About Us
Because when teams find their rhythm, everything starts to work.
Ritmo360 was born from the frontline, not from theory, but from decades of leading under pressure. From the sound room of a Royal Navy submarine to the boardrooms of global corporates, our founder has led thousands through high-stakes transformations; turning around underperforming operations, realigning fragmented leadership teams, and rebuilding cultures from the inside out.
The one constant in every successful transformation? Exceptional teams. Teams built on deep trust, capability, motivation, and connection, where people work together, hold each other to account, and challenge with curiosity, not judgment.
What Russell learned, whether submerged beneath the North Atlantic or serving on the ExCos of multibillion-pound organisations, was that performance isn’t created by process, structure, or strategy alone, It’s forged through people; through the strength of their relationships, the clarity of their purpose, belief in what they’re doing, and the intent with which they lead and behave.
His leadership foundation was shaped in environments where the stakes were absolute, most notably in the Royal Navy Submarine Service, where he and 120 teammates operated in total isolation for months at a time. Structure and hierarchy were constant, but what truly enabled performance was trust, clarity, and a shared commitment to deliver together, without compromise.
What began in those high-pressure conditions evolved into a leadership philosophy Russell applied at scale, serving on the executive teams of £4.5bn and £12.5bn businesses respectively, where shifting culture, paying attention to behaviours and relationships, and driving high performance were critical to growth, turnaround, and long-term value.
Across submarines and boardrooms, one truth held firm;
High-performing teams don’t succeed because of structure or process. They succeed through rhythm, shared clarity, aligned energy, and human connection that turns strategy into action.
That’s what Ritmo360 delivers.
Our beliefs on creating lasting improvement
Performance is human before it’s operational.
We don’t believe performance comes from process charts or PowerPoints; it comes from people. From trust, connection, belief, and purpose. Before any structure or strategy can land, leaders and teams need to understand each other, feel safe enough to speak honestly, and be aligned around something that matters. Too often, organisations focus on fixing systems, but ignore the emotional and relational dynamics that power, or paralyse, performance. At Ritmo360, we start with the human layer. Because no sustainable improvement happens without it.
You can’t shift what you won’t surface.
Improvement demands honesty, and honesty demands safety. Lasting change starts with surfacing what’s unspoken: the mistrust, the confusion, the unhelpful stories and untested assumptions. When teams are stuck, it’s rarely because they don’t have a plan, it’s because no one’s saying what they really think. Our role is to create the space, language, and challenge to bring these things into the open, so leaders can confront reality, take responsibility, and build something better from there.
Real leadership is built in the work, not in a workshop.
We don’t do inspiration without application. Our coaching and interventions are grounded in the real day-to-day context of the team and the business. We spend time in the work, understanding the operational pressures, the commercial stakes, and the behavioural habits that either enable or erode results. We don’t take people away from the work to learn leadership, we embed leadership in the way they work together.
Teams in rhythm outperform individuals in motion.
High performance isn’t about individual brilliance, it’s about collective rhythm. The cadence of meetings, the clarity of priorities, the way feedback flows and decisions land. When teams are in rhythm, trust builds, silos fall, and energy compounds. We help teams create the rituals, behaviours, and mindset shifts that enable aligned, accountable, high-trust performance. Because when the rhythm’s right, everything starts to move.
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