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Ruth Pearce

Keynote Speaker & Coach for the Legal Profession | JD, PCC, Helping lawyers build careers they don’t have to recover from. Author of two books · 173,000+ LinkedIn Learning learners. at A Lever Long Enough (ALLE LLC)

Durham, North Carolina, United States

Ruth Pearce, JD, PCC, is a keynote speaker and coach for the legal profession.

A licensed North Carolina attorney who burned out publicly and rebuilt, she helps lawyers, law firms, and law students perform at a high level without burning out — through keynotes, CLE, and coaching on burnout, sustainable performance, AI ethics, and the human skills law school never taught.

She is the author of two books and five LinkedIn Learning courses reaching 173,000+ learners.

Available For: Speaking
Travels From: North Carolina
Speaking Topics: Humor in the Law |Character Strengths |Ethical AI | Your Greatest Strength is Your Biggest Risk

Ruth Pearce Points
Academic 100
Author 61
Influencer 174
Speaker 65
Entrepreneur 10
Total 410

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Company Information

Company Type: Individual
Business Unit: A Lever Long Enough
Theatre: North America
Minimum Project Size: N/A
Average Hourly Rate: N/A
Number of Employees: N/A
Company Founded Date: 2019
Last Media Interview: 03/17/2026

Areas of Expertise

Coaching 42.14
Future of Work 33.71
Mental Health 51.45

Industry Experience

Federal & Public Sector
Financial Services & Banking
Professional Services

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Publications & Experience

1 Author Newsletter
Pearce Insights is back — and this time it knows exactly who it's for
Linkedin
July 07, 2026
If you've been in my corner of LinkedIn a while, you may remember Pearce Insights. And you may have noticed it went quiet.

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Tags: Coaching, Future of Work, Mental Health

1 Book
Be Hopeful, Be Strong, Be Brave, Be Curious: How Coaching Can Help You Get Out of Your Own Way and Create A Meaningful Life
Wiley
February 06, 2024
In Be Hopeful, Be Strong, Be Brave, Be Curious: How Coaching Can Help You Get Out Of Your Own Way and Create A Meaningful Life, veteran coach Ruth Pearce delivers an incisive set of strategies designed to help you celebrate your wins and focus on the positives in your life. In this “portable life coach,” you’ll learn how to look at problems, challenges, and uncertainties in a way that can lead to deeper meaning in your professional and personal life.

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Tags: Coaching, Future of Work, Mental Health

1 Industry Certification
International Coaching Federation - PCC
International Coaching Federation
May 03, 2024
This is the middle tier ICF award given to coaches who have more than 125 hours of classroom teaching, 500+ hours of coaching experience, and who have passed the Coach Knowledge Assessment and submitted two coaching session recordings for review and feedback by ICF Assessors.

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Tags: Coaching, Future of Work, Mental Health

5 Instructors
LinkedIn Learning Instructor - Team Coaching Strategies for Project Leaders - 4.7/5
LinkedIn
March 11, 2024

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Tags: Coaching, Future of Work, Mental Health

LinkedIn Learning Instructor - Fearless Leadership - Becoming More Assertive - 4.7/5
LinkedIn
October 26, 2022

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Tags: Future of Work, Leadership, Mental Health

LinkedIn Learning Instructor - Project Manager Burnout: Recognizing, Disrupting, and Reversing
LinkedIn
April 28, 2022

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Tags: Future of Work, Leadership, Mental Health

LinkedIn Learning Instructor - Mindfulness a Critical Skill for Project Managers & Leaders - 4.7/5
LinkedIn
November 17, 2021

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Tags: Future of Work, Leadership, Mental Health

LinkedIn Learning Instructor - https://www.linkedin.com/learning/project-manager-to-project-motivator-unlock-the-secrets-of-strengths-based-project-management - 4.7/5
LinkedIn
November 17, 2021

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Tags: Future of Work, Leadership, Mental Health

6 Keynotes
Careers You Don’t Have to Recover From What burnout in the law actually is — and why the usual fixes miss it.
A Lever Long Enough
June 01, 2026
High performers are the last to see burnout coming, because the drive that built the career is the same
thing that hides the warning signs. In law, the early signals — brain fog, missed details, decision fatigue,
a quiet disconnection from work that once mattered — get mislabeled as weakness and ignored, until
something forces the issue. By then the standard advice (take a vacation, try a new system) is years
too late.

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Tags: Coaching, Future of Work, Mental Health

Your Greatest Strength Is Your Biggest Risk The strength that built your career is the one most likely to end it.
A Lever Long Enough
June 01, 2026
Every lawyer has a signature strength — diligence, drive, ownership, perfectionism — that built their reputation. Overused, that same strength quietly becomes the thing that costs them: the perfectionism that stalls a matter, the ownership that won’t delegate, the drive that doesn’t know how to stop. The hardest strength to see clearly is your own, which is exactly why it’s the most dangerous.

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Tags: Coaching, Future of Work, Mental Health

Introversion, Leadership & the Energy Cost of Showing Up Leading well when the room takes everything you’ve got.
A Lever Long Enough
June 01, 2026
Many of the most thoughtful lawyers are introverts who lead brilliantly in the room — and pay for it long
after everyone else has gone home. The profession treats visibility as free. It isn’t. Without managing the
energy cost of showing up, the people who lead best are often the ones who burn out first, mistaking
depletion for personal failure.

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Tags: Coaching, Future of Work, Mental Health

Sustainable Performance for Lawyers Peak performance that doesn’t cost you the career it built.
A Lever Long Enough
June 01, 2026
The profession rewards output until it doesn’t — and the people who give the most are the ones who quietly run out. Sustainable performance isn’t doing less or caring less; it’s performing in a way you can
actually keep doing. Most lawyers were never taught the difference, so they run a career like a sprint that
never ends and wonder why the tank empties.

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Tags: Coaching, Future of Work, Mental Health

The Fine Line of Funny Humor is a signal of power — and a professional risk. Most people never learn where the line is.
A Lever Long Enough
June 01, 2026
Used well, humor under pressure builds trust, defuses tension, and signals confidence. Used badly, it torches credibility in a single sentence. Lawyers deploy humor constantly — in front of clients, juries, colleagues, and courts — without ever being taught how it actually works. That makes it a liability disguised as charm, and the line between the two is thinner than anyone admits.

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Tags: Coaching, Future of Work, Mental Health

The Lawyer in the Loop Using AI ethically — without surrendering your judgment or your license.
A Lever Long Enough
June 01, 2026
The profession is caught between the promise that AI will replace lawyers and the fear that touching it
will get you sanctioned. Both miss the point. Your duties of competence, confidentiality, and candor
aren’t suspended because the work got faster — and lawyers are already being disciplined for getting it wrong. Grounded in ABA Formal Opinion 512 and the cases already reshaping the rules, this talk
shows what the duties actually require.

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Tags: Coaching, Future of Work, Mental Health

1 Miscellaneous
Author page - Amazon
Wiley books
February 06, 2024

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Tags: Coaching, Future of Work, Mental Health

1 Speaker Award
NSA Carolinas Last Story Standing - 3rd Place
A Lever Long Enough
March 14, 2026
3rd place winner in annual Last Story Standing Competition speaking about her personal - very public - burnout experience.

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Tags: Mental Health

1 Speaker Bureau Listing
Innovation Women Speaker Listing
Innovation Women
June 01, 2026
Ruth Pearce, JD, PCC, PMP is a keynote speaker, attorney, and coach whose work sits at the intersection of law, leadership, and the science of character strengths. She burned out publicly in 2016 after years of ignoring the warning signs — and rebuilt her work entirely around what she learned the hard way. She speaks to lawyers, leaders, and organizations about the things that shape a career but rarely get named: humor as a power signal, forgiveness and teamwork as the strengths most depleted under sustained pressure, and self-advocacy as the skill most conspicuously absent in people who advocate for a living. She is the author of two books, creator of five LinkedIn Learning courses, President of Women In Networking (WIN) Durham NC, and a Guardian Ad Litem in North Carolina.

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Tags: Coaching, Future of Work, Mental Health

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