowned leaders and organizations. Notable examples include workshops on trauma treatment with Bessel Van Der Kolk, collective trauma healing with Thomas Hübl, and immunity to change with Robert Keagan. She has also pursued certification in longer programs such as Awareness-based Systems Change with the U-School for Transformation, Timeless Wisdom Training with the Academy of Inner Science, Trauma-Informed Leadership I and II with the Pocket Project, and Design Thinking with IDEO.

Vivianna's commitment extends beyond academia, as she actively engages with private, government, and academic sectors. She has served as a core co-host and co-facilitator of Theory U for LATAM with the Presencing Institute and contributed to the research network. Her involvement also includes serving on the academic advisory board of the Inner Development Goals (IDG), where she leads the IDG Higher Education circle. Discover more about Vivianna's impactful work across various sectors and explore her academic contributions here and her LinkedIn page here.

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Who we work with

Our clients come from a wide range of sectors and industries and can be Australian organisations or multinational subsidiaries. We are also engaged by individuals privately. Our clients are from middle management upwards (General Managers, Directors, VPs, C-Suite). They can be individuals with high potential, those with significant responsibility and who have the potential to develop and change, as well as teams.