Success That Feels Like You
Welcome to Lumora Coaching, where your ambition is supported, your wellbeing is prioritized, and all of you is celebrated.
At Lumora, women are supported in designing careers that feel as good as they look on paper; careers rooted in values, purpose, fulfillment and joy.
Through personalized, research-informed, values-based coaching, I guide women at every stage of their career to design a work life that aligns with who you are, and what you truly want. Whether you're climbing, pivoting, recovering, or redefining success, Lumora helps you find clarity, set goals and boundaries, and maps a path for you to shine without burning out.
Whether you're navigating transitions, redefining success, or simply craving more joy and ease in your work life, you'll be seen, heard, and supported every step of the way. We will celebrate your wins no matter how small, because little steps lead to big changes.
At Lumora Coaching, we have individualized coaching and flagship coaching programs that are outlined below.
YOU don’t have to be the price of your success. You can have success that honors ALL THAT YOU ARE.
Lumora: Career wellbeing for women.
ABOUT ME
Ruth C. White, PhD MPH MSW is on a mission to help women find success that feels like them.
Dr. White’s career has taken a meandering path with success in many roles. She has worked as a social worker in the USA, Canada and the UK, and gave up tenure in the social work program at Seattle University to teach in the ground-breaking virtual program at the University of Southern California. Yes… She gave up tenure! Then she left academia for a role as a DEI executive at a Silicon Valley tech firm, and followed up with another DEI role in academia. Ruth is the author of four books, and has written articles on mental health for Harvard Business Review, Fast Company, and Tracy Anderson Magazine. She built a consulting practice in DEI and mental health, with clients such as PwC, Indeed, JPMorgan Chase, Premera Blue Cross, Aetna, Applied Materials, Protiviti, Gainsight, among others. Since 2020, Dr. White has appeared 30+ times as a mental health commentator on KRON4-TV Bay Area, and she has also appeared as an expert on The Today Show, BBC, podcasts, and radio. Her groundbreaking research on the LGBTQ+ community in Jamaica, led her to be an expert witness in more than a dozen cases in collaboration with Yale, Columbia and NYU Law Schools, and advocacy groups across the USA.
In addition, Ruth has a modeling career, that has included major campaigns, and representation by agencies in Toronto, San Francisco, Paris and London. Recently she merged her love for words and travel to become an in-demand travel writer, with articles in CN Traveler UK & US editions.
And she accomplished all this as a mom with an atypical brain: one labeled with ADHD and bipolar disorder. Her sense of adventure has led to PADI diving certifications, kayaking across San Juan Islands and rapids on the White Nile and Pacuare, hiking solo up Mt. Ellinor, and racing sailing boats in the San Francisco Bay for several years. She is also competent with crochet hooks, knitting needles and sewing machines.
Managing Workplace Stress
In the video below, I speak with award-winning journalist Stephanie Lin of KRON4-TV Bay Area (San Francisco) about managing workplace stress and burnout - a topic I have discussed with KRON4 in 30+ appearances.
In this KRON4-TV interview (May 7, 2025), I share insights on managing burnout, redefining success, and protecting our mental health in high-pressure work environments. As a therapist and career wellness coach, I offer strategies for recognizing when stress becomes unsustainable—and how to make space for healing.
Discover Our Coaching Programs
And don’t worry… if these don’t suit your needs,
there are also programs for working caregivers, women ready for retirement, and more.
GlowMode
Individual: $2000
Glow Mode Burnout Recovery Program is an 8-session, 6-hour, 3-month coaching program for high-achieving women ready to move from survival mode to flourishing, and from burnout to brilliance. Rooted in holistic, evidence-based practices, our flagship program helps participants understand burnout, restore energy, set boundaries, and reconnect with their purpose and passion so that they thrive. Also available for groups.
Office Hours for the Soul
Individual: $1500
Group Pricing available
Office Hours for the Soul is a 6-session, 3-month program designed to help female academics do all the things – teaching, publishing and service - without surrendering their sanity. This program helps you protect space, align work with values, and plan sustainable success. It is led by a once-tenured academic, with over 20 years of teaching experience at public, private, small and large institutions, and who has built successful careers beyond the classroom. This can also be formatted for groups, and for faculty retreats. (Yes… That’s me in the pic ;-)
Black and In Charge
Individual: $2000
Group pricing Available
Black and In Charge is a 6-session, 3-month program for Black women who are ready to thrive without buying into historical strong woman tropes of doing it all, and doing it all well, all of the time. Rooted in ancestral strength and built for the realities of today, this program supports you in leading with authenticity, protecting your peace, and wading through the waters of intersectional isms to get to the top.
Also customized for other racialized women: Indigenous, Asian, and brown women from the Americas.
OUR WHY??
YOU!!
At the forefront of transformative professional development, we help women break barriers and redefine success on their own terms. We believe that every woman can have a career that honors not just her skills and her knowledge, but also her dreams, her values, and her wellbeing.
You should not be the price of your success.
We serve women who are ambitious, brilliant and accomplished, and who don’t want to sacrifice their identity and wellbeing to get where they want to go.
Lumora exists to walk beside you as you reclaim joy, redefine success, and redesign a life and career that reflects all of you.
Reach out to get started!
I am excited to hear from you to see how we can work together to create the career of your dreams: A career that feels like YOU!
Let me know how I can help and I will be in touch shortly.