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Ruth J. Luban
Ruth J. Luban is a counselor, consultant, and author specializing in stress management and career burnout. She received her masters in counseling psychology from Columbia Pacific University. After 20 years of experience working with individuals, corporations, and health care facilities, Luban has spent the past eight years focusing on career burnout and issues related to mid-life transition.
Luban is the author of the nationally received "Burnout: Keeping the Fire" and "101 Ways to Beat Burnout." She has appeared on "Leeza," Lifetime TV's "New Attitudes for Women" and National Public Radio's "All Things Considered," as well as many regional radio programs throughout the U.S. and Canada. Her work has been featured in the Los Angeles Times, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Working Mother, Women in Business, Women's Day, LA Parent, Library Journal, Orange County Register, Kiwanis International, Ladies Home Journal,American Advertising Magazine, Entrepreneur, in-flight magazines, and many other professional publications.
In 1996, Luban developed stress management and burnout prevention programs for lawyers, both online and in person during a seven-city tour presented by the University of California, Berkeley Continuing Education of the California State Bar. Similar corporate programs emphasizing burnout prevention and work-family balance have been developed for Pacific Bell, Motorola, and Hewlett-Packard.
In addition to treating the clinical aspects of exhaustion and burnout, Luban approaches burnout philosophically. She describes it as a "call" from one's "core self", an opportunity to return to one's heartfelt values and priorities as a means of getting back into balance.
