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Founder · Business leader · Non-executive director

Seeing the potential in people and ideas, and building places where it grows.

Ruth Limkin takes ideas from concept to commercial outcome. She founded The Banyans Healthcare and grew it from a greenfield start-up into one of Australia’s most respected private mental health providers, and she backs the people around her to become the leaders they could be.

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Westpac Businesswoman of the Year Moreton Bay Business & Innovation Awards 2023
  • Founder, The Banyans Greenfield start-up to private equity acquisition
  • Group Executive Sana Health Group, 250+ staff nationally
  • BBus, GAICD Australian Institute of Company Directors
  • Adjunct Professor Torrens University Australia

How Ruth leads

Calm under complexity. Curious about what’s possible. Generous with people.

Business leader

Ruth founded The Banyans Healthcare in 2015, first as a social enterprise, and scaled it to acquisition by Genesis Capital, creating a premium executive health category along the way. As a Group Executive at Sana Health Group she now helps lead a national network of residential and day treatment programs.

Innovator

Ruth is developing what would be the world’s first residential psychedelic-assisted therapy service, speaks internationally on AI in behavioural health, and co-founded Aerotracks, a Queensland aviation technology start-up. She brings the best ideas from health, technology, government and investment to problems nobody has solved yet.

Champion of potential

Ruth notices what people are capable of before they do, then gives them the room and encouragement to step into it. She mentors women completing the AICD Company Directors Course, teaches as an Adjunct Professor, and is a Certified Professional Behaviours Analyst.

Ruth Limkin outdoors in the Brisbane hinterland

The story so far

A career of starting things that matter

Ruth has spent three decades turning ideas into organisations: community services, a kindergarten, a food security charity, and eventually a healthcare group that set new standards for mental health and addiction treatment in Australia.

  • 2010 Nexus Care Founder and CEO of a not-for-profit tackling food insecurity.
  • 2011 Next Steps Kindergarten Founder.
  • 2012 Queensland Parliament Chief of Staff to the Speaker, and Parliament’s project director for the G20 Leaders Retreat.
  • 2015 The Banyans Healthcare Founder and Managing Director. Scaled to private equity acquisition.
  • 2023 Sana Health Group Group Executive across a national treatment network.

Breast cancer survivor Ruth’s own experience of breast cancer shapes how she thinks about wellbeing, resilience and leading with generosity. It is why she is passionate about leaders being proactive with their health and always making time for their health checks, and why she believes good leaders make room for people in their hardest seasons.

  • Commercialisation
  • Venture building
  • Healthcare innovation
  • AI & technology
  • Government & policy
  • Board governance

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Here’s to Being Human

Reflections from Ruth on authentic leadership, executive wellbeing and the people side of business. Practical, honest and encouraging, written for leaders who want to do well and do good.

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What you’ll read

  • Leading well under pressure
  • Spotting and growing potential in your people
  • Executive wellbeing and burnout
  • Innovation in health, technology and AI
  • Women in business and governance

Moments along the way

Rooms where good things happen

Ruth Limkin on stage receiving an award at the Moreton Bay Business and Innovation Awards
Westpac Businesswoman of the Year, Moreton Bay Business & Innovation Awards 2023
Ruth Limkin with President Barack Obama and another guest
With President Barack Obama at the G20 in Brisbane, 2014
Ruth Limkin speaking on stage
Keynote on prescription medication and overdose in Australia
Ruth Limkin speaking at a lectern
Women’s Health & Wellbeing Summit 2024

Boards & advisory

A trusted voice at the governance table

Ruth brings risk-based thinking, investment experience and a long-term strategic view to boards and causes across health, technology, education and finance.

  • Ambassador Australians for Mental Health National mental health advocacy charity
  • Director Queensland Network of Alcohol and Other Drug Agencies QNADA, the state peak body
  • Advisory Board Recovery.com VC-backed US healthcare technology platform
  • Co-founder & NED Aerotracks Aviation technology start-up, Flightrac platform
  • Adjunct Professor Torrens University Australia School of Health and Business; Course Advisory Committee
  • Reference Group National Centre for Education and Training on Addiction Workforce Reference Group, Flinders University
  • Mentor AICD Women in Governance Volunteer mentor to Company Directors Course participants
  • Former Chair BSA Group Chair, Remuneration Committee; net assets over $35 million
  • Former Trustee Christian Super Over $1.3 billion under management; Chair, Community Engagement Committee

Keynotes, MC & workshops

Bring Ruth to your next event

Ruth is the author of the Leadership Rethink white paper on executive burnout and cognitive capital, and founder of the Inside Leadership symposium. She turns complex ideas into something people can act on the next morning.

  • Authentic leadership & potential Building teams where people grow into their best work
  • Executive wellbeing & high performance Why we burn out, cognitive capital and leading under pressure
  • Innovation, health & AI From concept to commercial outcome, and what AI means for behavioural health
  • Women in business Leadership, governance and backing the next generation
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Keynote · Women’s Agenda Why are we burning out?
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Behind the scenes

Great leaders, smart women and good coffee

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Here’s to leaders who see the best in people.

For speaking, board and partnership enquiries, email ruth@ruthlimkin.com