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SIZE="2"><img src="../Photos ruth/Ruth-suit-web.gif" width="200" height="243"> <p ALIGN="JUSTIFY"><span style="font-size: 9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Ruth Tearle is an international strategy and change management consultant, and the author of numerous books including “Blackboards, Bubbles & Cappuccinos”, “Ride the Wild Tiger” and “Mastering Personal change.” She is known for her worskhops which mix rational, emotional and spiritual intelligence. Her skill is in practicing the art of ‘less is more.’ She is able to craft seemingly simple workshops that provide many focused benefits simultaneously. Ruth obtained her M.B.A. cum Laude from the University of Stellenbosch in 1987. Previously she headed the strategic planning and market research department of Southern Life and was a principal consultant in strategy at Ernst & Young. She founded Change Designs in 1991. Today Ruth is a consultant, a publisher and a trainer.</span></p> <h3 ALIGN="JUSTIFY">The consultant. </h3> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-layout-grid-align: none;text-autospace:none" align="left"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Ruth has consulted both in South Africa and internationally in the fields of strategy and change management. She has clients in South Africa, Africa, South East Asia and the Middle East. In her 17 year consulting career, she has worked in just about every industry. Today she has the experience to custom design focused interventions to meet each client’s specific objectives.</span></p> <center> <p ALIGN="JUSTIFY">Click here to see a copy of <a href="client_list.htm">Ruth's client list.</a></p> <h3 ALIGN="JUSTIFY">the publisher </h3> </center> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-layout-grid-align: none;text-autospace:none" align="left"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Change Designs Publishing produces practical tools, charts, and books for consultants, leaders and facilitators in strategy, change and innovation.<a href="../Products/Product Catalog Aug 2008 email imposed.pdf"> Download a catalogue of these tools here.</a> These tools are used by Ruth Tearle in her own consulting – providing extra value to her clients, and allowing them to achieve far more benefits in a shorter time frame. Using these tools, a group will achieve in 2 days, what would normally take 5 days of facilitation.<o:p> </o:p> </span></p> <center> <h3 ALIGN="JUSTIFY">The trainer.<b><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p> </span></b></h3> </center> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-layout-grid-align: none;text-autospace:none" align="left"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">In the past, Ruth presented programmes in leadership, strategic planning, implementation and change management for a number of business schools in South Africa. Today she runs the highly popular Change Master Series of workshops under the Change Designs brand. These practical workshops are designed to train internal and external consultants in practical strategy, change management and innovation. She also trains custom designed in house programmes. </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-layout-grid-align: none;text-autospace:none" align="center"> <a href="../Training/CD_Training_Catalogue.pdf"><b><font color="#FF0000">Download a catalogue of all courses</font></b></a><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p> </span></p> <center> <p ALIGN="JUSTIFY">Click here to see <a href="../Change_ master_workshops/Delegate_feedback_change_master.htm">what delegates on Ruth's courses have to say about her.</a></p> <h3 ALIGN="JUSTIFY">The author.</h3> <p ALIGN="JUSTIFY">Ruth's publications include:</p> <ul> <li> <p ALIGN="JUSTIFY"><a href="http://www.ruthtearle.com">Blackboards, Bubbles & Cappuccinos.</a> An inspirational novel that explains emotional intelligence and spiritual intelligence easily. A book to help you discover your purpose and live with passion. </li> <li> <p ALIGN="JUSTIFY"><a href="../Products/Ride_the_wild_tiger.htm">Ride the Wild Tiger</a>. A story of personal and organisational transformation. Published by Compress 2000.</li> <li> <p ALIGN="JUSTIFY">Managing Transition' which was published by J.L. Van Schaik in SA and by Pfeiffer & Associates of San Diego, USA for the world market.</li> <li> <p ALIGN="JUSTIFY"><a href="../Products/Mastering Personal Change Book.htm">Mastering Personal Change. </a>An interactive book to help you to cope with personal change.</li> <li> <p ALIGN="JUSTIFY">A paper "Riding the Wild Tiger" was published in a book entitled Strategic Integration in 1996 by John Wiley & Sons Ltd . </li> </ul> <p ALIGN="center"><b><font color="#FF0000"><a href="../Products/Product Catalog Aug 2008 email imposed.pdf">Download a product catelogue here.</a> </font></b> <p ALIGN="center" class="red"><a href="../Products/Reviews bubbles.htm">See a video review of Blackboards Bubbles & Cappuccinos<br> by Natalia Baker on SABC 3 TV </a><br> <br> See <a href="../Products/products.htm">Products</a> for more information about Ruth Tearle's publications <p align="center"> </p> </center> </td> <td width="0" height="522"> </td> <td valign="top" width="105" bgcolor="#008080" height="522">  <div align="center"> <table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="74" height="522" bgcolor="#009999"> <center> <tr> <td valign="middle" height="67" bgcolor="#008080" width="74" align="center"> <p align="center"><b><font face="Arial Narrow" size="3" color="#008080"><span style="background-color: #FFFF00">Public Events</span></font></b></td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" height="526" bgcolor="#008080" width="74" align="center"> <p align="center"><b><font face="Arial Narrow" color="#00FF00" size="2">The Change Master Series</font></b></p> <p align="center"><b><a href="../Change_ master_workshops/Public events/Public Events.pdf"><font face="Arial Narrow" size="2" color="#FFFFFF">Course Catalogue</font></a></b></p> <p align="center"><b><a href="../Change_ master_workshops/Change Master Workshops 2010.pdf"><font face="Arial Narrow" size="2" color="#FFFFFF">Change Master Series in a nutshell</font></a></b></p> <p align="center"><b><a href="../Training/Change Events Calendar.pdf"><font face="Arial Narrow" size="2" color="#FFFFFF">Calendar of public events and training courses</font></a></b></p> <p align="center"><b><a href="../Change_ master_workshops/Change Master Workshops 2010.pdf"><font face="Arial Narrow" size="2" color="#00FF00">Change Wizard Workshops</font></a></b></p> <p align="center"><b><a href="../Training/Design day.pdf"><font face="Arial Narrow" size="2" color="#FFFFFF">Design Days</font></a></b></p> <p align="center"><b><a href="../Change_ master_workshops/Change Master Workshops 2010.pdf"><font face="Arial Narrow" size="2" color="#FFFFFF">Accreditation Days</font></a></b></p> <p align="center"><b><a href="../Training/Change Master registration form 2010.pdf"><font face="Arial Narrow" size="2" color="#FFFFFF">Registration form</font></a></b></p> <p align="center"><b><font face="Arial Narrow" size="2"><span style="background-color: #FFFF00">For consultants and coaches</span></font></b></p> <p align="center"><b><span 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