Ritmo360
We create the conditions and the conversations that bring people back to themselves. Leaders, teams, and the person at the top who steadies everyone else, and has nowhere to set it down.
Russell, I trusted you because your energy created a space where honesty felt effortless. You have a rare way of listening that invites people back to themselves. Some people create space; others are the space. You are the latter.
A Global VP in Consumer Health
You've had enough frameworks that don't translate to the room you're actually in. True clarity is forged under genuine pressure, not extracted from textbooks or taught in academic theory. It comes from experience that cannot be simulated.
Every high-performing leader carries responsibilities they cannot openly share with their teams or their families. The right advisory relationship honours that weight with total confidentiality, absolute discretion, and an unyielding commitment to your performance.
You do not need another rigid framework forced upon you. Lasting breakthroughs happen when you realise the path forward for yourself. We create the conditions. The insight is always yours.
Most leadership challenges are invisible from the inside. The people closest to the problem are often the last ones to see it clearly. That is not a failure of intelligence. It is the nature of proximity and pressure.
Performance is human before it's operational. Change doesn't start with systems or charts. It starts with people: with trust, relationships, purpose, and belief. This is the foundation every engagement is built on.
Every leader carries something unseen. Our work honours that, with discretion, respect, and no judgement.
We don't give you answers. We create the safety and challenge for you to find your own. Discovery sticks; advice rarely does.
Russell Taylor, Founder — Ritmo360
Russell has spent 42 years in and around leadership, from nuclear submarines to boardrooms. Thirty of those years in senior corporate leadership, as an executive on the leadership teams of businesses worth 4.5 and 12 billion pounds, and fifteen years as an independent leadership consultant and adviser, thirteen of them to Bain and Company, one of the most respected consulting firms in the world.
He is a recognised expert in leadership, in enabling high-performing teams, and in transforming the capability and cost of complex service operations at a global scale. Real clients include T-Mobile, Telstra, Bupa, ANZ Bank, Newell Brands, Bain & Co, Bose, Verisure, and Junior Adventures Group — spanning telecoms, banking and insurance, professional services, health, security services, manufacturing, retail, and consumer goods.
Russell leads with attention. A lifetime of reading people closely means he often senses what a person, or a whole room, is really feeling before it is said — even on a screen — and he knows in the moment when to press gently and when to wait. He prepares exhaustively, then sets all of it aside to be fully present in the room. He is not running a process and he is not there to prove anything; he is simply, completely, in service of the person in front of him.
It is the work of leaders in transition, teams carrying more than they can hold, and the person at the top who steadies everyone else, has nowhere to set it down, and no one they can be truly honest with in complete confidence.
Russell leads with attention. A lifetime of reading people closely means he often senses what a person, or a whole room, is really feeling before it is said — even on a screen — and he knows in the moment when to press gently and when to wait. He prepares exhaustively, then sets all of it aside to be fully present in the room. He is not running a process and he is not there to prove anything; he is simply, completely, in service of the person in front of him.
It is why someone can sit down with him, often a stranger, and within an hour say something they have never been able to say to anyone, and begin to see themselves clearly again. It will not be for everyone, and that is alright. It is for the people who feel it.
Every couple of weeks Russell writes In The Work, a free field guide for people who lead, drawn from all of that experience. Practical and honest, and never theory for its own sake. It is yours if it would help.
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Specifically engineered for organisations navigating critical shifting points, including cohorts of long-tenured staff transitioning simultaneously, structural re-organisations, or market disruptions that shift operational rules overnight. We stabilise the human baseline to protect organisational velocity.
Enquire about this engagementDesigned for executive leadership teams managing internal friction, newly appointed members, or deep strategic re-pivots. We break through entrenched pre-conceptions, rebuild operational trust, clarify role boundaries, and align execution.
Enquire about this engagementA completely confidential, non-clinical space for senior executives carrying high-stakes organisational pressure. We address the unique blind spots of top-tier execution, offering an unhurried, rigorous environment to unpick systemic leadership stress and optimise vision.
Enquire about this engagementUtilising advanced strategic assessment structures to look past superficial data and map the real stories, unsaid habits, and hidden behaviours shaping your workplace culture. Clear operational insights that reveal what drives, and what quietly derails, performance.
Enquire about this engagementConfidential advisory engagements demand absolute trust. These leaders agreed to share their experiences to help others understand the depth and reality of the work.
Russell has a remarkable ability to see the person behind the professional, drawing out strengths and potential you cannot quite see yourself. Perceptive and deeply supportive, he helps you reach a pristine clarity and a renewed sense of what you are truly capable of.
During a period of reflection and career transition, Russell helped me surface and articulate my core purpose with far greater clarity. He asked the right questions and guided me toward my own answers, even when those answers lived in uncomfortable truths.
I was confused, lost and doubting myself. Russell helped me see my value — and today I lead confidently, with purpose and belief.
I've stopped focusing on outcomes and started understanding people. My entire leadership style has changed.
Russell has a rare gift — the ability to unlock potential you didn't know you had. He connects deeply, but he never pulls his punches.
I realised I give psychological safety to everyone else — but not to myself. That was a huge, huge turning point.
Some teams are already good and don't yet know how good they could be. The work is unlocking the capability that is there but going unused.
In the course of a single morning we were closer, more open and driven as a team than I can imagine we would have achieved over twelve months following the status quo. The operating rhythm of the team, the strength of the relationships and our effectiveness has changed tangibly.
One of the most impactful interventions I have ever experienced. Russell got people to disclose who they really are, and created meaningful, personal breakthroughs.
You transformed the approach of this team. I'm honoured and privileged to have been part of the journey.
A master facilitator, who created a trusting space where we could finally talk about the difficult things.
Russell's approach broke down barriers within the team to create an open and honest environment — the result of which fostered extremely productive and meaningful discussion.
Insight, adaptability and clear explanation — and everyone felt seen. A workshop we will never forget.
Each has decades of research behind it. What is rare is bringing them together as one living system, and that is what the work does. The elements are named here; they come alive in the conversation.
Beyond any single piece of work, an ongoing advisory relationship with Russell draws on decades of operating at the very top of large, complex organisations.
You are a true professional and in many respects a “genius”. Your incredible strategic ability combined with an even stronger drive to succeed is an incredibly powerful combination — but your greatest asset is your relentless energy to invest in people: their wellbeing, their development and ultimately their potential.
Russell is instinctive in understanding how to re-engineer a business, deliver transformational change and lead large teams to achieve the impossible — turning a loss-making retail organisation into the fastest-growing retailer of its day, with revenues over £1 billion and a team of more than 1,500 people.
Russell is exceptionally gifted when it comes to reading people — highly emotionally intelligent, driven and purposeful. His charismatic leadership and integrity united the team and motivated them to deliver beyond expectation.
Thank you for your leadership and contribution. You've been instrumental in helping us challenge what's possible, changing the way we work and our level of ambition around what's possible for customers.
Russell's inspirational leadership style is unique and highly effective. He understands his colleagues' drivers and builds highly effective teams across wide and diverse groups. I would have every faith in him to make a huge success of any role.
I certainly felt your passion and energy to deliver an outstanding result. I also observed a real affinity with the teams and individuals that you came into contact with.
Behind his inspirational leadership style is a quick commercial brain and an ability to predict the implications of change on future strategies.
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