Ruth-Ellen Danquah
Keynote Speaker & ADHD Business Strategist |
Expert in AI, Automation & Capacity-Led Leadership
Watch: Why Ruth-Ellen speaks — and how she’ll help your audience grow without burnout.
Ruth-Ellen Danquah is not your average speaker. She's an ADHD business strategist, AI automation expert, and former SaaS business development manager who helped generate over £120 million in sales. Her keynotes blend automation, emotional regulation, and capacity-led strategy with lived experience, helping audiences lead, scale, and show up consistently—even on low-capacity days.
Whether you’re hosting a leadership summit, inclusion conference, or business growth retreat, Ruth-Ellen brings radical insight, vulnerable storytelling, and real-world tools your audience can act on immediately.
Trusted by Organisations
Including:
HSBC | Lush | Aviva | Man Group | Which? | Top ADHD & Dyslexia Podcasts
With over a decade of experience as an accredited trainer, Ruth-Ellen has led teams, delivered trainings, and spoken to audiences from boardrooms to broadcasts. She brings both presence and precision to every room she steps into.
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Most Requested Talks:
When Consistency is a Trauma Response
Why ADHD founders ghost their own goals—and how to build systems that regulate instead of punish.
Automation Isn’t Cold. It’s Capacity Care.
Build scalable AI workflows that flex with your energy—not fight against it. Includes the B.A.D.G.E. burnout framework and Ruth-Ellen’s A.C.E. client flow system.
Masking, Meltdowns & Momentum
Scaling a business when executive function disappears mid-launch—and how to reclaim visibility on foggy days.
Each talk is adapted to suit your audience’s needs and your event theme. Ruth-Ellen also offers panels, fireside chats, and workshops.
Audience Takeaways:
A radical reframe of "inconsistency" and the hidden cost of hustle culture
Tactical strategies for building a business or career that adapts to energy, not just effort
How to use automation, AI, and energy-aware strategies to scale sustainably
Speaker Snapshot:
Fee:
£5,000+ (2 reduced-rate slots available annually for mission-aligned social enterprises)
Formats:
Keynotes, Panels, Workshops (Virtual or In-Person)
Audiences:
Founders, Creators, HR Teams, DEI Leaders, Neurodivergent Professionals
Delivery Style:
High-energy, vulnerable, practical, and radically inclusive
We had a superb workshop with Ruth-Ellen Danquah Really practical session on creating a psychological safe space for everyone. Reminded me to always ask people about how and why they’ve approached something in the way they have, and not just focus on the output. Highly recommend it! Thank you Ruth.
D Scott
Deputy Managing Director and Head of Health
Professional Credentials & Certifications
These deepen Ruth-Ellen’s approach to leadership, burnout, and performance—equipping her to speak with compassion, strategy, and scientific depth across neurodiversity, trauma-awareness, and capacity-led success.
This is what Ruth-Ellen helps your audience activate when you book her:
Reflect
Radical self-awareness. Nervous-system clarity. Visibility without masking.
Learn how to honour energy, embrace difference, and dismantle internalised “shoulds”
Rebuild
Shift from knowing to integrating.
We co-create capacity-led systems, messaging, and leadership models that support real change — not just surface-level performance.
Rise
Lead with clarity, not hustle.
Transform self-sabotage into self-trust, and create momentum that’s sustainable, inclusive, and radically human.
Who indeed
Who is Ruth-Ellen?
Ruth-Ellen Danquah is a neurodivergent business architect, ADHD visibility strategist, and creator of Scaling Simplified™ with AI.
She’s trained over 600 leaders at companies like Microsoft, Expedia, HSBC and Lush, coached 400+ professionals, and helped generate £120M+ in sales.
As a Black, neurodivergent, single mother from a working-class background, Ruth-Ellen doesn’t just understand intersectionality — she lives it. She brings lived experience, business acumen, and an uncanny ability to turn emotional overwhelm into structured transformation.
I believe that we should be celebrated for our differences, not just tolerated
Ruth-Ellen Danquah
Reviews
Read what audience members have said about my talks
Many thanks for the session today, absolutely brilliant, Ruth you are a star, a very engaging presenter.
We had 54 attendee’s and NO drop off’s
S.B
Resourcing Business Partner
Ridiculously passionate’ is a phrase that comes to mind when I think about Ruth-Ellen.
I have worked with Ruth-Ellen as a volunteer since 2012. When we first met I was impressed by the way she gathered 80 people for first the dyslexic success event at Google Campus. Since then we have run around 50 events together for a peer to peer network which targets neurodivergent people developing their career.
Ruth-Ellen’s ability to deliver engaging workshops and facilitate events has ensured the network has made a difference to attendees. Frequently she has been able to unpick challenging issues in a way is both inspiring and result in the achievement of positive change. One of Ruth-Ellen’s qualities is that she strives to ensure everyone gains value out of the meetings. Ruth Ellen is a first-class marketing professional and leader. Any business would be lucky to have her on their team
Charles Freeman
Ruth – Ellen has a technique which is unique to other coaching programs that are on the market which makes her number one in her sector, she has a hands-on approach and offers full support throughout her sessions using different techniques to help her clients achieve their goals. I highly recommend Ruth -Ellen.
Lisa Street
Recruitment Consultant
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Why I Speak
I built a business that looked successful — and left me silently burning out.
On paper, I had the strategy, the systems, the results.
But behind the scenes? I was ghosting my own goals, spiraling in admin overload, and disappearing after every launch cycle.
Not because I lacked discipline.
Because I’d built a business that only worked when I was in hyperfocus — and collapsed when I wasn’t.
That’s when I stopped performing “consistency” and started building something different:
-> A nervous-system-safe business that supports real capacity
-> A visibility system that works on foggy, flat, or fire days
-> And a brand that doesn’t just scale — it self-trusts
I’m Ruth-Ellen, founder of Scaling Simplified™ — a trauma-informed, automation-powered framework for ADHD entrepreneurs, coaches, and creatives who are brilliant at what they do… but exhausted by how they’re expected to do it.
When I speak, I don’t just share strategy.
I share safety, story, and systems that honour your energy and amplify your impact.