Ruby Johnston, LSW is a trainer and consultant working globally. She has worked extensively in the US and Canada as well as in 38 countries across the globe. Ruby is a former director of the Institute for Human Services in Canada. She lectures, writes, consults and does training in the fields of child protection, leadership, and management, with a specialization in organizational development, organizational behavior, management of large child welfare systems, and trauma-informed care. Ruby and her husband, Lynn, are co-founders of the Global Capacity Building Network, an international training and consulting organization. They have also co-founded several international organizations that serve vulnerable, exploited and orphaned children.  

Ruby is certified as an executive coach with the International Coaching Federation (ICF) as well as in life coaching, emotional intelligence coaching and Neuro linguistics coaching. She is on the executive team for World Without Orphans Global.  

Ruby is an adoptive parent and a former foster parent. She and Lynn have six children, eleven grandchildren and five great-grandchildren.