About Russell Heath

Russell works with high-performing professionals and entrepreneurs who are committed to exceling as executives and leaders. His coaching focus is personal mastery; that is, to develop in individuals the leadership, emotional intelligence, and resilience to drive the action forward—with deftness and humor—regardless of the circumstances.

He came to leadership coaching after many years leading non-profit mission-driven organizations in Alaska. In those efforts, it became clear to him that the essential element in the success or failure of any organization or project was the quality of its leadership—and that leadership was more a function of character and being than it was of skills and techniques. In service to his own leadership, he moved to New York City and entered a rigorous leadership coaching program. Transformed by that experience, he decided to become a coach himself. He is a graduate of Accomplishment Coaching, one of the nation’s premier coaching schools, and has been coaching professionally since 2012.

In addition to his non-profit work, his professional background includes many years as an IT project manager and systems analyst.

Past clients include managers, directors, and CEOs in technology (established and start-up), finance, law, design, and manufacturing.

Russell is educated in the humanities earning a BA in history at Brown University and an MA in English literature at the University of Maine. He brings a rare (in coaching) but powerful philosophical understanding of what it means to be human to his coaching. He is a member of the International Coaching Federation and is a Master Certified Coach.

He has written two novels; lived in Italy and Australia; traveled twice around the world—once overland and once, alone, by sail; when he left Alaska, he bicycled to Mexico via the continental divide. His next trip is to row around Newfoundland in a boat that he is currently building.