Russ Baleson

Russ Baleson is an experienced learning and development professional, designing and delivering training and coaching that supports behavioural change. Clients include The Royal Household at Buckingham Palace, and Arbonne International.

Training and coaching is his passion, poetry, writing and music are serious hobbies. So his hubs consist of a variety of haiku, poetry, business management hubs, skill tips, etc.

Russ brings great passion and skill to any intervention with which he is involved. Working at all levels in organisations, he develops and delivers programmes that engage and challenge participants to higher levels of awareness, performance and personal understanding.

He is best known as a highly effective facilitator and coach and has designed and facilitated numerous original skill-building workshops. These programmes have been successful in various cultures throughout the world especially in the United Kingdom. His key distinguishable strength is the passion he brings to impact on the behaviour of each individual, and his ability to very quickly determine the real cause of a performance problem before providing an appropriate solution.

Specialist Areas:

Influencing performance and results through inspiring leadership, engagement, and motivation for managers.

Interpersonal skills for all levels to manage interactions, handle conflict, build trust and rapport, and develop effective, long-term relationships.

Selling skills, sales management and negotiation skills.

Managing change and creating a positive focus.

Analysing behavioural performance.

Time management, prioritisation, work-life balance, organisation.

Coaching.

Goal-setting.

Favourite Quotes:

Every moment of your life, including this one, is a fresh start. (Jean-Louis Servan-Schreiber).

The most human thing we have to do is to learn to speak our honest convictions and feelings and live with the consequences. This is the first requirement of love and it makes us vulnerable to other people who may not accept us as we really are but this truth, our vulnerability is the only real thing we can give to other people. (Father William DuBay).

In this life you have to have saviours to survive, those curious people who miraculously come into your life for no apparent reason just in time to give you the chance you desperately need or to extract you from evil or disaster. Do they appear because you prayed for help? At the very edge you always pray somehow even if it’s not to God. But God has many names. (unknown).

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented and fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small doesn’t serve the world. There’s nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won’t feel insecure around you. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It’s not just in some of us – it’s in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give others permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others. (By Marianne Williamson and used by Nelson Mandela in his inaugural speech, 1994).

Our lives are ordered by the Divine so that nothing is too much. We are never given more than we can handle; but nothing is too loose either. We can always breathe, yes, but at times the water is up to where the wings of the nose barely touch. And as we grow? As we grow, the water rises. Still we are preserved from drowning. And that is providential because our nature needs a situation that reminds it: You are always at the beginning. In the life of the spirit you are always at the beginning. (Dr Allan W. Anderson).



The cost of a thing is something called life which is given in exchange for it. (Henry Thoreau).